| Fatigue, frustration and suspicion are dogging plans for a new landfill and waste management centre proposed just outside of Napanee. “We’ve been here before, and we thought this was finally over,” Mike Bossio, 49, of Lonsdale, said of the battle by Tyendinaga Township, the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and a band of angry citizens to stop plans to expand the landfill in their area. “I am thinking of my grandchildren and the grandchildren of my constituents,” said Margaret Walsh, the reeve of Tyendinaga Township. “We said no, we got (an earlier proposal for a nearby landfill expansion) stopped at no small cost and effort and now here the same thing rears its ugly head again. It is exhausting.” Residents are angry about Waste Management’s plan to build a new, larger landfill in the vicinity of the former Richmond landfill site, which opened in 1954. The company is seeking environmental approvals to build the Beechwood Road Environmental Centre, with a new landfill to accept 400,000 tonnes of waste per year over 20 years. As the first step toward an environmental assessment, Waste Management recently proposed terms of reference to the environment ministry to guide the assessment process. “We have done everything we could to consult with the community and to meet the standards requested by the environment ministry,” said Wes Muir, director of communications for Waste Management. Kate Jordan, speaking for the environment ministry, said the province will decide today whether to accept, reject or ask for more information about Waste Management’s terms of reference. “In making our decision, we will have included input from the public interest groups, our own scientists, all our government agencies and, of course, from the feedback we gave and the answers given in response from Waste Management in making our decision,” she said. After years of court battles, overturns, appeals and environment assessment, in 2006, citing various environmental concerns, Ontario’s Minister of the Environment stopped the firm’s earlier bid to expand the Richmond Landfill Continue to full article at Residents frustrated by renewed landfill expansion talk – The Whig Standard – Ontario, CA. | 
