"St Marys Cement has abandoned its appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), deciding instead to take its quest for a quarry in Flamborough to court.
The aggregate company, which wants to establish a 150-hectare limestone quarry on 11 Concession Road East and Milburough Line, (Hamilton) announced last Thursday that it will submit an application for a judicial review to the divisional court of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in an effort to quash the Ontario government’s ministerial zoning order of April 2010 and the government’s recently announced provincial declaration of interest.
In a brief statement issued last Thursday, St Marys reiterated its stance that the quarry “would provide local jobs and investment, be operated to the highest environmental standards, and would serve the needs for high quality aggregate to build schools, hospitals and roads in southern Ontario at a reasonable cost to taxpayers.”
Full article is at this link: http://www.flamboroughreview.com/news/article/297250
Well if Ontario stopped using aggregates maybe they would go away.........you figure it out...
ReplyDeleteTo June 1 @10:30 am, HUH?
ReplyDeleteThe "bad Smell" wont go away because there is a great need and nearing shortage of limestone and other aggregates. Why would a company with so much invested "go away", especially when the government is not playing by the rules.......
ReplyDeleteI can see this one costing the provincial government alot of cash, for their actions..
Actually, there is enough aggregate withing 75 km of the GTA to last for the next 25 years (State of Aggregate Resources in Ontario Study.) So, the aggregate companies can just get their greedy asses in gear and spend some money researching and developing the recycling of used aggregate from demolished bridges, buildings etc. instead of burying it in the ground and then rushing to dig up prime agricultural land for more.
ReplyDeleteI believe if you did your homework you would knowthat the aggregate and constuction industry do recycle the majority of the old concrete and aggregates. And that is fine if your tearing down a old bridge to build a new one, but where does the aggregate come from for new roads, bridges, houses(1,000s of them), schools, hospitals....... If you really think recycling aggregate will supply 100% of the 90 million tonnes a year consumed, you best wakeup!
ReplyDeleteYou will need to stop ALL growth in Southern Ontario if you dont want any new pits or quarries....that is the reality.
That's right June 16 1:29, zero growth is the only solution and... the correct one. There is sufficient to be sustainable if change is made now, barely. The old and foolish ways have brought the world to this point. Please wake up.
ReplyDeleteHey 1:29 do your own homework! Corporations don't recyle the majority of aggregate, not even close. You think I don't know what is used to build roads and buildings?! Research this: 1)the percentage of prime farmland left in Canada and the rate at which it is disappearing 2)fresh water supplies in the world and the rate at which they are disappearing. Then cry me a river over the need for aggregate.
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