Residents of the community of Blackie say they don't want a landfill that would process Calgary's garbage.
BFI Canada is proposing a landfill just east of the town that would cover approximately 6 sections of farm land.
BFI Canada hosted an open house earlier this month, and representatives have been going door to door passing out information to the town's 300 residents.
Kelly Malmberg , who lives in the area, doesn't like the idea of losing valuable farm land to a waste processing facility.
"We're going to take a thousand acres out of production which translates into about 4 and a half million loafs of bread each year," says Malmberg. "We can't make more land."
Many residents of Blackie won't even entertain the idea of a land fill so close to home.
"I am 150 million percent against it", says Sharon Ladd. "I've traveled the world and have seen what dumps do. I hate them."
Not everyone is against big business coming to the rural community.
David Wright repairs vehicles, and says other local business owners are for the project.
"I think we could get some of the (BFI's) business," says Wright, "They said they would like to hire local people."
BFI Canada says it's biggest challenge is to make sure people in Blackie have their questions answered so they're not afraid of the project.
"At the end of the day we all think about waste differently than we did a generation ago," says Mike Gladstone of BFI Canada. "Waste is a resource that should not be wasted. Recycling, composting and keeping the waste that has another purpose out of the landfill is what we want to do as a company."
"I'm not against BFI, I'm against the province giving a license for another landfill that isn't needed," says resident Ian Donovan. "There's enough land fill space in this province for the next fifty years, so there's no reason for another dump. What they should be doing is pushing more money for incineration.
BFI Canada says it would like the proposed land fill to be operational by 2013.
Residents against the project have developed a facebook page, "Blackie community against proposed Calgary dump".
The Prairie Sky Resource Centre is BFI Canada's website for the project.
