<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi folks</div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Happy New Years! </div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Eleanor dropped me a quick note this morning about Jigg's Hallow and how the OMB approved it. I sent her an email on how the public can still have a say on this issue. </div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size:
16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">We've helped killed Melancthon, but we can help put the pressure on Kuntz and Preston Gravel to help stop Jigg's Hallow as they seek their water permit, we can help folks in West Montrose with Capital Paving's request by the Kissing Bridge and lend a hand to the folks in Paris Ontario to stop that outdated Dufferin quarry pit. Strategies on how we can help are below for your reference. </div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Pay particular
regard to the report written by Gord Miller. That report states<span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;">: <span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.03333282470703px;"> </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.03333282470703px;">the Grand River watershed has over 700 active PTTWs, (</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.03333282470703px;">Permits to Take Water</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.03333282470703px; font-weight: bold;">) with permits constantly being issued, renewed and expiring, including significant municipal water takings. It is hard to envision how MOE could have evaluated cumulative impacts in such watersheds prior to the development of water budgets.</span></div><div style="font-family:
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">That single phrase can inspire the policy shifts we need to see. Clearly the need is there for Ontario to create a more reasonable and predictable model. Is this something that GREN would like to champion in the days ahead? </div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Also, quick reminder, Maude Barlow is coming to Paris Ontario on January 12th to lend support for the folks in Paris working to stop the Duffern Quarry Pit. More details on time and place will follow soon. </div><div
style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Below is the note I sent to Eleanor on ways we can help save the Grand and Waterloo Moraine from harmful pits. </div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Lulu :0)</div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div> <div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york',
times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Eleanor Grant <eleanor7000@gmail.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 1, 2013 10:09:07 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Jig's Hollow<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1589519456"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi Eleanor</div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div
style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">OMB approved a gravel pit by Jiggs Hallow and residents are still fighting this below water table pit. </div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://observerxtra.com/2/news/residents-call-on-council-to-reverse-jigs-hollow-pit/">http://observerxtra.com/2/news/residents-call-on-council-to-reverse-jigs-hollow-pit/</a><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>(The one
near the Kissing Bridge is an application by Capital Paving. Jiggs Hallow is one regarding a below water pit application by Kuntz and Preston Sand and Gravel.) </span></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif">Generally, pit applications are tough to stop because the MNR has never once declined a pit application in their history and with the current laws, any pit owner can put one anywhere in Southern Ontario. Doesn't matter if it's on A1 farmland, or in our
Region's ESL areas technically speaking because the province has no regard for local environmental protection constraints. The ESL is not protected from pits unless we attach some sort of provincial law on top to protect them like, basically we could use the Greenbelt Act.</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">This doesn't mean the Jiggs Hallow project is game over yet. They still must take a water permit application using the Environmental Bill of Rights. That means, the public will have the chance to give feedback and if they can't take that water, it could kill that project! They have yet to list this project in the EBR
registry but we have to monitor this site for when that takes place. It's online here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/searchNotice0.jsp?clearForm=true&menuIndex=1_1&language=en">http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/searchNotice0.jsp?clearForm=true&menuIndex=1_1&language=en</a></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">Last year we did almost have a stage 3 drought this summer and we qualified for it but the process to get there is unreasonably difficult and long to get to. Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller wrote a special report about this matter
here: </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ecoissues.ca/index.php/Water-Taking:_Leave_Something_for_the_Fish">http://www.ecoissues.ca/index.php/Water-Taking:_Leave_Something_for_the_Fish</a> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">In the attachments is a document specific to
Waterloo Region's pit issues created by MPP Leeanna Pendergast. That's a handy doc to reference.<span style="background-color:transparent;"> This is the presentation that launched the move to revise the Province's Aggregate Act. </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">I created a power point for the Aggregate Act revision with info that could be used as well. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/ara-submission-lanteigne-aggregate-risks-gdp-impacts" style="background-color:transparent;">http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/ara-submission-lanteigne-aggregate-risks-gdp-impacts</a></div><div style="background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">Climate Change has brought us to the point we can reasonably use the rocks vs. food argument because workable farmlands with a water supply are in dramatic decline globally speaking. Food means more jobs, more money and greater economic prosperity than aggregates. I used this slide to help stop a racetrack project but the food issues are based on the most current available data. It's the same info we can use to help stop pits: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/raceway">http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/raceway</a></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family:
tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">If there are enough public comments on the EBR website submitted, the company might back out. That is in part, how they killed Melancthon. Thousands wrote in for both air and water discharge permits and the company is by law, supposed to address each concern before getting the permit. In the end, the company simply quit the project. We could do the same for Jiggs Hallow.</span><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color:transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new
york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">Feel
free to circulate this!</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">Lulu :0)</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="tahoma, new york, times,
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