Hamilton had a secret now says trust me…really!

The City of Hamilton says it plans to move to the courts to block the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs intervention in the clean-up of the Chedoke Creek. You remember that. The city hid the fact that it had been spilling sewage into the Chedoke Creek for, four years. Dubbed “Sewergate” the Hamilton Spectator spilled the beans on the city telling the public the city had spilled over 24-billion litres of sewage into the creek and then worked diligently over four years to keep the secret. The city was fined and the Ministry of Environment ordered a clean up. A $6 million dredging project was to get underway in 2021 but was delayed to 2022. The city began its work forgetting one other little factor. They didn’t consult with Indigenous people who…

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