Dresden is an agricultural…

Dresden is an agricultural community in southwestern Ontario, Canada, and is part of the municipality of Chatham-Kent. Dresden is such a BIG part of growing tomaotes, corn and soy bean as well as many other important vegetables that all of Canada will eat.
WHY is it so important to put a landfill garbage dump that can and will become a mega dump because York1 is purchasing even more land from Dresden to Florence instead of feeding the entire province with the fresh vegetables we grown here?
Nobody will want to eat vegetables that have been grown in leachate soil that permeate the root system, let along eat anything that asbestos and dust blown on them during a wind storm.

Dresden as well as this property that York1 now owns is in a flood plain and we get flooding many times per year. What makes anyone think these leachate ponds will never flood into the Molly\s creek or Sydenham river causing catastrophic events that will kill all the endangered and species at risk in this entire area?
The Sydenham River is a huge spawning ground for many fish from perch to walleye. These fish will get contaminated from this dumping ground because nobody can tell us this will never become a mega dump and when these fish make their way to the great lakes, and fishermen catch and eat these fish, people can get seriously ill because they were spawned in a landfill area that spews poision lechate into the water ways.

Ever landfill in Ontario eventually changes to accept more than what they originally proposed to take. York1 is now trying to purchase at least 400 hectacres more, more than they need for just a recycling facility.. You have to ask yourself WHY?
It is because once they get a foothold into Dresden, they will start taking more than what they proposed.

York1 originally proposed this site to be a 10 year facility. However with the amount of land they want to purchase, this will end up in their own words they stated on February 10 2024, "a sustainable facility for another 70 years or more."
York1 will not adhere to their original proposal.
Everyone has seen what the Ridge Landfill has turned out to be, and nobody can live in that area because of this landfill.
York1 wants to open their landfill less than 1 km away from Dresden, homes and schools.
In york1's own words.. this IS a new landfill piggy backing off a 40 year old ERO, for a closed site, so this being a NEW Landfill that was never intended to take the amounts they proposed, the Bill 197 should be allowed to kick in because Bill 197 states no new landfill within a 3.5 km radius from any town, as well city council has to say yes and approve their proposal. This is 500 meters from town.
Chatham Mayor and city council has already stated NO!! .We do not want this here!!!

Dresden is an agricultural community in southwestern Ontario, Canada, and is part of the municipality of Chatham-Kent. It is located on the Sydenham River. The major field crops in the area, by both acreage and production, are grain corn, soybean, and winter wheat.[1] The main horticultural crop is tomatoes, followed by sweet corn and carrots and sugar beets. Dresden is best known as the home of Josiah Henson, an African-Canadian abolitionist and minister whose life-story was an inspiration for the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Henson homestead is a historic site near Dresden operated by the Ontario Heritage Trust.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said that " his government supports allowing municipalities to opt out of landfill proposals in their jurisdictions. " We are not going to stick something in an area that people don't want, “ he said.
Dresden does NOT want this to happen 1 km away from town, because this company’s proposal has deliberately misled the Ontario government on what they can do on this property!!

If York1 gets its way, up to 6,000 tonnes a day of construction and demolition debris – from rubble and metal to wood and non-hazardous contaminated soil – would be trucked to a dormant waste-processing and landfill site near the edge of town for recycling 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The processing area would balloon in size, from just under one hectare (2.5 acres) now to 25 hectares (62 acres), the equivalent of dozens of football fields. Opponents worry about heavy truck traffic, wear and tear on roads, noise and pollution – all of it, a relative stone’s throw from town.

The company also wants to reopen the site’s landfill, taking in up to 365,000 tonnes a year of non-hazardous industrial, commercial, institutional and municipal construction and demolition waste.
Area residents are opposing the project and we have packed 3 public meetings. The municipal council has voted against the proposal 14-0 and the Mayor has written Ontario’s environment minister to underline its opposition. Doug Ford’s government has effectively given municipalities a veto on new landfills.. We veto this!!

With York1 Environmental Waste Solutions seeking provincial go-ahead for its Dresden proposal, some are asking: Why does Southwestern Ontario keep getting dumped on, and what will it take to stop it?
Southwestern Ontario is one of the nation’s richest farm belts and we grow food for all of Ontario, but we cant grown when we have a garbage landfill less than 500 meters from town line. and not far from farm fields, because no food can be grown in an area that has a landfill in it.. See Ridge Landfill. Nobody can grow or sell their produce.. Thats a known fact!!!! Dresden is NOT a willing host to this proposal!!
Only political will at the highest levels can end this region’s trashing of sending Toronto's garbage here to smaller towns!

