Temiskaming Speaker
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
Letter to the Editor
 
Dear Editor:
 
The following is an open letter to the Mayors/Reeves and Councillors of
the Municipalities of the District of Timiskaming.
 
Dear Mayors/Reeves and Councillors:
 
As a resident of Kirkland Lake and the District of Tirniskaming, 1 am
very concerned about the Bennett Environmental Inc.'s proposal to locate
a hazardous waste incinerator within the town limits of Kirkland Lake,
in the District of Temiskaming. I live downwind from and within
one-and-three-quarter miles of the proposed site on Archer Drive.
 
Also, 1 am very disturbed that the citizens are only getting the
positive aspects of this hazardous waste incinerator from Bennett
Environmental Inc., the local media and the Kirkland Lake council.
 
To help disseminate information to the citizens of Kirkland Lake, I
assisted Public Concern Temiskaming (a voluntary organization in
Timiskaming concerned with the impact of the burning of hazardous waste
on the environment and health of its citizens) in the local distribution
of a pamphlet, titled "Do you want a hazardous waste incinerator in
Kirkland Lake?"
 
To ensure that our district does not become the toxic dump of North
America and to protect our food supply and the health of our citizens
for decades to come, it appears that the other councils in Timiskaming
will have to assume the leadership in investigating the hazardous waste
incinerator that the Kirkland Lake council is wholeheartedly, and
without reservation, supporting.
 
Yours truly,
 
Barbara Bukowski
Kirkland Lake Resident