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Welcome to
Clean Harbors Canada, Inc.
Proposed Lambton Landfill Expansion
First
Public Open House
on the
Environmental Assessment (EA)
Terms of Reference
April 29, 2009
Clean Harbors Canada, Inc. – Lambton Landfill Expansion
Project Website: http://www.cleanharbors.com/locations/lambton/ea_process.html
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Clean Harbors – Who Are We?

Clean Harbors, Inc. is North America's leading provider of environmental and
hazardous waste management services.

Clean Harbors Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Clean Harbors, Inc., is Canada's
leading provider of environmental and hazardous waste management services,
including waste disposal, laboratory chemical packing, field services and
emergency response.

The Company provides essential services to large and small businesses and
numerous federal, provincial and local governmental agencies.

Clean Harbors employs 115 people at the Lambton facility.
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Clean Harbors -Helping the Environment
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Programs at Lambton

Free household hazardous waste disposal service to Lambton County.

Scrap metal, tires and waste oils collected and sent for recycling.
Household Hazardous Waste Collection

Clean Harbors conducts HHW events across the province on behalf of
municipalities and supports several other programs by providing safe, secure
disposal management services.
Green Purchasing

Purchasing practices address the procurement of recycled materials and supplies
where practical.

Examples include containers and drums made from post-consumer plastic and
recycled steel drums.
Site Cleanup , Restoration and Emergency Response

One of North America's largest site cleanup and emergency
response groups.

Large scale and complex site cleanup projects and emergency
response groups to ensure the safety and protection of people and
the environment.

Provide critical services, including people and equipment, on a
scheduled or emergency basis.
Responding to 9/11 – New York City

Clean Harbors immediately deployed emergency environmental
response units to assist in the clean up of the World Trade Centre
site and the safe removal of hazardous debris.
Hurricane Katrina – New Orleans

Clean Harbors provided support to the environmental cleanup
required after the hurricane.

The company donated land and facilities to house an emergency
response command center and over 300 people.
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Clean Harbors - Doing Our Part
Sustainability

Developed numerous programs and initiatives to ensure all operations comply
with environmental policies.

Company initiative to develop a corporate sustainability policy statement and
plan.

Initial focus on sustainability at Clean Harbors centers on 'Environmental”
sustainability, specifically those activities that will improve the company's impact
on the environment.
Renewable Energy

A new business unit has been formed to develop sections of Clean Harbors'
property into alternative power and energy projects as well as revitalize various
Brownfield properties.
Carbon Footprint

Initiated measurement of carbon footprint/CO2 emissions at our waste
management facilities and with our transportation fleet.

Review and evaluation of sustainable performance will build a baseline for
identifying areas of improvement and possible GHG reduction.
Energy Management

Implementing an energy management strategy to measure current energy
performance, setting goals and tracking energy reduction.

Energy curtailment programs initiated at several facilities.
Ozone Depleting Substance Destruction

Clean Harbors has the ability to properly manage identified ozone depleting
substances which have high global warming potential.
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Clean Harbors in the Community

The Lambton facility has an “open door” policy engaging stakeholders including
St. Clair Township Council, Walpole Island First Nation, Aamjiwnaang First
Nation and the Ontario Ministry of Environment (MOE).

Since 1986, the Facility has had the benefit of a Community Liaison and
Advisory Committee involving site neighbours, Township representatives, and
the local MOE office in regular, ongoing discussion about site operations.

Sharing information with our community occurs in several ways:

Regular one-to-one meetings with our closest neighbours and St. Clair
Township officials

Facility information kits available at local libraries

A Community Newsletter

Presentations to municipal councils, business groups, educators and students

On the web at http://www.cleanharbors.com/locations/lambton

An annual public open house is held to provide monitoring results and updates
to the community.

Host Community Agreement with St. Clair Township

Good Neighbour Program to enhance relationships with local residents.
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Clean Harbors Gives Back

Clean Harbors contributes to the quality of life in Lambton County through
sponsorships and financial contributions to local community organizations that
provide valuable services to families and individuals.

