One Saugeen First Nation resident believes Chief Randall Kahgee and the band council, should be cleaning up their own backyard before looking at one in the Hanover-Walkerton area.
Natalka Pucan tells Bayshore Broadcasting News that it’s about time the band council started addressing the problems with the First Nation landfill site.
Pucan, an elementary school teacher, says the site is filling up and more disconcerting is that she believes someone starts a fire at the dump at least once a week.
She says it’s alright to point fingers at a landfill expansion in the Walkerton-Hanover area because it’s native land, but nothing’s being done to solve the problem in their own backyard.
Pucan says she has informed the Ministry of Environment and has talked to band council members but nothing is being done.
In addition, Pucan says she’s concerned about what appears to be the indiscriminate bull-dozing of sand dunes on leased land in Sauble Beach.
She says in the public portion of the beach the sand dunes are returning and so is wildlife and it’s being protected.
Pucan suggests the opposite is happening in south Sauble Beach near the Trading Post outlet where a land-owner has apparently been destroying the dunes.