[All] Pendergast News Release: PDF

[Norah & Richard]

Thanks Lulu. Very good event.
The ECO Gord Miller said a few years ago at a GWO annual presentation 
that if they increased the cost of gravel by a few cents per ton, it 
would accelerate the companies to do more re-use of aggregate. In 
Northern Ontario he said they re-used 85% of their aggregate whereas in 
Southern Ontario they only re-used 6% because it is cheap and close by. 
We need to update those stats from the ECO and use them ..
Last week at the GWO annual presentation someone on the panel stated 
that the re-use of aggregate in S.Ont is now 13% . Not good enough.!
Could you confirm these numbers (re cost per ton) from the ECO and feed 
that back to Leanne. ?   Norah

On 22/06/2011 10:01 AM, Louisette Lanteigne wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> MPP Pendergast released a news release yesterday with details 
> regarding the costs associated with gravel pits and agricultural 
> interests. She's got the numbers to strongly support the cause of 
> protecting farmland. This isn't a quick election thing, this document 
> took actual work to craft with great care and the result is a 
> compelling fiscal argument. I aspire to see a similar report done on 
> the worth of water someday. For all the time I've known Ms. 
> Pendergast, she has always been a strong supporter for source water 
> protection crafting letters during my OMB Process and during the 
> Waterloo Moriane Request for Review for a Waterloo Moraine Act. She's 
> the real deal. The PDF is in the attachments.
>
> Using a similar format of her report I'd like to secure baseline data 
> on water permits currently issued for Waterloo Region, to see how much 
> companies are withdrawing, what price they currently pay for it and 
> what revenues do they make from it. In understanding the value of 
> water being used in our region, the nature of the industries using our 
> water, we can better understand how the costs of a pipeline could 
> adversely impact these firms should water prices rise etc. We need to 
> structure the baseline data to understand the current use of our own 
> water before we can determine the value of it. Once we have the value, 
> we can compare it to the numbers cited in this report associated with 
> it's aggregate worth.
>
> Lulu
>
>
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