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CTV News
09-08-2025
- General
- CTV News
Citizens against recycling facility to form human chain in Dresden
Dresden is looking to form a human chain, fighting a proposed recycling facility at an old landfill. Dresden Together is looking to create a human chain from the landfill site in Dresden on Irish School Road into town. This event is fighting back against the proposed recycling facility. York1 Environmental Waste Solutions is looking to start up the old landfill and create a regenerative recycling facility. 'It isn't just about our community. Because if this can happen here, there are a lot of other dormant landfills in the province that could end up being in the same position that are bordering on a small community, like Dresden,' said Wendy Vercauteren with Dresden Together. 'They could end up in the same fight that we are.' It's all set to take place at 1 p.m. on Sunday and the group is calling all supporters to come out and help.
CTV News
26-06-2025
- Business
- CTV News
‘What the heck is going on?': Dresden residents upset with heavy equipment at controversial landfill property
Dresden residents are expressing their dismay as heavy equipment has been seen at a controversial landfill property. York1 Environmental Waste Solutions has started 'housekeeping and prep work' at 29831 Irish School Road, just north of the small town. One resident spotted the heavy equipment on York1 transport trucks Monday and posted it to social media. 'I thought, oh no! Here we go. It's started already,' Wendy Vercauteren told CTV News on Thursday. 'We've had periods of nothing happening and then we see this and it's just 'What the heck is going on!'' York1 spokesperson Laryssa Waler confirmed a 'small crew' is on site with heavy equipment. 'The tasks underway — grounds clean‑up, grading, removal of legacy debris, and installation of basic environmental controls — are all activities that are expressly permitted under the site's existing Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA),' Waler wrote in a statement. Just three weeks ago, the Ford government passed Bill 5 which, among other things, exempts York1 from going through a comprehensive environmental assessment for their plan to build a regenerative recycling facility on the property. 'Our goal is to stabilize and modernize this site,' Waler wrote. 'Later this year we will apply to amend the ECA for waste transfer & processing so we can transition it into a modern Regenerative Recycling Facility that will handle only non‑hazardous construction and‑demolition materials.' 'I am not done fighting this thing,' Vercauteren said. She is a co-founder of Dresden Together, one of two grassroots groups fighting the York1 development. Vercauteren said she's not specifically opposed to a recycling facility, but not this close to town. And she is worried the province will use the ongoing concerns about a lack of landfill space for residential waste to pivot the plan near Dresden. 'Who's to say that at some point the province examines the landfill crisis in the province and that they could, with Bill 5, declare this as a special economic zone and change course and change it from a regenerative recycling facility and make it into a landfill,' Vercauteren said. 'We are still here and we're still fighting,' Stefan Premdas said Thursday, co-founder of the other group called Dresden CARED (Citizens Against Reckless Environmental Disposal). Premdas is organizing a rally for Thursday, July 3 in Dresden at Rotary Park, starting at 11:45 a.m. 'It is a show of community support and resistance that we're planning,' Premdas said. 'We spend a lot of time going to Queen's Park in small numbers. It's several hours away, and it's quite costly for our town to get there. And so, we want to do something local so that our entire community can participate.'
CTV News
12-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
From Dresden to Queen's Park: Landfill fight deepens as integrity questions fuel debate
Dresden residents Wendy Vercauteren (right) and Martha Fehr say they remain 'cautiously optimistic' as opposition to a landfill expansion grows. (Travis Fortnum/CTV News Windsor)
CTV News
12-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Landfill fight deepens as Dresden residents back probe into Ford government's reversal
Dresden residents Wendy Vercauteren (right) and Martha Fehr say they remain 'cautiously optimistic' as opposition to a landfill expansion grows. (Travis Fortnum/CTV News Windsor)
