Saying No To The Proposed Dump

Wednesday, 27 March 2019 08:19

The Oxford People Against the Landfill or OPAL are hosting a big protest in front of the Walker Environmental Building in Ingersoll today.

INGERSOLL - Self proclaimed Dump Fighters will be protesting in front of Walker Environment Group in Ingersoll today.

They will marching on the sidewalk in front of the Walker Building at 160 Carnegie Street at 5:00 pm this afternoon. Oxford People Against the Landfill President Bryan Smith Walker is actually having a community Liaison meeting today.

"This meeting which is already scheduled to be the last meeting of their community liaison meetings will be the last meeting that they hold in Oxford County and hopefully it is the meeting in which they announce they are packing up and going home."

Smith says everyone is welcome to join them in their protest of the proposed landfill near Ingersoll.

"If people have anti dump signs of their own, because they have had them on their lawns for the past 7 years or if they have created signs, they are welcome to bring those. We do have people who make signs for us, the wonderful Bonnie Dennyson has made signs for us and you can borrow a sign for the protest today if you come out."

Smith says they heard Doug Ford's comments last week loud and clear and want to make sure he knows that the people of Oxford are indeed against this proposed landfill. Last week Doug Ford speaking in Oxford Centre said he will not place a landfill in an area that doesn't want it.

"Who are a bunch of politicians in Queens Park to tell municipalities how to run their municipality, it is up to them, they have an option, to opt in, or opt out, that is up to them, it is not necessarily up to us to overrule a municipality that is the last thing I would want to do. I don't care if someone says they have 300 or 400 jobs, we are not going to stick something in an area that people don't want."

Smith said those comments prompted them to host this protest today to show everyone that people in Oxford County are in fact against this proposed landfill.