Fact sheet

August 2, 2000

THE ADAMS MINE LANDFILL SITE

• Adams Mine Landill Site is located approximately 30 kilometres south of Kirkland Lake, Ontario.

• Canadian Waste Services, Inc. (CWS - construction and operation of landfill)
• Notre Development (Notre) - owner of Adams Mine site
• Miller Waste Systems - truck transport of waste from transfer station service to railhead
• Canadian National Railway Company (CN) - rail transport
• Gas Recovery Systems (GRS) - landfill gas management

• Waste transported in fully-enclosed intermodal containers via truck from Toronto's transfer stations to CN's MacMillian Rail Yard, located in the City of Vaughan. Containers will be loaded onto flat-bed train cars, (approximately 80 cars per train).
• One train per day will travel from Vaughan to North Bay. Jurisdiction for the train will transfer to Ontario Northland at North Bay and the train will proceed to the Adams Mine site, located south of Kirkland Lake.
• The distance from Vaughan to the Adams Mine landfill site is 600 km.

• Landfill to be built in the "South Pit" - open pit approximately 800 feet deep.
• Facility has been designed and approved as a hydraulic containment landfill to take advantage of the ground water conditions surrounding the former open pit mine.

• The depth of the pit and the higher groundwater levels surrounding the site maintain inward groundwater flow to the waste.
• This prevents leachate from entering the groundwater. Leachate is a liquid that forms when rainwater or melting snow enters the landfill and mixes with the waste.
• Leachate will be collected at the bottom of the site by pumps, pumped to the surface and treated in a dedicated, on-site leachate treatment plant.

• Decomposition of buried waste, which occurs in the absence of oxygen, produces landfill gas. The landfill gas consists of methane, carbon dioxide, water vapour and other trace components. The methane component in the gas is combustible.
• Landfill gas collection system consisting of horizontal collection trenches and vertical walls will be installed.
• Collected gas will be disposed of in an environmentally sound manner, either by high temperature controlled flaring or through conversion of the gas to energy in a landfill gas utilization plant.

• Rail Cycle North Ltd. has established partnership agreements with surrounding municipalities for community liaison, monitoring, impact mitigation and benefits sharing.
• Royalties of $1 per tonne of waste received will be paid to the communities of Larder Lake, Kirkland Lake and Englehart.
• Above communities will receive free waste disposal.