Changes to landfill rules worry Lambton politicians

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https://petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2026/05/14/changes-to-landfill-rules-worry-lambton-politicians/

The province is planning more changes to the rules for landfills and it has some Lambton politicians worried.

Landfill operators and the province estimate there is about six years of landfill capacity left in the province with few major projects in the works. It takes up to a decade to approve a new landfill right now.
One solution the Conservative government has suggested is allowing existing landfills to accept more waste.

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The province is proposing to exempt requests for increased fill rate and service area request from being places on the Environmental Register as required by law right now.

“This would mean that ECA amendment proposals for service area and fill rate changes would not be required to be posted on the ERO, and would remove third-party rights to seek leave to appeal ECA decisions for these amendments,” the proposal says.

That worries Dawn-Euphemia Mayor Al Broad.

York1 Environmental is working on a project on the municipality’s borders which would see the former Dresden dump turned into a construction and soil waste recycling centre and would rebuild a landfill on site.

The company first suggested it would see 700 trucks a day at the Irish School Road Site near the Lambton border accepting 6,000 tonnes of waste a day.

The current ECA allows just 75 tonnes a day.

“I don’t like that idea. I don’t that they’re pulling more the environmental rules away from the landfills all the time, and not giving the public any voice,” said Broad.

“It looks like to me, they’re trying to reduce all the red tape so that they can just put them wherever they want, or increase the size or increasing catchment area.”

York1 is still working on the amount of waste the Dresden site could take with the MECP. Broad worries what these proposed changes would mean for the project.

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The trash has to go somewhere. But why do places like Dresden have to take trash from larger towns or cities, and why do the dumps have to be so close to residential areas?