From Peter Anderson Tiny Township Tiny Township is considering an official plan and zoning amendment to allow Beamish Construction limited to expand its existing aggregate operation on part lot 79 and 80 (40 Darby Road ) North to 2 Darby Road. To my knowledge no one has involved the Severn Sound Envi...
By Roberta Bell, Orillia Packet & Times The Ministry of the Environment is keeping an eye on Ramara Township after staff authorized potentially contaminated waste to be dumped at a decommissioned municipal quarry. After the drainage catch basins under the trucks in the bays at Ramara works yards ...
News release from Blue Mountain Watershed Trust On the eve of its 30th year anniversary, Commissioners of the Niagara Escarpment Commission(NEC) have voted 7-5 to ask the provincial government to end all new aggregate extraction on the Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. On Septembe...
Larger buffer zone needed to protect Late Woodland-era village site By Jenni Dunning Midland Mirror PENETANGUISHENE – A rezoning request in Penetanguishene is on hold after it was discovered an archeological site on the land was larger than first thought. It has also raised concerns from the Huronia ...
Significant deficiencies in Highland’s studies point to gaping flaw in province’s developer-driven process From NDACT website AWARE News Network Recently, a peer review study of the Melancthon mega-quarry was released. Commissioned by the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority in response to...
When: Saturday, April 12th, 10 am to 12 pm Where: Nottawasaga (Duntroon)Community Hall, lower level Just west of the CR 124 and CR 91 intersection in Duntroon Join us to get an update on the implementation and the future monitoring of the impacts of the Walker Duntroon Quarry. Share your concerns ...
From MegaQuarry News We don’t normally send you an update at the start of the week, but the Public Meeting deserves a special bulletin! Despite a spring snowstorm that shut down local roads, about 200 people packed into the Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex in Shelburne to learn more about Ont...
By: Sara Hershoff Creemore Echo Thousands of acres of prime farmland in Melancthon Township – including land once slated for a mega-quarry – now owned by Bonneville Financial Inc. will continue to be farmed for decades to come, says company president Tom Eisenhauer. But, he adds, the only way to ens...
Government responds to ARA report! From NDACT (North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Taskforce) As you’ll recall, we were deeply disappointed in the review of the Aggregate Resources Act which was completed by the Standing Committee on General Government last fall. Despite excellent recomme...
from NDACT It didn’t take long for the review of the Aggregate Resources Act to rear its head in 2014. As you’ll recall, the Standing Committee on General Government studied the outdated legislation following the uproar over the Highland mega quarry. Sadly, the Committee ignored the stron...
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