North Bay DUMPS Cortina Landfill Plan

     Earthworks (v.ewk Canadian Stock Exchange) sole business and subsidiary is Cortina Integrated Waste Mgmt. Inc. In 2007, Ratto Groups> subsidiary North Bay subsidiary >Cortina Landfill Company took over the reins to see the plan to approval for the purpose of hauling and dumping loose garbage into the canyons of the Cortina Indian Rancheria. Earthworks entered into an agreement in 1995 with the tribe for the purpose of providing tribal members jobs in the  recycling industry.  The tribe was promised economic development and better living conditions (ie houseing, access to healthcare and education). 

Indian families have lived on the remote-oak filled hills of their rancheria since time began.  The leased area for the proposed toxic waste landfill lies within the Sacramento Valley Basin watershed which raises significant public health and environmental safety issues if allowed.

Cortina/North Bay Agreement Terminated

December 29, 2009

Earthworks Industries Inc. (the “Company”) has received notice from North Bay Corporation of Santa Rosa, California that it will not maintain or exercise its option to acquire 50% of the issued shares of the Company’s subsidiary, Cortina Integrated Waste Management Inc. (“CIWM”), nor continue funding CIWM’s development of its waste management facility in Colusa County, California. The deadline for the exercise of the option is December 31, 2009. As a result, the Company will continue with the development of the project, through CIWM, without any further involvement of North Bay.

Pursuant to the terms of existing agreements between the Company and North Bay the approximately $4,000,000 which has been advanced by North Bay to fund the development of the Project will be repayable by CIWM to North Bay, together with 7% P/A non-compounded interest, by December 23, 2011.

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Proposed Cortina Landfill Courtesy Update

Mon, September 15, 2008

On September 10th, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 9 received two site-specific flexibility requests from the Cortina Band of Wintun Indians for the proposed Cortina Integrated Waste Management Facility.  The two site-specific flexibility requests received include a request for Alternative Boundary/ Point of Compliance for Groundwater Monitoring, and for Alternative Daily Cover.  We also received the Cortina Band’s approval of these requests.

EPA will review the documents using the EPA Draft Guidance “Site-Specific Flexibility Requests for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills in Indian Country” (EPA530-R-97-016) for compliance with the federal municipal solid waste landfill requirements found in 40 CFR Part 258.  Once EPA has reached a tentative decision, EPA will publish a notice in the Federal Register requesting public comment and will hold a public hearing.  

For more information about the Site-Specific Flexibility Request Process, please contact Heather White (white.heather@epa.gov) or see the "Site-Specific Flexibility Requests for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills in Indian Country" draft guidance document at:
http://www.epa.gov/garbage/landfill/indian/siteflex.htm

If you did not receive the original email directly but would like to be added to the list of contacts for future project updates, please send an email to white.heather@epa.gov

Thank you,

Heather White
Supervisor, Tribal Solid Waste Team
Office of Pollution Prevention and Solid Waste
U.S. EPA, Region 9
75 Hawthorne Street (WST-7)
San Francisco, CA 94105
Direct:  (415) 972-3384

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CANADIAN Company plans to build  TOXIC MEGA-LANDFILL- on  Cortina Indian Rancheriain US!!! Earthwork Inc. refers to this as a "cookie cutter" for future profitable landfill projects to be located on US Indian Trustlands! 

Off-Reservation impacts created by the Cortina Landfill project 'will ultimately impact an entire region's water supply!'  Proposed Cortina Landfill is to be located at the headwaters of Cortina Creek with potential to contaminate both ground and surface water. 

 Video showing rainwater traveling down into the Sacramento River from Cortina Rancheria after an average winter storm:   Click Video

Although landfill plan has promised  to be 'functionally equivalent' to California Environmental Protection Agency (CAL/EPA), TheWintun Environmental Protection Agency (WEPA) will have  oversite of this project since the developers have not (yet) invited CAL/EPA on board!!!

Cortina Integrated Waste Management, Inc or CIWM,Inc is owned by Canadian 'Earthworks Industries', traded on the Canadian Stock Exchange (symbol v.ewk).

Cortina Landfill Plan----- a...

    "Ticking Time Bomb"?

USEPA admits that

LANDFILL LINERS LEAK

LOCATION

LOCATION

Stormwater and Leachate Ponds are to be located at the base of the garbage filled canyons within 200 feet of an active Earthquake fault.

The Cortina Rancheria was established in 1907 by the US Government.  The rancheria is located upon the bands ancestral sacred land (first recorded in the 1840's) and is one of the many "postage stamp" sized rancherias. established in California. near the turn of the 20th century. 

 Presently, there is a proposal 'on the table' for a Canadian based company to  lease  2/3 of the Indian's homeland and turn it into a MEGA-LANDFILL!  Since the project will be located on Indian Soveriegn Land, apparently it will not require developers to comply with stringent State and Local permitting, monitoring and enforcement regulations... this makes for cheaper dumping and MEGA-PROFITS for the

Non-Indian private landfill company and/or haulers. 

For the rancheria residents and you, the citizen, this makes for a high risk to  public safety and our environmental health and economic stability. There are unanswered questions regarding who will be held accountable. 

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???AND, the liability will ultimately fall to whom???