Chatham Kent and Dresden worry about noise, pollution and heavy truck traffic from the proposed 24/7 operation. Something that big has no business operating less than one km from town, in an area where 2400 people live. We are also concerned about the potential threat to nearby Molly's creek that runs into the Sydenham River, a sanctuary for endangered fish species as well as the safety of our area water and wells.

We need to make sure that our voice is heard by the Ministry of Environment so this unfair landfill expansion does not proceed. Ford government’s sweeping 2020 pandemic recovery law, requiring a council resolution supporting any new landfill from any municipalities within 3.5 kilometers was passed and this proposal should be killed because of Bill 197. This IS a new landfill and we have the right to decline it in Dresden, Chatham Kent and surrounding municipalities.

Why don’t they build (landfills) way up north, where it doesn’t bother anybody??
Half of Ontario’s 16 major active landfills are west of Toronto, mainly in the southwest.
The two largest are the Twin Creeks Landfill in Lambton County and the Ridge Landfill in Chatham-Kent.
Why cant Toronto find a place up North to send their garbage and keep it out of South Western Ontario, because we don't want any more of Toronto's garbage because Toronto certainly does not know how to recycle properly. Toronto needs to start fining those residents who do not recycle and stop sending their garbage west!

Our watershed also supports many other semi-aquatic SAR including amphibians, turtles, Queen snakes, and dragonflies. Some of these species are found nowhere else in Canada or remain in only a few locations globally.
The Sydenham watershed is of global conservation concern for the persistence of these species (such as Fawnsfoot, liliput Rayed Bean mussels, soft shell turtles, and more), only occur in one other location in Canada and persist in only a few locations in North America.
The Salamander Mussel is found nowhere else in Canada and is considered globally vulnerable.
The Northern Riffleshell population in the Sydenham River is one of only three remaining relatively healthy and reproducing populations globally.
Consequently, the Sydenham River is of global significance to the conservation of these species because they are listed nationally or provincially as Species at Risk and include species of global conservation and environmental.

This proposed site is a complete 180 degree turn of what this land was intended for.
This area was only ever used up to1970 as a fly ash dump site, when Dresden was a town, before it was amalgamated with Chatham Kent in 1998.

York1 is taking advantage of a site that had a grandfathered license because It is not an expansion of a dump site, it is a new complete site that would not even fall under Bill 197.
Bill 197 states any new landfill / garbage dump should be 3.5 km away from any residential town
This proposed site is only 1 km away from 2 schools, this quiet residential town of 2900 residents, and that has a rich black history where American slaves escaped to freedom to historic Uncle Tom’s cabin.

Ontario.ca Land Use On or Near Landfills and Dumps: A guide for land use planning authorities on how to decide what types of land uses are appropriate near landfilled waste.
Section 5:4 Where significant impacts are encountered at or beyond 500 meters, the study area within which an assessment for any change in land use is recommended, shall be extended beyond the 500 meters
Areas set out in Section 5.3. “ Historical evidence in Ontario has shown that the maximum distance within which adverse effects could be experienced while a landfill is operating is up to 3 kilometers”

Not only has York1 been lying to this entire town about NOT having a plan, when all you needed to do was a Freedom Of Information request to see they do have a plan.
The plan to open a a landfill on this site is severely flawed to be put on top of large oil and gas pockets.
York 1 has been lying to the province because they have drilled a well 6 meters and found gas pockets that have now damaged the local water wells of neighboring water wells.

The town of Dresden already knows that the V.P of York1 has lied and has done insurance fraud through Aviva Insurance, to a neighbor and Waste Management Recycling Services, leaving them liable for damages if there an accident that had happened, because for 13 months the V.P of York has insured a property they do not even own, so they could transport what they have pulled out and cleaned up from their revised address for Waste Management to transport materials to the Watford Landfill.
If the V.P of York1 acted with such criminal and reckless disregard of their neighbors as well as Waste Management and Recycling Services, how can York1 be trusted they will not further act with criminal disregard towards this property and the residents of Dresden?
York1 has lied to the Province by submitting their proposals in with address for property they never owned and then to insure their project to a property they never owned for over 1 year.

York1 has even said they don't have plans for leachate run off however their plans actually show 2 leachate run offs through their berms directly into a ditch on Irish School RD that is fed by a creek, as well 2 berms flowing directly into Molly's Creek which is a protected green belt that is home to at least 80 endangered and species at risk, and flows less than 1 km into the equally protected Sydenham River.

This town of Dresden understand this Ontario government wants to destroy the environment and dismantle the St Clair Conservation authority by April 1st 2024, to allow big corporations to do whatever they want to ruin the environment, however this project is also less then 1 km away from the Town of Dresden, our residential homes and schools.
The Sydenham River also flows directly into Wallaceburg and Walpole Island Native Reserve and at no time has this government consulted with the local native reserves to get any approvals from them because they hold water right on the Sydenham River.

