Raging Duff

The Quebec government thinks it’s a great idea to expand the Lachenaie dump to accept more garbage from Montreal. At the current rate, the dump would be full by the end of next month. Owner and operator BFI has been granted an emergency injunction to expand the dump to 92 hectares, with enough room for garbage through 2025. Of course, area residents and environmental groups are screaming about the smell, the noise, the groundwater pollution, the seagulls and what’s happening to property values. BAPE, Quebec’s toothless environmental public consultation office has finished hearings into the dump expansion and is expected to deliver its recommendations to the Charest Liberals by May 28, but now that Quebec has already spoken, we know which side they’ll be coming down on when the report hits the desk of the Minister of Unsustainable Development, Environmental Pretense and Greenwash, Julie Boulet.
The city of Montreal says it's pleased with the government's decision. I’ll bet it is. It allows this gang of enviro-hypocrites to prance about pretending they’re green while they truck their trash to Terrebonne in ever increasing quantities. That’s 23 percent of all of Quebec’s post-consumer waste. A happy Earth Day to Alan De Sousa.