Garbage dump on green mountain road

[sundancer1bc]

Anyone know what's with the two large hills of garbage on green mountain road across from the gravel piles ?

[Queen K]

It's on FN land, they are the "Stewards of the Land." Contact them?

[twobits]

https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton ... -dump-fees

It's not household garbage, it's demolished old buildings. Let's see how many people can connect the dots here? Then throw in "stewards of the land" have no control over "locatee" owners. Conclusion can only be that "stewards of the land" is not a title embraced by all the membership nor controlled by their governance.

[jccamp95]

sorry to bring up old news, but noticed a piece of heavy equipment yesterday working on the piles and Global news out front recording.

[southy]

sorry to bring up old news, but noticed a piece of heavy equipment yesterday working on the piles and Global news out front recording.

Guess you could say they were both digging for a story .

[Anonymous123]

Update:

https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton ... -to-where-

The Penticton Indian Band has released an official statement regarding the work being done on Adam Eneas' locatee land where a mountain of abandoned trash has sat for over a year that has suddenly been moved and potentially buried.

The PIB has authorized sending a cease-and-desist letter to Eneas. Eneas owns the land privately.

[pentona]

Update:

https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton ... -to-where-

The Penticton Indian Band has released an official statement regarding the work being done on Adam Eneas' locatee land where a mountain of abandoned trash has sat for over a year that has suddenly been moved and potentially buried.

The PIB has authorized sending a cease-and-desist letter to Eneas. Eneas owns the land privately.

Most times that we hear of a story where folks are upset about some questionable activity on PIB lands, the defenders blame it on a "locatee" situation where the Band has no power to stop them. Yet, now the Band orders the activity to cease? I thought they had no power over locatees or is that only when they wish to use that as an excuse not to act. About time that the Band council had complete control over its residents, both good and bad.

IF its true (unproven as yet) that Eneas is indeed burying this trash, the ground water in the entire flat land area could be in jeopardy; this would include Skaha Hills development as they get their water from wells near the airport from what I understand. Wasn't Adam Eneas the chief of the band at one time?

[twobits]

What? Stewards of the land could not be doing this???

[Anonymous123]

What? Stewards of the land could not be doing this???

Not the Stewards, the Eneas’s.

[blueliner]

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[Anonymous123]

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[GordonH]

Privately owned garbage dump, not even an actual landfill site. Curious how far out of Penticton is this foolishness happening.

I remember as kid a another dump out of Enderby towards Ashton Creek, every year when Shuswap river would flood. It would flow through the bottom of this dump, nasty.

[pentona]

Interesting update on the plan in place to sort and dispose of the materials in question. Does NOT sound like it was buried at all. You would think, however that Adam Eneas would inform the band before starting work, just as common courtesy.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton ... val#303973

I wonder who will pay (and at what rate) to dispose of the materials in the end. If its the Penticton Landfill, I doubt they will give any discounts; would set a dangerous precident.

[cr125]

[quote="I wonder who will pay (and at what rate) to dispose of the materials in the end. If its the Penticton Landfill, I doubt they will give any discounts; would set a dangerous precident.[/quote]




Ill give you one guess whose paying.

[Brass Monkey]

What? Stewards of the land could not be doing this???

No, but whitewashed natives would