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Friday, June 25, 2010 - Flamborough Review - Quarry opponents urged to keep fighting
Opponents of the Flamborough Quarry were advised last Tuesday not to assume that their battle is over despite the Ontario government's unprecedented decision two months ago to freeze the zoning on the proposed quarry site to agricultural and conservation management. Read the Full Article (42 KB) Thursday, June 17, 2010 - Flamborough Review - Quarry opponents advised to remain vigilant Opponents of the Flamborough Quarry were told Tuesday night not to assume that their battle is over despite the Ontario government’s unprecedented decision two months ago to freeze the zoning on the proposed quarry site to agricultural and conservation management. Read the Full Article (30 KB) Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - Quarry battle not over yet Residents opposed to a massive limestone quarry being dug in their midst are being told to remain on guard, even though the province has made the unprecedented move of freezing the agricultural zoning on the proposed site. Friends of Rural Communities and the Environment (FORCE), which formed to oppose the quarry, and its supporters, are pointing out the fight is not over yet because the quarry company is appealing the issue to the Ontario Municipal Board. Read the Full Article (117 KB) Thursday, June 3, 2010 - Flamborough Review - St Marys applies for permit Just two weeks after applying for revocation of a zoning freeze on the proposed Flamborough Quarry property in northeast Flamborough, St Marys Cement has applied for a permit to take water (PTTW) from the quarry property on 11th Concession Road East and Milburough Line. The application, submitted to the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) last Wednesday, requests a maximum of 70 days of round-the-clock pumping from three on-site wells at a maximum rate of 5,184,000 litres of water per day. It indicates the estimated start date of the pump testing as August 2 of this year. Read the Full Article (32 KB) Friday, May 25, 2010 - Ontario Farmer - Company appeals quarry ruling Multinational aggregates firm St. Marys Cement is appealing a provincial government order halting its controversial bid to build a linestone quarry in a farming area northeast of the village of Carlisle. Read the Full Article (175 KB) Thursday, May 13, 2010 - Flamborough Review - St. Marys launches appeal St. Marys Cement (SMC) announced Monday it is appealing the Ontario government's zoning freeze on the proposed quarry site in northeast Flamborough. The zoning order, issued April 13 by Minister of Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Bradley, effectively put a halt to the aggregate company's plan for a 150-hectare quarry at 11 Concession Road East and Milburough Line. Read the Full Article (31 KB) Thursday, May 13, 2010 - Flamborough Review - FORCE set to celebrate Provincial government intervention in the battle against the proposed Flamborough Quarry has given residents of northeast Flamborough reason to celebrate – and the festivities will begin this Sunday (May 16). Read the Full Article (28 KB) Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - St. Marys files appeal of order halting quarry St. Marys Cement has announced it is appealing the province's unprecedented order halting its attempts to build a limestone quarry in Flamborough. The Toronto-based company said it had filed an appeal yesterday with Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Bradley to have his zoning order quashing the quarry put before the Ontario Municipal Board for a hearing. Read the Full Article (41 KB) Thursday, April 29, 2010 - Flamborough Review - Correction Information in the April 15 and 22 issues of the Flamborough Review about the appeal process for the government’s zoning freeze on the Flamborough Quarry lands in northeast Flamborough was incorrect. There is a 30-day window from the time of the Ministerial Zoning Order (MZO) announcement until the Minister gives notice of his decision through the Ontario Gazette. Any person can request Minister Jim Bradley either revoke or amend the MZO at any time and, without waiting for the Minister's decision, can request that he refer the application to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). The province then has 30 days to declare a provincial interest with the final adjudication to be made by the Ontario Cabinet. Read the Full Article (27 KB) Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - FORCE News Ad - "Thank You" View the Full Page Ad (181 KB) Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - Opinion - 'The right thing:' Go away, SMC The article by John Moroz of St. Marys Cement (SMC) in The Spectator of April 20 (Flamborough Quarry "the right thing") reads as a one-sided criticism of the Ontario government's