<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Dear Ministers</div><div><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">----- Forwarded Message -----</span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>From:</b> Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><br><b>To:</b> "kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "mgravelle.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <mgravelle.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "ahorwath-co@ndp.on.ca" <ahorwath-co@ndp.on.ca>; "cfife-co@ndp.on.ca" <cfife-co@ndp.on.ca>; "jbradley.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <jbradley.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "dcansfield.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <dcansfield.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "bchiarelli.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <bchiarelli.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>;
"mcolle.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <mcolle.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "gcrack.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <gcrack.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "sdelduca.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <sdelduca.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "kflynn.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <kflynn.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "ehoskins.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <ehoskins.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "hjaczek.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <hjaczek.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "ljeffrey.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <ljeffrey.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "mkwinter.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <mkwinter.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "dmatthews.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <dmatthews.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "pmcneely.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <pmcneely.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "gmurray.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <gmurray.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "jmilloy.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <jmilloy.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "dorazietti.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <dorazietti.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "csousa.mpp@liberal.ola.org"
<csousa.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "dzimmer.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <dzimmer.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "stephane.dion@parl.gc.ca" <stephane.dion@parl.gc.ca>; "francis.scarpaleggia@parl.gc.ca" <francis.scarpaleggia@parl.gc.ca>; "thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca" <thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca>; "justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca" <justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca>; "Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca" <Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca>; "Leona.Aglukkaq@parl.gc.ca" <Leona.Aglukkaq@parl.gc.ca>; "pm@pm.gc.ca" <pm@pm.gc.ca>; "peter.braid@parl.gc.ca" <peter.braid@parl.gc.ca> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 4, 2013 12:14:27 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Aggregate Act: Please Widen the Scope of the review process. </font><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Currently the Aggregate Act is being reviewed in Ontario, but the scope of the review is too limited. Current
recommendations lack regard for protection of prime farmland, protection of natural recharge for aquifer systems, biodiveristy, climate change variables, economic concerns and long term food and water security issues as well as public health. </div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Our current system of aggregate planning is illogical, outdated and needs to be revised to reasonably consider the totality of the actual impacts that overlap with other jurisdictional sectors at the local, provincial and federal levels. As a Metis, this is the way we have always viewed issues: Based on real impacts, not limited to a man made scope based on a subscribed belief of jurisdictional limitations. Science and common sense demands that we must have regard for the total impacts of our actions. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">We
must evolve our system to have regard to that. The findings of the Expert Panel on Groundwater by the Council of Academies produced an excellent report regarding this matter titled: The Sustainable Management of Groundwater Use in Canada. Their findings note the following; </span></div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_25_1383579699996_257" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_25_1383579699996_257"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px;">The Expert Panel’s report, which was published in May 2009, concluded that Canada is well positioned to be a world-leader in the development of sustainable management practices to protect and preserve groundwater supplies; however to do so, Canada must take action now. The interjurisdictional nature of groundwater
necessitates the development of a cooperative approach, uniting municipal, provincial, and federal government agencies in the development of scientific programs and policies that will ensure Canada’s groundwater resources are managed sustainably. Such cooperation will be necessary if Canada is to avoid the kinds of catastrophic over-usage or contamination issues experienced by some other countries.</span></div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_25_1383579699996_257" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_25_1383579699996_257" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">To view the report and supporting documents visit here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.scienceadvice.ca/en/assessments/completed/groundwater.aspx" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size:
12pt;">http://www.scienceadvice.ca/en/assessments/completed/groundwater.aspx</a><br></span></div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_25_1383579699996_257" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_25_1383579699996_257" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Has there been any attempt to engage First Nation's into the Aggregate Act review process? If not I suggest this be done. Fisheries and source water protection are within the jurisdiction of First Nation's to protect. It is a duty handed down by our ancestry and by way of our Treaty rights. The waters of Ontario are shared by many nations. The source of it comes from the aggregates that capture the water on lands we are discussing. Dialogue is needed on this issue. Please assure that this be facilitated in order to comply with the Canadian Constitution section 35.1
