The Early Days, Volume one of the trilogy, OWMC-The "Wasted" Years, is the account of a fourteen-year-long battle against a proposed toxic waste treatment plant slated for the Niagara Peninsula in Southern Ontario. The Ontario Waste Management Corporation (OWMC) announced in September of 1985 that it had chosen LF-9C in West Lincoln as the preferred site for its proposed facility. As a Crown Corporation, its authority superseded all municipal bylaws, present and future. From its inception, the OWMC had received the backing of all three political parties and enjoyed seemingly bottomless...