Please do not remove the…

Please do not remove the environmental assessment for this proposal or any other projects in Ontario because you need to know the damages and health issues that will happen if this proposal goes through
Ontario health care costs will balloon because of the toxins and poisons that will be released into this community and downriver to the First Nations of Walpole Island.

This company who put in this proposal has not been totally upfront with the Ontario Government and has many issues in their proposals for this landfill / dump that requires more investigations.
We have reviewed their proposal and it is riddled with false statements and mistruths !
All you need to do is read the 534 pages of evidence they provided to the government.

This property has NEVER had an environmental assessment in over 40 ++ years!!
You do not know the damage this dump/ landfill will have on this 200 year old historic town of Dresden.
This project is now 500 meters from our homes, schools and businesses and the ecological Paradise of the Sydenham River.
The southwestern Council of Chiefs and the Native Reserve of Walpole Island also does not want this dump here not do 3 other close municipalities.
This dump will detrimental to 2700 people as well as this entire town!!
Under Bill 197, and bill 201- WE are unwilling hosts communities.
Please do not revoke this already approved Environmental Assessment for this project.
We already have 2 large waste facilities on our communities at Watford and Ridge and we do not want a larger one this close to our community
This proposal states Reestablishment and expansion of a waste transfer and processing station at the approved site for receiving, storing and processing up to 6,000 tonnes per day of solid, non-hazardous waste, including blue box waste, construction and demolition waste, tires, asbestos, excess soil washing and organic waste.. but isn't Asbestos tires and silica dust hazardous waste?
.. And You don't wash clean soil. The soil will be full of contaminates.
Asbestos and organic waste was has never been accepted at this location as it only accepted 95 % fly ash and 5% wood and bricks

IF The ministry of Environment already knows and have heard the concerns and comments of the hundreds of people of Dresden and surrounding area, about this company's proposal to start receiving waste at a local landfill site that has not been in operation since the 1980s.

WHY are we having to do comments again after hundreds of people already provided comments to the last 2 proposals in record numbers last year ???
Also, IF you already know that an environmental assessment has never been completed for this site, because the landfill predates Ontario’s environmental assessment requirements for landfills and the minister of environment recognizes the potential impact that a landfill of this size could have on the local residents and the surrounding environment on a 24 /7 basis, WHY do you not proceed with a full environmental Assessment??

In response to the significant public interest in the proposed project and the environmental concerns raised, in particular regarding potential impacts to species at risk, groundwater, surface water, increased truck traffic, odor, and other potential impacts to the local community, why are you seeking more comments on this proposal for a regulation that would, if made, require this company to complete a comprehensive environmental assessment process for the project.??
Please, Just do a full environmental Assessment now!

If you already know By requiring a comprehensive environmental assessment process for the project, additional opportunities for consultation with Indigenous communities and the public would also be provided, why do you require more comments when you have already received a couple of thousand responded comments??
This proposal and facility should NOT happen because by now Bill 197 should have been enforced because this proposal is LESS than 500 meters from their southern border to the town of Dresden and lays in a FLOOD Plain zone.

This entire area gets flooded at least 2 or 3 times per year and will cause much destruction to the environment and the town of Dresden, as well the communities west of this town that also resides along the Sydenham River including the First Nations of Walpole Island.
We did not re elect this government to have our rights trampled over and ignored !

This proposal states "Re-establishing landfill operations, including construction of a new landfill cell"
if this NEW landfill then bill 197 should be enacted now because the proposal and this company and states this is a NEW Landfill. also Bill 201 says an environmental assessment is required.

This property has never been set up to receive 6000 Tonnes per day as it only accepted fly ash previous 50 years ago.
This company is piggy backing off and old outdated 40 year old ERO number that should never happen. because this was a closed site.
Our Chatham Kent city council, Dawn Euphemia, Lambton County and Sarnia are ALL against this proposal so bill 197 should be enforced by this governments own rules regarding new landfills.
this company has outright claimed falsities in the words of their proposals and have also done fraud against an insurance company and the province of Ontario if you read this company's own paperwork.
Its all there in there in their 534 page report to the ministry.

Why is this small community being railroaded into something we don't want when even the Premier of Ontario stated on March 6 2024 "if the people don't want something, we don't do it. It's that simple" He stated that on the Windsor Ontario CTV news last year.

Nobody wants this less than 500 meters away from our town. It will be the end of agriculture in this region and of our towns.

This agriculture region feeds Ontario and Canada. Do you propose to feed contaminated poison vegetables to Ontario when this area floods and the leachate ponds overflow adding to the flooding on fields and into the spawning grounds of fish and wildlife habitat?.

It will also wipe out the endangered and species at risk in this area and also down river.

It will poison the water wells in this area too.
IF this government has already heard the thousands of negative comments and concerns raised by the local community and municipality regarding the proposed "reestablishment of this 50 year closed landfill operations and the reestablishment and expansion of waste transfer / processing operations at the site.

We do not want you removing environmental assessment requirements for for this property no matter who owns it !!
WHY are the residents and people of Ontario needing to make even more comments before you act and issue a FULL environmental Assessment Again, because the big donors donated even more money?

This doesn't make sense to anyone and we all feel this government does not care about the taxpaying citizens that re elected in this government.

We already fought for a full E.A last year and we were successful because this property has NEVER had an environmental assessment ever done EVER..
You must do an E.A because you do not know the damage this project will cause the people, this town or the environment.
Our health is at risk !!! Our livelihood is at risk.
Our children's future is at risk! Our home values are at risk.

Where do you expect 2800 people to go when this town is being forced to move because this government refuses to live up to their own laws?

Among the hundreds of issues and comments raised were concerns about potential impacts to species at risk, groundwater, surface water, increased truck traffic, odour, and other potential impacts to the local community.

Why are you wanting to revoke an Assessment that has already been ordered last year?
Trump's Tariffs are really not the reason. because there are no tariffs on waste,

If you do not want to enforce environmental assessments anywhere in Ontario, then this site could be moved anywhere else in Ontario that is better suited and away from people that would not affect 2800 taxpayers.
THIS Project is 500 METERS AND TOO CLOSE to this town!!!

WE do not understand why this government is not hearing the people when they are telling you the issues we have found in this company's proposal that will be detrimental to this entire community.??

We grown tomato's, corn, soy Bean and this area floods regularly,

A FULL environmental Assessment MUST be done or please enact BILL 197 because this is a NEW landfill and is less than 500 meters from our town!!

This is absurd to put this type of facility anywhere near and so close to this town in a prime agriculture region
Please put a STOP to allowing this proposal to go through because you should not remove an already approved Environmental Assessment for this project because it will prove this is not the location for this type of facility.