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The proposed expansion of a Quebec landfill that accepts hazardous waste from the United States has ignited a turf war between the Quebec provincial government and local leaders, who say they oppose putting US trash into a local peat bog.
Local leaders are protesting against the move – saying the province is capitulating to a US company in the midst of a tariff war between Canada and the United States.
For a year, the Montreal suburb of Blainville has been refusing to sell a piece of city-owned forest land to facilitate the expansion of Stablex, a US-owned company that treats and stores hazardous waste, including 33,000 tons exported from the US in 2023. Tech billionaire Bill Gates is listed as a stakeholder in the company.
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Peat bogs are really important as far as global warming is concerned. Don’t throw hazardous waste on top of them.
the Quebec minister of natural resources and forests introduced a bill to force the city to sell the land to allow the expansion to go forward
That’s so fucked in the head.
“We are not the trash can of the United States,” Ruba Ghazal, an opposition member of Quebec’s parliament, said at a press conference. She said it is unacceptable for Quebec’s ruling conservative party to “expropriate a city to give it to Trump’s United States”.
Wtf, 40% of the waste comes from the US! Fuck that!
He said the proportion of hazardous materials coming to the site from the US has fallen from 43% in 2018 to 17% in 2024.