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ERO 019-4219 – Moving to a project list approach under the EAA

By Linda Heron on Monday, January 24th, 2022
Posted in Class EA for Waterpower, Energy, Environmental Assessment Act, Environmental Registry, Fisheries, Flooding, Hydroelectric, Impact Assessment Act, Mining, ORA Submissions, Policy & Process, Quarries, Regulatory, River Concerns, Rivers at Risk, Sewage, Sewage, Species at Risk, Toxics, Water Quality

West Credit River Brook Trout – Photo by Steve Nokams

When these unregulated projects come home to roost, and the environmental impacts begin to damage or destroy highly valued public interests, such as our lakes and rivers, endangered species, our drinking water, and the economy, the government will pay a very high price.  Unfortunately, the damage that will result from these irresponsible and negligent actions will not easily be undone, and in many cases will not be resolved in our lifetimes.

If the government wants to incorporate “one-project, one review”, then it must be a robust EA process with fulsome public and Indigenous consultation, or it may find the process much longer than it might have intended.

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EBR 012-5444 – A Blueprint for Change – Aggregate Resources Act

By Linda Heron on Tuesday, December 15th, 2015
Posted in Aggregate Resources Act, Environmental Registry, ORA Submissions, Quarries, Regulatory Submissions, River Concerns

ORA is writing in response to the province’s blueprint of proposed changes to modernize and strengthen the policy framework for managing Ontario’s aggregate resources.   ORA’s primary concerns are related to the potential impacts of aggregate extraction on private wells, aquifers, wetlands, lakes and rivers; however, we are also concerned with the loss of prime farmland, and in particular, Class 1 agricultural soil.

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Come Out and Protest – No Taggart Miller Dump!!

By Linda Heron on Monday, June 3rd, 2013
Posted in Landfill/Garbage, Ottawa River, Quarries, Rivers at Risk

Dump the Dump Now is a group formed in Russell Township, in Eastern Ontario to fight a proposed mega-landfill.  The Dump Site would be situated on pristine land which is the headwaters for at least four streams and contains a 32-acre quarry lake on the highest land in the area. The hill has a very high water table and it would be just a matter of time before leachate from the proposed landfill, leachate pond and contaminated soil stockpiles would pollute the streams. Also as soon as work is done up there the drainage would change and have negative downstream impacts immediately. One of the streams flows into the Bearbrook and the rest flow into the Castor, tributary of the South Nation, tributary of the Ottawa. Surface water in this area is already suffering from too many nutrients caused in part by livestock and in part by rapid residential development–a landfill on such a sensitive site would add a toxic load to the Castor which could be deadly to aquatic life.

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Russell Township – 500 Acres of Farming Community to be turned into a Giant Waste Disposal Facility

By Linda Heron on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Posted in Castor River, Quarries, Rivers at Risk

 Taggart Miller Environmental Services proposes to turn 500 acres of a farming community in Russell Township, Ontario, into a giant waste disposal facility. Class One agricultural land around a century-old quarry would become a highly toxic, and very profitable, landfill.

The site contains a quarry containing a significant shale resource; farmland in use as crop, hayfield, pasture or woodlot; and a 32-acre lake.  The site has high ecological importance, including breeding grounds for species-at-risk. It is right beside farms and residences, 2500 metres from three schools, a few kilometres from many more schools, and would irreparably harm several villages and many productive farms.
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SAVE OUR WATER – STOP THE MEGA QUARRY

By Linda Heron on Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Posted in Media, Quarries, Rivers at Risk, Water as a Commons

This film was made for the “Stop the Mega Quarry” campaign, which is another extremely important cause that we all must help with in any way possible.

This film is also important for our Ontario rivers at risk because it speaks of the importance of our water.  The narrator reminded us that, “you can live for weeks and months without food, but you can only live a few days without water.”

We must treat water as a commons to be shared and cared for by everyone!  Without water there will be no life!