Dear Minister & Staff at the…

Dear Minister & Staff at the Ministry of the Environment,

We are once again having to write in to your ministry in the hopes that a Preferred Proponent, with Fines in toe, whose company collection of executives and their entire families whose campaign contributions appear to have granted them this special status with the Premiere, to such great affect as to be able to over ride all laws.

1 year ago in person & on tv, York 1 stated the items leaving the site would be Sold to the U.S market as a beneficially recycled aggregates, tires & asphalt shingling for U.S road construction. The Construction debris would be turned into mulch for commercial sale to the U.S Market, in addition to bringing Asbestos to a non asbestos approved site.. They would in effect, be leaving all the horrible stuff in our Historic Black Town, turning it into an unlivable smelling, poisoned community.
The Sydenham River which will be poisoned by direct discharge from this project, has been used since 1801 as a Baptismal spot. The first free black baby was baptized in this river, and the waters have continually been used in the Dresden Baptist Church.

The collection of other facilities already owned by the proponent, as advertised on their website ( Stratford, Barrie, Birthbridge rd Toronto, etc), including their existing waste contracts at Watford & Ridge landfills under york 1 in addition to the 4 other waste transport companies they operate, coupled with George Kirchmir's words "this is a convenient location to access U.S Markets, illustrate a pattern of victimization of rural towns, a pattern of looking for dormant municipal dumps, attempting to sneak in without consultation, without doing the necessary safety steps required by law & then racking up fines when they are caught doing the wrong thing..

The Legislative minimum safe distance from projects like this (3.5k) in addition to the EA & EPA are set in place to ensure human health and safety. The premier's inability to coherently explain why this corner of Ontario has been singled out to be a sacrifice zone to heavy industrial polluters.
The systemic poisoning of our waterways from the upstream Chemical Alley including the 10 x higher than Globally Acceptable Benzine Discharges disproportionately affecting 1st nations communities in the immediate area & downstream, shows a pattern of Environmental Racisms.

Preferential treatment for this proponent, that causes a removes all regulation on this wetland / floodplain in a town that has experienced town wide flooding every 20- 40 yrs, seasonal flooding that inundates our back yards by 10 - 12 ft river level rises is the wider areas of the river, 15 - 25 ft in narrower sections. The systemwide contamination of our downstream properties would render our yards toxic.. Soil washing waste and leachate would coat our yards.

In reading the October 28 2022 ltr from the mecp to york 1, i gave us confidence that the ministry staff was doing the right thing, today we are again appealing to the ministry, staff, our elected officials to do the right thing. Do not remove the rigorous E.A. process from this site. It is our only hope that through this process science prevails, to protect human life, culture, agricultural biosecurity, food manufacturing jobs in our town, and the many international organic soybean contracts our farmers grow on the adjacent fields.

In closing, i thought i'd mention, Molly Blakesley, who Molly's creek is named after, is sited in Christian Dankey's diary, as the first Cleared farmland and source of fresh water long before its current name. He describes a lost 1st nation's village of Kitigan (garden) along with hunting grounds, sugar bushes, etc. in his travels with Moravian Missionaries. Molly, she lived around 1850's and inspired the Molly's Women's Institute, which carried on into the 1970's. It taught women about safe birthing, rural strategies for survival, etc.
Arrow heads spanning more than 1000 yrs have been found in and around the creek and surrounding lands of the proposed project.. This is a part of our shared human history which needs to be protected along & shared through the continued work of ppl like Marie Carter and other historians & archeologists, to enable more tourism opportunities that support rural communities.

This project does damage to every sector of our local economy, the cultural fabric of what makes us who we are as a nation, removes our voices of objection while placing us in economic ruin.. Landfill Stigma is real.. our home values have dropped by $200k and not selling, will loose us millions in foreign agricultural contracts.. and this is only the beginning of the nightmare for our community..
Please don't let known bad actor get another win at our cost..