Aggregate & Mining (546 articles) 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.
|  | The Ontario government is using a rarely-used provincial power to prevent St. Marys Cement from developing a quarry in Flamborough.At a news conference at his Waterdown constituency office April 21, Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale Liberal MPP Ted McMeekin announced the Liberal government has declared the Ontario Municipal Board hearing reviewing an application by St.... (more) | | Aggregate & Mining Development & Land Use Drink Environmental Law Hamilton and Region Ontario |
|  | The Ministry of the Environment is moving forward with the next step in the Deloro Mine cleanup process.Danford Construction of MADD was awarded an $844,000 contact to upgrade the 1.7-kilometre mine access road last year. With the road complete, the next phase of the project, construction of three engineered caps to isolate and contain wastes, can begin, a ministry... (more) | | Aggregate & Mining Fish Quinte Region Waste Management |
| | | Lake Ontario Waterkeeper has filed a formal objection to the application by 3191574 Nova Scotia Company (aka The Highland Companies) for a Class A licence to remove more than 20,000 tonnes of aggregate annually from a pit or quarry in Melancthon Township. Our objection reads as follows:BY MAILCraig Laing, Aggregate Inspector
Ministry of Natural Resources, Regional... (more) | | Aggregate & Mining Fish Groundwater Ontario Research |
|  | Comments are due by May 16, 2011Proposed Niagara Escarpment Plan Amendment PH 185 10 (Protecting Escarpment Rural Land)Protecting Escarpment Rural Land (PERL) has submitted an application to amend the Niagara Escarpment Plan (NEP) to re-designate approximately 82.3 ha (203 ac.) from Escarpment Rural Area to Escarpment Natural Area and Escarpment Protection Area on Part... (more) | | Aggregate & Mining Development & Land Use Environmental Law Hamilton and Region |
| | | January 31, 20114:15 pmReturning from their deliberations, the Chair explains that the hearing will proceed with the traditional mode for this hearing. Nelson must call its case, and any witnesses called in reply must be limited to replying (i.e. they cannot raise new issues).To clarify, Mr. Northey stood to note that, if we were in court, reply would be restricted... (more) | | Aggregate & Mining Fish Hamilton and Region Nelson Hearing Waterkeeper Publications |
| | | The Ministry of the Environment (MOE) is proposing amendments to Regulation 171 under the Consolidated Hearings Act (CHA) to streamline the process by which Aggregate Resources Act (ARA) matters are consolidated with Niagara Escarpment Planning and Development Act (NEPDA) matters at a Joint Board hearing. Specifically, the proposed regulation amendments would make it automatic... (more) | | Aggregate & Mining Drink Environmental Law Fish Ontario |
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