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Aggregate & Mining
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The aggregate industry is one of the largest resource-based industries in the Province of Ontario. By some estimates, Ontarians consume 170-million tonnes of aggregates each year, creating roads and buildings. This billion-dollar industry also excavates and devastates many of our most precious natural areas. In southern Ontario, the Niagara Escarpment is dramatically impacted by aggregate excavation – many of these stories are filed in the Hamilton Region.
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Comment Period: 32 days: submissions may be made between August 12, 2010 and September 13, 2010.
Dufferin Aggregates has applied for an Aggregate Resources Act licence for a Class “A” Quarry below Water to excavate mineral aggregate from a quarry of 124.4 hectares in size. This application is for the expansion of an existing quarry. The annual tonnage condition applied... (more)
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This notice is for your information. The Environmental Bill of Rights does not require this notice to be placed on the Environmental Registry; however, section 6 of the Act does allow the Environmental Registry to be used to share information about the environment with the public.
The Ministry of Natural Resources is posting this notice to advise the public of the release of... (more)
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Walker Aggregates has filed an application to amendment current Permit to Take Water #2755-6ZVJAL for dewatering of with the following requested taking:
Source Name/Description: 4 quarry ponds MNS sumps
Source: Pond
Specific Purposes: Dewatering of Pits and Quarries
Maximum taken per minute (litres): 10,000
Maximum number of hours taken per day: 24
Maximum... (more)
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Stephen Harper has the summer to decide whether hundreds of new jobs created by a proposed $800-million copper-gold mine in the struggling British Columbia Interior outweigh the significant negative environmental impacts, including the destruction of a fishing lake.
A federal review panel ruled late Friday that the Prosperity copper-gold mine would have “significant... (more)
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The Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel Association renewed lobbyist registrations for Jessica Annis and Moreen Miller to lobby the following government departments:
Ministry of Natural Resources Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing Ministry of the Environment Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure Ministry of Northern Development Mines and Forestry Ministry of Transportation... (more)
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Dufferin Aggregate renewed the registration for Dave McCleary to lobby Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of the Environment, Office of the Premier and Cabinet Office, Environmental Commissioner regarding "Issues surrounding zoning orders, aggregate industry and related issues, Milton Quarry & Acton Quarry."
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Re: Quarry president responds to Harmer’s comments (Burlington Post, May 12)
We are profoundly disappointed with the ill-informed and demonstrably false comments in Mr. (Norm) Elmhirst’s letter earlier this week.
Mr. Elmhirst would like the public to believe that Protecting Escarpment Rural Lands’ (PERL) environmental claims are “unsubstantiated” and motivated... (more)
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