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Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat \u2013\u00a0Environmental and community groups have sent a letter<\/a> to Peel Region Council members urging them to pass a motion at today\u2019s council meeting against the proposed expansion of the privately-owned waste incinerator in Brampton. Council is in receipt of a report<\/a> from the region\u2019s Medical Officer of Health and Commissioner of Health Services that raises concerns about the impacts of an expanded incinerator on the health of people living in the vicinity of the facility, located at 7656 Bramalea Road.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeel Public Health points out that this area of Peel already has significant air pollution and people living there are more likely to suffer from certain health conditions, including diabetes and COPD,\u201d points out Steve Papagiannis of the Brampton Environmental Alliance. \u201cWe want Council to join us in telling the provincial government, who is being asked to approve the project, to say no. We should be directing our efforts to eliminate waste, not grow our capacity to burn it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The public health report points out that the community living around the incinerator is more likely to be racialized and lower-income than the overall population of Peel Region. There is a high probability that area residents are unaware of both the proposal itself and the potential impacts on their health.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel that Emerald\u2019s environmental screening report falls short in many areas related to current air pollution and testing from the existing facility, let alone what we could expect from their projections if the incinerator undergoes a massive expansion,\u201d adds Steve Kirby of the Peel chapter of the Sierra Club. \u201cWe\u2019re glad to see that Peel Public Health is calling for more frequent and ongoing monitoring of pollutants in soil, something the company has not done. But monitoring alone won\u2019t protect the community. Pollution from burning waste produces some of the most toxic \u201cforever chemicals\u201d known to science and it\u2019s unfair to expose this already burdened community to even more. The expansion must be denied.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emerald EFW, the company that owns the incinerator, is seeking to expand the facility by nearly five times, to handle 900,000 tonnes of waste per year. The provincial government has not made a decision on the proposal. The groups have asked the provincial government to require a full environmental assessment of the project to allow for more public input and independent scientific expertise, as well as an examination of alternatives to a massive increase in waste burning.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncineration is a terrible answer to Ontario\u2019s waste problem,\u201d says Karen Wirsig, Senior Program Manager for Plastics at Environmental Defence. \u201cWe\u2019re very pleased to see Peel Public Health recommend exploring the benefits of other solutions that serve to reduce the generation of waste in the first place. Waste reduction, reuse, repair, composting and recycling are all much better ways of dealing with the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE (environmentaldefence.ca<\/a>): Environmental Defence is a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization that works with government, industry and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities.<\/p>\n

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For more information or to request an interview, please contact:<\/p>\n

Mira Merchant, Environmental Defence, media@environmentaldefence.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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