Quebec Superior Court has rejected the City of Blainville's request for an injunction to suspend the expropriation of protected land for the expansion of a hazardous waste landfill site owned by Stablex, an American company.

The decision was released Wednesday, about a week after the provincial government pushed through a bill that will allow the owners of the landfill to expand the facility for an additional 40 years of storage.

According to Superior Court documents, the injunction request was r…