It is now 2019. The cleanup has been completed and the Tar Ponds site, open to the public since 2013, now houses a playground, walking track, sports field, outdoor concert stage and many other features. Some residents however still feel that the encapsulated toxins still lurk a few feet down and may someday emerge as they did in the infamous Love Canal in NY State near Niagara Falls in the late 1970s. On Sept 12 2014, Aerosmith played at Open Hearth Park and some patrons paid money to camp at the former Coke Ovens site - how quickly we forget! |
Michelle Moore of Watertable.ca interviews Debbie Ouellette
2019
Sydney woman takes on two levels of government and wins (CB Post: Dec 20/18)
2018
Sydney woman scores partial win for compensation (CB Post: Apr 22/16)2016
Sydney woman pursuing tar ponds lawsuit (CB Post: Sep 18/15)2015
Nameless road could have future (Herald: June 13/14)2014
Bike park remembers work of Sydney brothers (CB Post: Nov 22/13)2013
Parks promote physical activity (CB Post: Aug. 14/12)2012
Consultant calls for oval twin on tar ponds site (CB Post: Dec. 22/11)2011
Unionized workers disrupt work at tar ponds site (CB Post: Dec.20/10)2010
Tar ponds contract behind schedule (CB Post: Dec. 9/09)
Time from data gathering to action needs to be sharply reduced (CB Post: Nov. 28/09)
Tar pond emissions a health hazard (CB Post: Nov. 21/09)
Important step in tar ponds cleanup officially begins (CB Post: Nov. 20/09)
Tar ponds project still plagued by slow and inadequate communications (CB Post: Nov. 6/09)
Plans being laid for future use of tar ponds sites (CB Post: Oct. 24/09)
It's time for the NDP to show its difference on openness to public (CB Post: Oct. 23/09)
Cleanup to begin shortly despite possible flaw in water diversion design (ScotiaWeb.ca: Oct. 8/09)
Tar ponds by the numbers (CB Post: Oct. 10/09)
Tar ponds almost ready for the big cleanup job (CB Post: Oct. 8/09)
Residents say tar ponds meetings aren't conducive to public input (CB Post: Oct. 8/09)
Work halted at former steel plant site (CB Post: Sept. 25/09)
Smell in Whitney Pier traced to cleanup of former Sysco site (CB Post: Sept. 24/09)
Aboriginal company awarded contract for material processing facility(CB Post: Sept. 23/09)
Pollution hazard underplayed (CB Post: Sept. 14/09)
Sydney Tar Ponds Coffer Dam and Wash Brook flooding issues (Scotiaweb.ca: Sept. 3/09)
The Pitfalls of the Tar Ponds Cleanup (Blog Entry by Justin Ling: Sept. 1/09)
Cleanup protective measures still insufficient (CB Post: Sept. 1/09)
2009
Finally it's time for the tar ponds (CB Post: Dec.27/08)2008
Wanted: Real cleanup, not a coverup for tar ponds (Herald: Dec. 18/07)2007
Decision on cleanup delayed until January (CB Post: Dec. 21)
2006
Cofferdam to control dirty water (CB Post: Nov. 24)2005
Keep review in-house, says councillor (Herald Dec. 28)
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G. Fred Lee on Solidification/Stabilization Sierra Club Resource Page - Tar Ponds Panel Review See Panel media articles (highlighted in green below) Tar Ponds Local Knowledge Study(PDF: 402k) |
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