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Men's Fire blocks Biosolids from another area farm continued from front page Two members of the Ab- original Liaison Team were next on the scene. They hud- dled with the Wessuc work- ers and the property owner and an animated conversa- tion took place. The Wes- sue workers then started to pack-up for the day. Heather Manley of the O.P.P's Aboriginal Liai- son Team then approached Hill and told him Wessuc was done for the day, even though they would have liked to apply three more truckloads of sludge on the property. Manley said, "Just so you know there's ongoing discussions and high level meetings going on with the Ministry of the Environ- ment. We acknowledge and respect that both the Elected Chief and the Confederacy has concerns about this is- sue. We're trying to medi- ate this as a go between. We know it is an issue of con- cern. All the other munici- palities are coming together to discuss the issue." The next day, this was news to Elected Chief Bill Montour. "I wish there were high-level talks but all we get is nothing. After the Middleport incident I put Scott Cavan from Mr. Bent- ley's office on notice. I want some information how this can happen . I phoned Brant County administration. They said they had no con- trol over that; the Ministry of the Environment controls it. I phoned an individual in Guelph who was supposed to be handling this and I got no return on that." "So this next incident came over at Burtch. I sent a text to Bentley's office again , saying there has got to be something ~one about this, it 's going to cause some severe problems if,we don ' t. I advise you to get a hold of the Ministry of the Envi- ronment to see what we can do about it . Bruce Lester in Bentley's office in Brantford is trying to scratch around and find some resolution to this. I don't know what is going to happen, I'm wait- ing for him to call me back. I told him we're not going to be supportive of putting this stuff on the Grand River tract." "I grew up on a farm, we used pure manure for fertil- izer for land enrichment. This isn't pure manure, this is a toxic mess of hu- man waste, human disease , toxic cleaning fluids, old medicines , paints , whatever people dump down the sinks Heather Man/,ey (white top) of the O.P.P.'s Aboriginal Liaison Team explains to unhappy Wessuc workers that they must halt spreading sewage sludge on the property. (photo David Sharpe) becomes part of this soup. When you put chemicals to- gether, anyone that has stud- ied chemistry knows there is going t9 be another chemi- cal rea_ction." "We addressed this at the Oxbow (another site where Wessuc spread biosolids on farmland) . This company is still doing it," said Montour. "It's a lot of work for the company, but they created the problem. We're not do- ing this just for Six Nations, but for Caledonia and Ca- yuga, everyone in the Grand Watershed. Our stance is no more dumping. We're here to protect our territory," said Montour. "So they're calling it bio- solids. I think that's just a cover up." Asked about the Men's Fire stopping Wessuc, he said, "I support that."