By The Canadian Press
TORONTO - Environmental activist and former U.S. presidential candidate Ralph Nader is appealing to Ontario's premier to halt construction on site 41, a controversial landfill project.
In a passionate letter to Dalton McGuinty dated today, Nader says he was surprised at the vehement local uproar against the dump being constructed about 40 kilometres northwest of Barrie, Ont.
Nader, who paid a surprise visit to the site last week, asks McGuinty not to rush to ram "putrid waste" atop the Alliston aquifer, which is said to house the most pristine source of groundwater in the world.
McGuinty has stood by the site's construction, saying he believes experts who claim the aquifer won't be contaminated.
Opposition over the site's construction flared this summer after the Ministry of the Environment allowed excavation work to begin in earnest.
Simcoe County says the site is desperately needed since the area has had no local trash disposal options since the 1980s.
TORONTO - Environmental activist and former U.S. presidential candidate Ralph Nader is appealing to Ontario's premier to halt construction on site 41, a controversial landfill project.
In a passionate letter to Dalton McGuinty dated today, Nader says he was surprised at the vehement local uproar against the dump being constructed about 40 kilometres northwest of Barrie, Ont.
Nader, who paid a surprise visit to the site last week, asks McGuinty not to rush to ram "putrid waste" atop the Alliston aquifer, which is said to house the most pristine source of groundwater in the world.
McGuinty has stood by the site's construction, saying he believes experts who claim the aquifer won't be contaminated.
Opposition over the site's construction flared this summer after the Ministry of the Environment allowed excavation work to begin in earnest.
Simcoe County says the site is desperately needed since the area has had no local trash disposal options since the 1980s.
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