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DON'T GIVE UP!!!
The City's
Case is "Full of Holes"
In its
drive to force the pipeline option, the City has broken many rules:
- The City has
ignored multiple provisions of its own Official Plan, (about 25
of them).
- The City has
ignored provisions of the
Provincial Planning Policy
(see
yellow high-lighted area) - pertaining
to keeping water and wastewater services both communal or
central ---and not mixed.
- The City has
ignored several requirements of the Ontario Municipal Board
Order,
PL990527 - of June 8, 2001.
(Ignoring a stop-work requirement on all pipeline-related work
while the OMB outcome was pending, and ignoring the requirement
to evaluate the health-risk evidence putting a pressurized
sewage forcemain, through a shallow aquifer ...are just two.)
- The City, in
doing so, is knowingly and callously placing its residents, (who
are dependent on the shallow aquifer for their drinking water),
in harms way to the extent that quiet enjoyment of their
properties, their security, their livelihood, and their very
lives would needlessly be put in jeopardy.
- The City has
ignored many of the rules of protocol for Requests for Proposals
(RFPs).
- The City has
knowingly rejected an MOE-approved, tertiary treatment option
for Munster, in order to promote the risky 70-km. transmission
of sewage to a secondary treatment plant that already has the
reputation as being the second-worse polluter of water in
Ontario, and is producing worsening output quality with
each passing year.
- The City has
misrepresented the truth, in giving answers to individuals and
to the public, and has made many false representations in its
arguments for the pipeline, (such as, the declared time-lines for
implementation of the various options, and the MOE requirements
for each ---to name just two.
- The City has
knowingly, and recklessly, proceeded with the most
time-intensive option to implement, knowing full-well that
its violations could lead to injunctive measures, (i.e.: work
stoppage) against the pipeline option, at any time, causing
years-more delays with the pipeline option.
- The City has
acted in bad faith with individuals, proponents, and the public.
- The City, in its
irrational defence of the pipeline, declares that a "benefit for
Richmond" does not have to be shown. However, the City has
refused to consider the "detriment to Richmond" that
would be caused by the many unnecessary negative impacts and
health risks a forcemain would inflict upon residents.
- The City has
ignored taking action to disclose, halt or correct instances
involving numerous conflicts-of-interest in the personal
dealings of specific politicians responsible for forwarding the
pipeline agenda.
- The City has
knowingly proceeded with the most cost-intensive option,
(by a multiple of approximately three to five times), thereby
ignoring its fiduciary responsibility to taxpayers, in light of
a $120,000-million deficit, wherein every single cost-saving
option is supposed to be re-addressed.
- The City has
wasted millions of taxpayers' dollars in misappropriation,
cover-ups, delays and overall mismanagement ---on this project, alone.
- The City has
broken the law.
- ....The list goes
on.
What is
currently being done?
- There is
litigation pending over the RFP irregularities, and other issues.
- There is likely
to be other litigation initiated by a number of groups or
individuals over a number of the City's abuses and deviations.
- Some of the
above non-compliances are presently being pursued in the relevant Provincial
Departments.
- The Richmond
Village Association is looking at all of its options, and will
act accordingly.
What can
you do?
- Make a sign for
your lawn, or phone one of the above numbers for help on how to
obtain a pre-made sign, to put on your lawn.
- Make a home,
or vehicle, window poster for own use:
(Sample
poster, attached, is
formatted for horizontal printing.)
CLICK HERE
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- Register you
discontent with the RVA. We have no assurance that your Comment
Sheet (from the Sept. 23rd Open House), and
your neighbours' Comment Sheets, will ever get published. If the
comments
don't agree with the City's position, they may never reach
public view. Let the RVA know your thoughts on this issue:
E-mail us
- Send duplicate
copies to the RVA, of all of your correspondence with the City.
That way, the City will know that the RVA is aware of your
complaint and you are more likely to get a reply. (Whether they
answer your question, or not, is another matter!)
- Stay informed.
Check this Website often, as more and more residents are doing.
- Ask to be placed
on the email notification list of both this Website and the RVA.
- ATTEND
THE RVA's
PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING, MARCH 8, 2004
AT THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION HALL (6430 Ottawa Street) -
7:00 pm.
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