Today is the last day to…

Today is the last day to submit a comment for this ERO and as I write this I am sick to my stomach not knowing what the future holds for myself and my family. I moved to Dresden 5 years ago for a better life, a quiet life. After growing up in Hamilton I knew that I didn’t want to raise a family in a big city. Moving to Dresden was a dream come true. This is the kind of town where you can walk down the street and always see someone you know. Even if you don’t know them they wave and say hello anyways. Kids can ride their bikes down the road and go fishing in the river that runs through our town. I can leave the house and not worry if I forgot to lock my house. Neighbours are always looking out for eachother and it’s just not the type of place where bad things happen. But bad things are going to happen here if this environmental assessment is removed and the landfill goes in. There is either going to be a love canal or Wheatley situation. I moved here to get away from the bad stuff. The pollution and the crime. And now here in my safe place you are going to bring that here and we have no say in this. Even if I wanted to leave I couldn’t because who will buy our house. Who would willingly move beside a dump and risk their life after all the evidence we have on landfills. Sure my house might sell for something but I won’t get anything close to the real value of it. So each day I go for a walk through the cemetery because it’s quiet and peaceful and I think to myself that this is where I am going to be soon. The only real estate we will be able to afford is death if this goes in. I wonder what will kill is first. The toxins or the explosion that is going to happen. Who is going to be responsible for all the hell that will break loose. Have you factored that into your budget? The deaths, the lawsuits, all of it. At the very least this town deserves the environmental assessment that we fought for and earned. If you think this dump is such a good idea then why can’t you play fair and just give us the assessment we deserve. If it is so easy to bypass all of the rules and can just put a dump anywhere then why isn’t it going beside Toronto where the garbage is coming from? It’s plain and simple. Do. The. Right. Thing.