Why is York1 allowed to ship Toronto's garbage so far? In 2017 the Ontario government passed the Waste Free Ontario Act, the first step in imposing rules that would prevent businesses from shipping garbage to landfills.

This government party unveiled a “Made In Ontario Environment Plan,” which promised municipalities greater say in landfill siting approvals.
That led to Bill 197. Passed in 2020, it required that, prior to commencing an environmental assessment, a landfill proponent obtain a copy of a local municipal council resolution indicating that the council supports the project. If the site is located within 3.5 kilometers of a border with an adjacent municipality, the proponent needs to obtain a separate resolution from that council as well.

The previous owner, when he tried allowing people to dump on this property, he was continually fined by the province because dumping anything was NOT allowed on this property.
NOW York1 seem to think they don't have to abide by laws and they can start to open a NEW landfill less than 1 km from town and an environmentally protected watershed, that is home to so many endangered species that can not be found anywhere else on earth??
Bill 197 states any New Landfill needs to be 3.5 km away from towns and homes and schools.
This is less than 1 km away from homes and schools !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Municipalities should not have landfills imposed on them against the wishes of the local communities !!

This proposal for this site is unconstitutional and unsafe and probably illegal because of the way they have quietly gone about procuring this land without letting Chatham Kent or the province know what their true intentions are.
They purchased 150 more acres of farm land and expect Chatham Kent to rezone from agricultural to industrial for their use when it was never intended for a landfill of that size or any other landfill.

Leachate can contain high levels of ammonia. When ammonia makes its way into ecosystems it is nitrified to produce nitrate. This nitrate can then cause eutrophication, or a lack of oxygen due to increased growth of plant life, in nearby water sources. Eutrophication creates “dead zones” where animals cannot survive due to lack of oxygen. Along with ammonia, leachate contains toxins such as mercury due to the presence of hazardous materials in landfills.
Along with methane, landfills also produce carbon dioxide and water vapor, and trace amounts of oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and non methane organic compounds. These gasses can also contribute to climate change and create smog if left uncontrolled.

Landfill are one of the causes of climate change and major health issues to the public.
Landfill sites are partially responsible for global warming as they generate and release biogas into the atmosphere. Biogas is a mixture formed primarily of methane gas (CH₄) and carbon dioxide (CO₂), two of the gasses that cause climate change and an increase in the planet's temperature. According to the ISWA report, if the current situation continues and we do not take action, landfill sites will account for 14% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.

This project can not happen this close to Dresden, let alone in this ecological paradise where there are so many endangered species already at risk.
Southwestern Ontario has inclement weather with high winds and a lot of rain.
That will flood leachate ponds and overflow into the Sydenham River.
Please don’t let this happen in this part of southwestern Ontario
What this proposal is, will be a new project site that doesn't have proper regulations in place for what York1 intends, so close to our homes, and having it this close to town will only cause death to this town, the people and the environment as well native species of endangered animals and aquatic life.

York has acted mendacious. They have lied to the province, the municipality of Chatham Kent and the residents of Dresden and been involved in Insurance fraud with Aviva Insurance as seen in their own paperwork.
How can they be trusted??
This proposed site boundary lies less than 1 km away from our thriving residential community of Dresden.

We are not even close to a major highway so trucks with high emissions can get to wherever they are selling the recycling parts they claim to deal with. They will have Sorted blue box materials, source-separated organics, asbestos-containing materials, tires, and soil, soil-like materials and excess soil, soil treatment/soil washing system for processing solid and liquid soil to recover sand and aggregate material construction and demolition waste.. 24 hours 7 days a week??? This is unheard of in such a small rural town as we live in.

York1 has taken advantage of an old ECA to a closed property that was never intended for this property to be used as any type of landfill for what they intend to do, especially less than 1 km away from this town.
Dresden demands the province enacts Bill 197 to save this town.
I'm sorry, but these proposals for York1 seems like a No Brainer to NOT allow these proposals to go through on a well known Flood Zone that Dresden Ontario is.
for close to 100 years this entire area of Dresden is known for its famous flooding.
This proposed property is right in a flood zone!!!!

We at Dresden C.A.R.E.D has made this a hot new story that has now been broadcasted all over the world now from British Columbia to New Zealand and Australia.
If this proposal goes through without a FULL environmental Assessment then this government will loose the next election.. There is so much wrong with this proposal, Dresden is NOT the place for this type of facility because its so far off the beaten track and nowhere close to a major highway.
Nobody wants this facility here.. Why shove it down a community's throat when we all have to end up paying for health care when this project goes wrong.. and The Ontario government will end up being sued as well as York1

STOP this DUMP Landfill before it starts PLEASE!!! Because it will become the LARGEST 24 hour 7 days a week landfill garbage dump in all of Canada if York1 has any say in this.