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Heather Wright/The Independent © York1 Environmental Waste Solutions has sold its stake in the former Dresden dump. But, there is still a connection to the new owners of the derelict landfill which was slated to reopen as a recycling centre and landfill for Toronto construction waste. Almost a year to the day the plan by the Mississauga construction giant came

Steve Pinsonneault is now officially Lambton-Kent-Middlesex’s MPP. Pinsonneault was re-elected in the Feb. 27 and took the oath of office Tuesday morning. Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet will be sworn in tomorrow. Lisa Thompson, who was the agriculture minister in the last sitting, attended Pinsonneault’s ceremony in Queen’s Park. He was named Thompson’s parliamentary assistant after his election in

Heather Wright/The Independent Frustrated by the regional government thrust upon them and feeling ignored by Chatham, a group in Bothwell and Zone want to return to Lambton County. A petition is circulating in the area which calls on the province to “release us from Chatham-Kent and allow us to amalgamate as a new lower-tier municipality under the County of Lambton.”

North Lambton has captured the Lambton-Kent Senior A Girls basketball championship. The Eagles defeated Lambton-Kent Composite School 40-30 in the Nov. 7 tilt in Forest. Alexis Wice had 14 points, Lily Heynsbergen tallied nine and Delaney Appeldoorn had eight in the game for the winners. LK kept pace with the Eagles in the first three quarters but North Lambton came

Heather Wright/The Independent Chatham-Kent Mayor Darrin Canniff is downplaying the meetings he had with consultants and executives from York 1 Environmental Waste Services as far back as 2019. That’s the company which purchased the former Dresden dump in 2022 and now hopes to build a construction waste recycling center and rebuild the landfill to use. As many as 700 trucks

Heather Wright/The Independent Before it became publicly known York1 Environmental Waste Solutions planned to repurpose the Dresden dump, it filed its plans for stormwater management at the site. The request to amend the Environmental Compliance Approval at the site was posted on the Environmental Registry of Ontario Nov. 30, 2023 and the chance for the public to comment closed two

Heather Wright/The Independent The head of York1 says “municipal support was communicated” to officials as they met with Chatham-Kent’s mayor, local councillors and staff in 2022. York1 President, Brian Brunetti, in the company’s filing to the Environmental Registry of Ontario which asked for comments on a provincial plan to force the Dresden dump revitalization to undergo an Environmental Assessment, said

Heather Wright/The Independent York1 Environmental Waste Solutions offered to accept half the construction waste and soil it originally planned in a bid to avoid a full Environmental Assessment of the revitalization of the Dresden dump. That from a letter filed to the Environmental Registry of Ontario as the provincial government sought input on a plan to force the Mississauga-based company

York1 Environmental Solutions will have to go through a full Environmental Assessment to gain approval for the revival of the dormant Dresden Dump. The news of the in depth investigation was posted on the Environmental Registry of Ontario late Friday. York1 wants to build a new landfill on the Irish School Road site and create a construction and soil waste

Incident raises concerns for York1 proposal: Jakubec Heather Wright/The Independent © The former owner of the Dresden dump has been fined over $65,000 for leachate caused by dumping waste from a cannabis greenhouse at the site before it was sold to York1 Environmental Services. And one environmental activist is sounding the alarm bells about what this could mean for the

Water Wells First founder questions York1’s non-porous clay findings Heather Wright/The Independent A man who has been on the forefront of the fight for clean water wells is worried about York1 Environmental Waste Solution’s plan for an old dump in Dresden. Kevin Jakubec – who founded Water Wells First concerned the wind industry would cause harm to local water wells

The Ontario government has taken the first step toward a full Environmental Assessment of the plan to revive the dormant Dresden dump. York1 Environmental Waste Solutions plans to build a new landfill on the Irish School Road site and create a construction and soil waste recycling centre. It would bring up to 6,000 tonnes of construction waste and soil in