I am strongly against having…

I am strongly against having such a project so close to residential areas. I am not directly in the path of the stack but when I wind shifts, I cannot stay outside and enjoy my garden just from what is coming out of the stack now! I can't imagine what it will smell like, once we add in all the rest of garbage that wants to be approved. And as a sidenote, I always thought that if you could smell it, there were too many particulates in the air which is not good for anyone's health and the stack should be raised until we can no longer smell it, coupled also with more scrubbers. I lived close to Sudbury when their stacks were not high enough, the landscape looked like the moon and they had one of the highest cancer rates in Ontario. Once they raised the stacks, things started growing again and the landscape turned green once again. Don't know if the cancer rate improved....I imagine it did over time.

I do not think that it is fair for any person in the area to have to smell that, or put up with the increased truck traffic. Chatham is a small, relatively poor municipality compared to other areas. If the tax payers had to contribute even a small amount to this project when there are so many other areas that "need" our money, I think that is a gross misconduct of municipal power. I have only lived in Chatham for 4.5 years and my taxes have gone up over $2,000.....I can not handle these types of increases and I am very skeptical that we would not be asked to contribute and equally skeptical that it would be a money maker proposition, at least for the municipality and the tax payers....but someone would be making money though, I have no doubt.

Thank you for allowing us to contribute our comments are such an important matter that effects all of us.