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

[Anne Morgan]

... but part of the mandate if the extraction went ahead was to
rehabilitate the area. Never possible!

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 10:42 AM <strothjkl at sympatico.ca> wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Lori S.
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