This consultation was open from:
March 12, 2025
to April 26, 2025
Decision summary
This proposal is granted for amending ECA No. A-500-6236321199 issued to EVSX Corporation, for a waste transfer and processing site.
Location details
Site address
100 Hayes Road
Thorold,
ON
Canada
Site location map
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EVSX Corp.
100 Hayes Road
Thorold,
ON
L0S 1A0
Canada
Decision details
This proposal is granted for amending ECA No. A-500-6236321199 issued to EVSX Corporation, for a waste transfer and processing site approved for the receipt, transfer and processing of waste alkaline and zinc carbon batteries, to expand the authorized battery chemistries to now include lithium primaries, lithium, nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride and other battery chemistries for the installed battery processing facility (the “facility”) at 100 Hayes Road in the City of Thorold, Ontario.
The approval includes changing the total amount of waste and processed materials stored at the site to 480 tonnes at any time, changing the service area to Canada and USA and amending the hours of operation to 7:00 - 19:00 Monday to Saturday.
Effects of consultation
The city of Thorold provided comments in a letter dated April 30, 2025 and according to the city's position, the proposed operations, waste disposal site or recycling facility, is not a permitted use in the general industrial designation in the official plan in the M2 zone.
Response:
The zoning approval rests with the local municipal authority and not the ministry.
Public Comments
There was no comment received from the public in response to the posting.
Supporting materials
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135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
How to Appeal
This instrument decision can be appealed. You have 15 days from May 6, 2025 to begin the appeal process.
Carefully review the information below to learn more about the appeal process.
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Start the process to appeal
If you’re an Ontario resident, you can start the process to appeal this instrument decision.
First, you’ll need to seek leave (i.e. get permission) from the relevant appellate body to appeal the decision.
If the appellate body grants leave, the appeal itself will follow.
Seek leave to appeal
To seek leave to appeal, you need to do these three things:
- prepare your application
- provide notice to the minister
- mail your application to three parties
1. Prepare your application
You’ll need to prepare an application. You may wish to include the following things in your application:
- A document that includes:
- your name, phone number, fax number (if any), and/or email address
- the ERO number and ministry reference number (located on this page)
- a statement about whether you are a resident in Ontario
- your interest in the decision, and any facts you want taken into account in deciding whether you have an interest in the decision
- the parts of the instrument that you’re challenging
- whether the decision could result in significant harm to the environment
- the reason(s) why you believe that no reasonable person – having regard to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind – could have made the decision
- the grounds (facts) you’ll be using to appeal
- the outcome you’d like to see
- A copy of the instrument (approval, permit, order) that you you are seeking leave to appeal. You’ll find this in the decision notice on the Environmental Registry
- Copies of all supporting documents, facts and evidence that you’ll be using to appeal
What is considered
The appeal body will consider the following two questions in deciding whether to grant you leave to appeal:
- is there is good reason to believe that no reasonable person, with respect to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind, could have made the decision?
- could the decision you wish to appeal result in significant harm to the environment?
2. Provide your notice
You’ll need to provide notice to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks that you’re seeking leave to appeal.
In your notice, please include a brief description of the:
- decision that you wish to appeal
- grounds for granting leave to appeal
You can provide notice by email at minister.mecp@ontario.ca or by mail at:
College Park 5th Floor, 777 Bay St.
Toronto, ON
M7A 2J3
3. Mail your application
You’ll need to mail your application that you prepared in step #1 to each of these three parties:
- appellate body
- issuing authority (the ministry official who issued the instrument)
- proponent (the company or individual to whom the instrument was issued)
EVSX Corp.
100 Hayes Road
Thorold,
ON
L0S 1A0
Canada
Registrar, Ontario Land Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca
Include the following:
This is not legal advice. Please refer to the Environmental Bill of Rights for exact legal requirements. Consult a lawyer if you need help with the appeal process.
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Client Services and Permissions Branch
135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
Original proposal
Proposal details
This proposal is for an amendment to ECA No. A-500-6236321199 issued to EVSX Corporation, a waste transfer and processing site approved for the receipt, transfer and processing of waste alkaline and zinc carbon batteries, to expand the authorized battery chemistries to now include lithium primaries, lithium, nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride and other battery chemistries for the installed battery processing facility (the “facility”) at 100 Hayes Road in the City of Thorold, Ontario, with a total site area of 0.36 hectares.
The proposal includes changes to the total processing capacity of waste from 12 tonnes per day to 24 tonnes per day and changing the total amount of waste and processed materials stored at the site from 350 tonnes to 480 tonnes at any time, changing the service area to Canada and USA and amending the hours of operation to 7:00 - 19:00 Monday to Saturday.
Supporting materials
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Some supporting materials may not be available online. If this is the case, you can request to view the materials in person.
Get in touch with the office listed below to find out if materials are available.
135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
Comment
Commenting is now closed.
This consultation was open from March 12, 2025
to April 26, 2025
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Client Services and Permissions Branch
135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
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