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Save Our Watershed - Clean Up Arlington Heights!
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⚠️ WE'RE AS STEAMED AS ARLINGTON'S AUTOFLUFF ON FIRE AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! ⚠️
A toxic and unlawful landfill has been degrading our Bay of Fundy communities - land, water and air - for too long! Please help us hold those responsible accountable and get this mess cleaned up.
***Funds to be used for our "Fess Up & Clean Up" awareness campaign for things like lawn signs and ads.***
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Nova Scotia Department of Environment has failed us repeatedly. Annapolis County Council has barely been able to help. Most of our MLA'S have been MIA. The feds say it's a provincial issue. And the vicious circle circles...
Arlington Heights C&D Landfill was built at the apex of three watersheds that have provided pristine drinking water and supported livestock and gardening installations for communities immediately downslope for centuries. Four brooks from the wetland lead directly into the Bay of Fundy.
Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change (NSECC) admits an Environmental Assessment was "overlooked" when the site was originally approved. The truth is, a lot more than that has been overlooked.
The department has not been forthcoming, as is demonstrated over the years by dozens of misleading letters, multiple denied requests to meet, insults, and a massive, disorganized (and not free) Freedom of Information request.
NSECC has not followed its own rules and has failed to protect this vitally important wetland environment. Because due diligence was not done at the outset, multiple expansion and other approvals have been allowed that never should have been.
Had NSECC performed community consultation, or listened to citizens' repeated concerns or historical knowledge of the area, this environmental disaster could have been avoided.
Instead, our watershed has been all but destroyed - clearcut, bulldozed, and stuffed full of millions of tons of Halifax Regional Municipality's asbestos and toxic auto shredder residue (ASR, aka Autofluff) - and all without the proper environmental protection in place (it's a generation one, primitive, unlined landfill). ASR is a known carcinogen and is highly susceptible to spontaneous combustion. This dump has had underground fires more than once, one of them burning for a period of at least a year. There were no warnings about the toxic smoke. ☠️
We know the repeated mantra of "impermeable soil" that both the dump and the department tried to sell us is false.
THEIR OWN TESTING PROVED THE PRESENCE OF HIGHLY CONTAMINATED LEACHATE BEYOND DUMP PROPERTY!
The answer is clear: It's time to stop this insanity once and for all and CLEAN UP ARLINGTON HEIGHTS!
#FessUpAndCleanUpArlingtonHeights #ShutItDownCleanItUp
#AnnapolisCounty #NorthMountain #IllegalDumping #FailureToEnforce #DestroyedWetland #Watershed #DrinkingWater #Asbestos #AutoShredderResidue #ToxicLeachate #Remediate #Accountability #EnvironmentalJustice #NovaScotia