The total economic contribution to the local community from the Clean Harbors
operation from wages and goods and services purchased is tens of millions of
dollars per year.

The Lambton facility hosts five free household hazardous waste (HHW) days
annually.
Some groups and organizations that have received support include:
Aamjiwnaang First Nation “Visions of
Harmony”
Brigden Youth Baseball Association
Canadian Cancer Society
Corunna Christmas Lights Project
Corunna Minor Athletics Association
Corunna Wildcats Youth Soccer
Don Gardiner Memorial Baseball
Tournament
Kidney Foundation of SarniaLambton
Lambton Central Rodeo
Leslie Rogers Memorial Golf
Tournament
Meningitis Association
Moore Museum
Mooretown Minor Hockey
Association
Moore Township Minor Soccer
Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
Pathways Health Centre for
Children
Petrolia Breakfast Program
Petrolia Lion’s Club
Petrolia Soccer Club
Petrolia & Enniskillen
Agricultural Society
R.O.C.K.R.I.D.E. Children’s
Cancer Fundraiser
Sarnia Minor Athletic Association
Sarnia Boys Soccer Association
Sarnia Crime Stoppers
St. Clair Children & Youth
United Way of Sarnia-Lambton
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Clean Harbors Lambton Landfill
Role of the Facility

Hazardous waste is a fact of modern life. From medicines to cosmetics, from
packaged foods and beverages, to paint, fertilizer, rubber and plastics - many of
the products that nurture our lifestyle generate hazardous waste as part of their
production and consumption.

Several of these products are developed from the petrochemical industry in
Lambton County and these local industries are clients of Clean Harbors.

Federal and provincial law mandates that this waste be contained and managed
responsibly to protect human health and the environment. For over 40 years, the
Lambton facility has provided its expertise to ensure that Ontario's productive
economy is serviced in balance with a healthy environment.

The Lambton landfill is the only government-licensed hazardous waste
management landfill in Ontario.
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Lambton Landfill Operations
Placing Waste
Placing Waste
Compacting Clay Cover
Cell Excavation
Cell Excavation
LDR Plant
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Current Landfill Operations
Current
Operating
Area
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Lambton Landfill Monitoring Programs
To ensure the protection of the public, employees and the environment, the facility
maintains comprehensive monitoring programs. This monitoring ensures that
chemicals managed in the facility and disposed in the landfill do not migrate offsite
through the air, surface water or groundwater. Programs include the following:
Groundwater

Routine monitoring with twice annual sampling of 47 wells around the site
perimeter.

Subsurface and bedrock groundwater monitoring.

Cap integrity, purge well and south berm monitoring
Surface Water

Daily monitoring of treated surface water

Semi-annual chemical and biological monitoring.

Equalization pond.
Air Quality

Fence-line and area inspections are conducted at approximately two-hour
intervals by site personnel in order to detect any off-site odour impacts.

Annual ambient air quality monitoring program.
Biological

Annual collection of soil and natural grass samples at 14 sites, crop samples at 11
sites and sediment samples at 6 sites.

Results over many years provide assurance that the facility is meeting regulatory
requirements.
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Schematic of Regional
Geology/Hydrogeology
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Lambton Facility Monitoring Well
Network
Active Aquitard Monitoring Well Network
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Lambton Facility Monitoring Well
Network
Interface Aquifer Monitoring Well Network
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Biomonitoring Study Locations
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Why Are We Undertaking An
Environmental Assessment?

An increase in the approved volume of a disposal site
for hazardous waste is required to first obtain
approval under the Ontario Environmental
Assessment Act.

Environmental assessment is a decision-making
process used to support good environmental
decisions.
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Environmental Assessment Process
Environmental Assessment (EA) Process Steps:
1. Develop EA Terms of Reference.
2. Submit EA Terms of Reference to Minister of
Environment for approval.
3. Conduct EA study in accordance with approved
Terms of Reference and prepare EA Document.
4. Submit EA Document to Minister of Environment
for approval.
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Purpose of the Terms of Reference

Provide a framework for undertaking the EA.

Set out the alternatives that will be considered during
the EA.

