[All] Provincial push to loosen rules on aggragate extraction-Regional Council vote tomorrow

[strothjkl at sympatico.ca]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/province-s-plans-to-change
-gravel-pit-rules-could-harm-local-water-natural-areas-report-1.5338478
This is to be voted on at Regional Council tomorrow.

 

 

This morning on CBC-KW they interviewed a Land Use Planning staffperson from
the Region of Waterloo, I imagine the same one quoted in the article above,
and he said they have written up their views against it -and their position
paper on this will be voted on at Regional Council tomorrow -Wed. Oct.
30th.and then they will send it to the Ford people. One of the primary
concerns here is that if construction is allowed to go too deep, below the
water table, it could contaminate our aquifers, so at a bare minimum, they
want it to be stipulated that anything approved has to be above the
waterline.  But it sounds like they are completely against the concept in
general.  This involves many other types of projects- not just aggragate. 

 

Lori S.

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