and to honour Treaty Rights. </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">We need protection of A1 farmlands and aquifers in Southern Ontario to protect jobs, food, water supplies and public health and fish. It is a matter of national and international food security as well as a source of long term economic stability if we prohibit aggregate extraction in these key areas. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please review the power point titled: Farms at Risk for details. </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(NOTE: In the ministry email I provided the actual power point. To save email space: I've posted the power point using slide share here: </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:
12pt;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/farmsat-risk">http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/farmsat-risk</a> )<br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Aggregates affect groundwater resources which is vital to protect if we are to secure local, provincial and federal economic goals and sustainability for the long term but economic variables are outside the current scope of aggregate review processes and this in my view is highly unreasonable. We must put a net value on the worth of the function of aggregate resources left in place. What is the value for the natural capital functions they provide in gathering water, controlling flow and flow rates, regulating water temperatures, recharging well systems, tributaries and
our Great Lakes while providing valuable farmlands. Please review the following power points: Brantaggregate PDF and AggregateGDPWaterloo.pdf as seen in the attachments. These power points help to show how to place a money value on aggregate resources, what numbers to look at and what <span id="yiv2054821350misspell-6" class="yiv2054821350">formula</span> can be used. We must consider these issues before approvals are given. The need is there to mandate a natural capital worth analysis. </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Slideshare links:</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a
href="http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/brantwater">http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/brantwater</a><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/ara-submission-lanteigne-aggregate-risks-gdp-impacts">http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/ara-submission-lanteigne-aggregate-risks-gdp-impacts</a><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Way Foward: Moving onto different sources of aggregates:</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Waterloo Region intends to build a new sludge incineration
facility with the goal of creating nitrate pellet fertilizer for crops to help offset Grand River nitrate issues associated with our effluent. In response I contacted our Regional Staff and let them know that <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;"><span id="yiv2054821350misspell-8" class="yiv2054821350">globally</span>, many nations have successfully used sludge ash as a replacement for natural aggregate resources. These man made aggregates are used to build asphalt roads, bricks, cement etc. Some data suggests it might actually be a stronger material in some cases, because they can customize the size and shape of the pellet to reach the optimal results. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_17_1365611793431_1142" style="background-color: transparent;">Seeing that Waterloo
Region's sludge treatment plant is in it's early planning phase, it is currently the most cost efficient time to look into the possibility of partnership ventures to explore aggregate production opportunities. I think it would be beneficial for our community to have a source of localized renewable gravel creation while offsetting damages to our local groundwater and surface water resources. </div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_17_1365611793431_1142" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_17_1365611793431_1142" style="background-color: transparent;">Waterloo Region is the largest region in Canada dependent on groundwater and we are the second largest <span id="yiv2054821350misspell-1" class="yiv2054821350">food belt</span> in Ontario. Our prosperity is directly linked to our natural aggregate deposits, sediment type and natural biota. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Waterloo
Region is rich with raw materials to work with from sludge ash to farm and food wastes. The Grand River Watershed's cattle industry produces manure equal to a population of 5 million people. We can offset these otherwise harmful waste materials to create heat energy as well as renewable aggregates while protecting the moraine and Lake Erie from phosphate, nitrates and hormonal issues etc. It's do-able but we need the aggregate industry to work with us to help make it happen. Waste heat can be recycled to power our community. The liquids from sludge can create methane for energy. Steam processes clean the soot before emissions are released and even that soot that can create whatever size aggregate materials we need. Metals once bound in the form of aggregate will not leach as they would in landfills or as partially treated sludge on fields. They are bound in the rock and can be used as construction materials. </span></div><div
class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_17_1365611793431_1142" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_17_1365611793431_1142" style="background-color: transparent;">In the attachment is a power point featuring an incineration system for municipal waste materials in Sweden which could also be used to manage Ontario's landfill materials, sludge, manure and food wastes. Please view the power point called: Aggregate Creation.</div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_17_1365611793431_1142" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_17_1365611793431_1142" style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/aggregatecreation">http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/aggregatecreation</a><br></div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_17_1365611793431_1142" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div
class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_17_1365611793431_1142" style="background-color: transparent;">We must engage other ministries to have input on the revision of the Aggregate Act. It's not only about sediment and gravel, it's about jobs, municipal water supplies, flow and flow rates impacting biodiversity and fisheries, agriculture, public health, food and water security, economic security and energy resilience as well as energy generation. </div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_17_1365611793431_1142" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="yiv2054821350yui_3_7_2_17_1365611793431_1142" style="background-color: transparent;">Creating a closed looped system for aggregates and harvesting energy from it is the way of the future. In the age of climate change, it is a vital concept to embrace if we are to secure localized gravel resources and energy security for the long term. </div><div style="background-color:
transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Thank you kindly for your time.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Louisette Lanteigne</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">700 Star Flower Ave.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Waterloo Ont.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">N2V 2L2</div></div></body></html>