Describe how these alternatives will be considered.

Provide a framework/schedule for public
consultation.

Identify other approvals that will be required to allow
the proposed facility to be implemented.
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New Landfill Pretreatment Regulations
Ontario Land Disposal Restrictions

In September 2007, Ontario introduced a land disposal restrictions (LDR)
regulation for solid hazardous wastes.

The LDR regulation requires pretreatment of waste at the landfill to either
immobilize or pretreat the hazardous constituents in the waste prior to disposal
in the landfill
Schedule for Implementation of LDR

Inorganic wastes – September 2007

Organic wastes – January 1, 2010
Pretreatment of Inorganic Materials

Clean Harbors has developed a pretreatment processing facility at Lambton to
meet the LDR requirements.

Process reduces mobility of contaminants in the environment by using a
chemical treatment followed by solidification.

Clean Harbors develops the treatment process for various waste types at their
onsite analytical laboratory.
Pretreatment of Organic Materials

Clean Harbors is in the process of developing pretreatment processes for
organic materials in advance of January 2010.
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Opportunity Analysis

Hazardous waste will continue to be generated in the future and require proper
management.

Clean Harbors manages hazardous waste including collection, transportation,
processing, recycling, incineration and landfill disposal.

Clean Harbors has an existing integrated waste management system in Ontario
that includes the Lambton facility.

The Lambton facility is an integrated disposal site that includes a laboratory for
waste testing and analysis, a waste processing facility to treat waste to a level
consistent with the Ontario Landfill Disposal Restrictions (LDR), an incinerator
for liquid organic waste disposal and leachate treatment, and a landfill.

This is the only hazardous waste landfill in Ontario.

The landfill is expected to reach the currently approved capacity in
approximately 4 years.

The landfill is situated in an ideal geological environment that provides a high
degree of natural protection to the environment.

Clean Harbors owns land adjacent to, and surrounding, the Lambton facility.

The undertaking will enable Clean Harbors to continue to provide secure
disposal service at current operating levels for an approximate 25 year planning
period.
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Alternatives To the Proposed
Undertaking
Possible alternatives for Clean Harbors to meet the opportunity are:

Do nothing
Clean Harbors would not undertake new disposal capacity development at the
Lambton landfill.

Establish a new landfill at another location
This alternative consists of developing new disposal capacity at another Clean
Harbors owned location in Ontario.

Export waste to a disposal facility elsewhere
This alternative consists of exporting waste outside of Ontario for disposal.

Expansion of the approved capacity of the Lambton landfill
This alternative consists of developing new disposal capacity at the Lambton
landfill on lands currently owned by Clean Harbors.
Of these alternatives, Clean Harbors believes that expansion of the approved
capacity of the Lambton landfill is the only reasonable option for the company, its
customers and the Province of Ontario.
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Conceptual Expansion Alternatives
On Existing Landfill Footprint Alternative (Vertical Expansion)

Vertical expansion over current landfill area.

Approximate height equal to existing earth berm height.

Conventional landfill concept requiring leachate collection
Off Existing Landfill Footprint Alternative (South Expansion)

South of existing landfill area

Shallow entombed concept utilizing natural attenuation of leachate

Final elevations at existing grade

Development of new earth berms

Will require approximately 30 hectares of land for a new cell within a total area
of approximately 80 hectares including earth berms and other site
infrastructure.
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Plan View
Conceptual Vertical Expansion
Cross Section A-A
Conceptual Vertical Expansion
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Plan View
Shallow Entombed South Expansion
Cross Section B-B
Shallow Entombed South Expansion
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Proposed Framework
for Comparative Evaluation of Capacity Expansion Alternatives

Develop Environmental Evaluation Criteria and Indicators

Environmental Criteria

Technical Criteria

Socio-Economic Criteria

Establish relative importance of criteria

Apply criteria to capacity expansion alternatives

Compare and rank alternatives

Select preferred site expansion alternative
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Assessment of Expansion Alternatives
Proposed environmental components to be considered in the Environmental
Assessment:

Agriculture

Air Quality

Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Design and Operations

Groundwater

Natural Environment (Aquatic & Terrestrial)

