Stoney Creek residents suing GFL Environmental over landfill stench

Around 70 Stoney Creek residents have filed a lawsuit against GFL Environmental, the company in charge of a landfill that has caused pungent odours on-and-off in the neighbourhood for more than three years. Residents say the smell can be so overbearing it causes headaches and a chronic cough, and means they often can’t go outside. “If the wind is blowing our way, we are just annihilated with smell so that we have to close our windows, and even still sometimes the smell is in our house,” said Jennifer Magarrey, who lives in Stoney Creek. Magarrey is one of dozens of Upper Stoney Creek residents who say they’re fed up with the smell emanating from a nearby landfill. She says the odour has been on-and-off for the past three years and causes headaches and even a chronic cough.