<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: bold; ">Critique of MNR's Consolidated Report on <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">SAROS</span></span></font></b><br>
    (State of the Aggregate Resource, Ontario Study).<br><br>The Critique's Executive Summary is:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><i><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; ">Ontario</span></font></i><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">’s Ministry of Natural Resource carried out a set of studies called <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">SAROS</span> (State of the Aggregate Resource, Ontario Study). MNR commissioned a set of six papers about the State of Aggregate Resources in Ontario. MNR summarized the results of this work in a publication called the Consolidated Report, which presents 26 key findings about aggregates in Ontario. The critique concludes that MNR’s summary needs a broader perspective and too often takes an industrial point of view.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br><span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Gravel</span> <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Watch</span> Press Release:   <a href="http://www.gravelwatch.org/orig-gw/saros/100630-gwo-release-critique.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.gravelwatch.org/orig-gw/<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">saros</span>/100630-gwo-release-critique.pdf</a><br>
<br><span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Gravel</span> <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Watch</span> Critique:  <a href="http://www.gravelwatch.org/orig-gw/saros/100630-gwo-critique-consolidated-rept.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.gravelwatch.org/orig-gw/<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">saros</span>/100630-gwo-critique-consolidated-rept.pdf</a><br>
<br>See summary of <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">SAROS</span> history & related articles:   <a href="http://www.gravelwatch.org/saros.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.gravelwatch.org/<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">saros</span>.htm</a> <br>
<br>Regards,<br>    Ric Holt, President, <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Gravel</span> <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Watch</span> Ontario</span></font></p>
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