Noise

Odour

Surface Water
Potential effects are proposed to be considered in terms of the following
study areas, as applicable:

On-site within the landfill footprint areas including site infrastructure

Off-site or outside the landfill footprint areas
Please complete your comment sheet to help us understand whether there are any
other environmental components or study areas we should be considering as part of
the EA.
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Potential Evaluation Criteria
to Compare Capacity Expansion Alternatives
1. Environmental Criteria
Atmospheric Environment

Air Emissions

Noise

Odour
Geology and Hydrogeology

Groundwater quality

Groundwater quantity
Surface Water Resources

Surface water quality

Surface water quantity
Natural Environment

Terrestrial ecosystems

Aquatic ecosystems
Archeology and Cultural Heritage

Cultural and heritage resources

Archaeological resources
Agriculture

Agricultural resources

Agricultural operations
Please complete your comment sheet and your assessment criteria form to help us
understand the importance of the criteria presented and whether there are other
criteria we should be considering as part of the EA.
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Potential Evaluation Criteria
to Compare Capacity Expansion Alternatives
2. Technical Criteria
Facility Characteristics

Complexity of site infrastructure changes

Operational flexibility

Interaction and integration with existing site infrastructure
3. Socio-Economic Criteria
Economic

Existing businesses or farms

Employment on-site

Opportunities to provide products or services
Social

Existing off-site residences

Predicted changes in landscapes and views
Please complete your comment sheet and your assessment criteria form to help us
understand the importance of the criteria presented and whether there are other
criteria we should be considering as part of the EA.
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Traffic Assessment Approach

Site-related traffic not expected to increase since Clean Harbors is not seeking to
increase the current average annual waste intake volumes.

Obtained and collected background traffic counts for study area intersections.

Obtained accident data for the study area.

Established traffic growth rate through discussions with Lambton County staff.

Examined the expected future traffic volumes in the surrounding area, including
existing site traffic.

Evaluated the traffic impact at the site access and study area intersections, and
determine the need for any roadway modifications resulting from the sitegenerated traffic.

Evaluated a sensitivity analysis of high volume intake based on peak operations
(year, month, day-of-week).

Calculated the projected accident-related rates for the landfill operations.
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Traffic Assessment Findings

Under existing conditions, all study area intersections are able to accommodate
the current traffic demands, inclusive of the landfill-related traffic.

Even with the modest background traffic growth of 0.5% per annum on the
study area road network, the operation of the study area intersections will remain
largely unchanged in the 25 year horizon forecast.

Inbound truck traffic from the east and west use Highway 40 as the primary
access route, with 95% via Highway 40 and 5% via Mandaumin Road.

Outbound truck traffic reflects direction of ultimate destination, with 54% via
Highway 40 and 46% via Mandaumin Road.

The incidence of landfill-related accidents on the approved haul routes is not
projected to significantly increase through the ongoing operation of the landfill
facility.
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Approved Haul Routes
Lambton Landfill Expansion EA Transportation Assessment
Clean Harbors Canada Inc.
Modeland Road
Highway 402
London Line
Confederation Street
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Churchill Line
Mandaumin Road
Highway 40
Petrolia Line
Legend
Haul Route 1
Telfer Road
Kimball Road
Haul Route 2
Not To Scale
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Proposed Public Consultation Plan

Public consultation throughout the EA process involves the local community and
other key stakeholders.

Clean Harbors has planned two Open House events to consult with stakeholders
on the proposed Terms of Reference.

The first Open House (this event) is taking place April 29, 2009 to present
information and discuss the Terms of Reference for the EA.

A second Open House is planned for June 2009 to discuss the alternatives and
draft evaluation framework in more detail.

In addition, Clean Harbors will receive and respond to comments by telephone,
email and in writing.

If you wish to have a meeting with the company or members of the project
study team, please let us know.

Upon submission of the proposed Terms of Reference to the Ministry of
Environment (MOE), the public will be given a minimum 30 day period to
review and comment directly to the MOE on the proposed Terms of Reference.
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