Incinerator Campaign

Durham Environment Watch

Last updated
11/20/2011

Durham Region Plans to Build an Incinerator

If Durham Region has its way, your children’s health could go up in smoke!

Regional Council has voted to build the incinerator.

But the fight is not over - it will go to the Province next
and will continue in next year's election.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP
click here to take ACTION

Also See: INCINERATORS: MYTHS vs. FACTS
from GAIA, April 2010

Download Flyer & Fact Sheet - August 2009

Watch the Noticeboard for new information and "next steps"

Incinerators spew emissions that can cause asthma, cancer, congenital defects and cognitive impairments in children.

That’s why 75 Durham doctors have spoken out against incineration.

Durham Region wants to spend $272 million of your money to build a garbage-burning incinerator in Clarington.

If the Region gets its way, that’ll mean:

• 140,000 tonnes of garbage up in smoke, every day, to start, with plans to increase capacity in future

• At least 77 fully-loaded tractor-trailers on our roads

• Almost a quarter-billion in taxpayer dollars spent on a public-private partnership (P3)

• 68 schools within a ten-kilometer radius of incinerator Ground Zero

Is that the future you want for your children?

There are better ways to manage Durham’s waste stream!

• Expand recycling
• Green Bin programs
• Composting
• More waste diversion

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Contacts for Continued Incinerator fight
now that Durham Region has approved the EA, the Province will have the last say.

We now have a new Minister of the Environment, the Hon. John Wilkinson. It is important NOT TO ASSUME that any information that may have already conveyed to his predecessor has been carried over to him. In addition, if incineration opponents are perceived as "having faded away", this could greatly reduce the effects of past efforts.
Please write to Minister Wilkinson, urging him not to approve the proposed Durham Incinerator.

Using the Postal Service	Using E-Mail
Hon. James Bradley Minister of the Environment 77 Wellesley Street West 11th Floor, Ferguson Block Toronto ON M7A 2T5 Telephone: (416) 314-6790 Fax: (416) 314-7337 (appointed Minister of the Environment in October 2011)	Hon. James Bradley minister.moe@ontario.ca Constituency office: Hon. James Bradley bradley.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org contact from website: Email Form
Gord Miller Environmental Commissioner of Ontario 1075 Bay Street, Suite 605 Toronto, ON M5S 2B1 Canada Tel: (416) 325-3377 Toll-Free: 1-800-701-6454 Fax: (416) 325-3370	Attn: Gord Miller Environmental Commissioner of Ontario commissioner@eco.on.ca
The Regional Municipality of Durham 605 Rossland Road East Whitby, Ontario L1N 6A3 Att’n: Durham Regional Council	Office of the Clerk, Att’n: Durham Regional Council clerks@durham.ca
Municipality of Clarington Municipal Office 40 Temperance Street Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3A6 Att’n: Clarington Municipal Council	Office of the Clerk, Att’n: Clarington Municipal Council clerks@clarington.net