The protesters at the site 41 landfill have taken their demonstration up a notch.
More than 50 Native Canadian protesters have now blocked the entrance to the construction site.
Anishinabe Kweag spokesperson Vicki Monague says the protesters allowed the security guard working at the site to get out earlier this morning before the blockade was set up.
But she says as of 5 AM, no more trucks or workers will be allowed into the site until the federal government becomes involved in the ongoing battle over whether the land will become a landfill.
Monague says this is their reaction to the lack of reaction from the Federal government to their protests.
The protestors have now been across from Site 41 for 64 days, but Monague says they haven’t received the action they want from Ottawa that they want.
She says the blockade is still peaceful, and that they have a constitutional right to exercise their beliefs and pray wherever they deem is necessary.
Monague hopes the blockade will put a stop to the landfill, and says they won’t be leaving until the dump is stopped permanently.
The Manager of Waste Services for Simcoe County, Rob McCullough says excavation work is continuing inside the site today, with some workers coming in through a separate entrance.
The site is slated to take its first truck full of garbage in the fall.