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The Rob Ortt for state Senate campaign hit the ground running.

Having officially decided to run on Tuesday, and having been given the green light by the GOP on Wednesday, the campaign issued its first policy-related press release Wednesday night opposing the planned expansion at CWM in the Town of Porter.
                                                                                                             
Ortt, receiving incumbent state Sen. George Maziarz' petitions for the Republican line on the September ballot, will face Gia Arnold in the primary for the slot in the general election.

The mayor of North Tonawanda's statement follows:

“Throughout my tenure as mayor of North Tonawanda, we have worked aggressively to restore the environment, turning old brownfields green and removing the harmful and unsightly reminders of the worst abuses that heavy industry dished out to our hometown.  It has been the right course for children and families in NT.  I want nothing but the same for families and kids throughout Western New York.

“I will provide the Department of Environmental Conservation a fuller position statement during the ongoing comment period, but to my neighbors and friends here in Western New York, let me say this: expanding CWM is the wrong course of action, and I am opposed.  The proposed RMU-2 toxic landfill is a bad idea whose time has passed.

“The toxic waste regularly transported to CWM includes anthrax and asbestos and dioxins and PCBs and any number of other alphabet-soup industrial chemicals—all just up the road from a central school with 2,200 kids who represent Western New York’s future.  It’s time for that to change, something the DEC itself has already acknowledged.  
                                                                                                                       
“I will remind the DEC that its own words, in its 2010 Hazardous Waste Siting Plan, were ‘there is no need for additional hazardous waste management facilities or expanded hazardous waste management capacity in New York.’  They should keep their word and reject the proposed RMU-2 landfill and bring the era of Niagara County as New York State’s toxic dumping ground to a close.”

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