Since January 2024 local…

Since January 2024 local citizens have been fighting the expansion of a long closed landfill, which more recently was a bomb disposal area and firing range for the Chatham-Kent Police, unless there is a thorough Environmental Assessment to ensure no toxic chemicals will seep into an adjoining creek. The creek flows into the Sydenham River, which flows into Lake St Clair and the Great Lakes which supply so many Ontarians their drinking water.

During the October 2024 by-election, while campaigning for the PC candidate, Doug Ford promised he would kill the dump if that's what people wanted. Six months later, the promise was broken: Bill 5 cancels the promised Environmental Assessment. Doug Ford said Ontario can't continue to rely on shipping waste to Michigan, Ohio and New York. Entirely coincidentally, this came after the landfill owners gave hefty donations to the PC Party.