minister's zoning order, which after six years has called time on the Flamborough quarry proposal. His words, calling it "a grave error," reveal a chasm of thinking between the government, local councils and residents and an industry with a history of entitlement that would be the envy of a Wall Street banker. Read the Full Article (231 KB) Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - Ontario Farmer - Province rules against quarry plan in agricultural area. Carlisle - Farmers, villagers and country residents are ecstatic at an unprecedented order from the Ontario governmnet to halt an application by an aggregates company trying to establish a quarry in a heavily agricultural area northeast of Carlisle. Read the Full Article (1 MB) Friday, April 23, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - Opinion - St Marys should realize that application process can mean denial Re: Flamborough quarry 'the right thing' (Opinion, April 20) Someone needs to sit down with the folks at St. Marys Cement and explain what an application process may involve. The concept is that an application, with proper grounds, can be denied. Read the Full Article (47 KB) Friday, April 23, 2010 - Flamborough Review - PARLIAMENT HILL: Happy Earth Day to all Today is Earth Day and, this year, an estimated one billion people from 175 countries are expected to take a few minutes to recognize our environment. In the 20 years we have been celebrating Earth Day in Canada, the power of individual actions to help our environment has been a consistent message. Read the Full Article (29 KB) Friday, April 23, 2010 - Flamborough Review - Aggregate industry to take on province The aggregate industry is preparing to square off with the Ontario government over last week’s decision by Jim Bradley, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MMAH), to freeze zoning on the proposed Flamborough Quarry site. The move effectively kills a proposal by St. Marys Cement (SMC) to establish a quarry at 11th Concession Road East and Milburough Line. While SMC has 30 days to appeal the decision to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), the company announced last week it is examining "legal options" in a bid to overturn the decision. As of Tuesday this week, St. Marys hasn’t determined what option to pursue, said company spokesman John Moroz, vicepresident and general manager of CBM Aggregates. Read the Full Article (33 KB) Thursday, April 22, 2010 - Halton Compass - Margaret McCarthy Ad This ad was printed in the Halton Compass as well as the Flamborough Review. View the Ad (863 KB) Thursday, April 22, 2010 - Halton Compass - St Mary's stopped by Province For those of you who forgot your Sunday School lessons, David did slay Goliath. He did it with an old-fashioned sling shot and ironically, a stone. Read the Full Article (3 MB) Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - Full Page Ministerial Zoning Order (MZO) View the Full Page Ad (650 KB) Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - Opinion - Flamborough quarry 'the right thing' Ontario consumes an average of 170 million tonnes of aggregate -- stone, sand and gravel -- annually, and this demand is growing. Due to limitations in supply and the rising cost of transportation over longer and longer distances, the cost of aggregate has been rising at 10 to 15 per cent per year. And much of this cost is being borne by taxpayers. Last Tuesday, St. Marys Cement learned of the government's decision to issue a "minister's zoning order" which, if allowed to stand, abruptly and permanently terminates our efforts to establish an aggregates quarry in Flamborough. Read the Full Article (129 KB) Friday, April 16, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - Quarry decision saves Hamilton taxpayers Re: 'How 'stop the quarry' group beat big business' (April 15) Taxpayers in Hamilton, you just received a huge gift from the dedicated, hard-working everyday people in Flamborough. Read the Full Article (87 KB) Friday, April 16, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - The high price of advocacy Protesters and placards make for good TV, but battling a multinational corporation and convincing government to take action takes professionalism, intelligence -- and money. The evidence is in this week's astonishing decision by the provincial government to accede to the demands of a Flamborough group, called Friends of Rural Communities and the Environment, or FORCE, and stop a proposed quarry pit -- a massive 25-year gravel operation -- in Carlisle. It is also seen in the continuing fight by Oakville residents against a proposed gas-fired generating plant there, which they say is too close for safety to homes, schools and rail lines, and will worsen an already-polluted airshed. While they haven't yet won the fight, they've made politicians listen. Read the Full Article (43 KB) Thursday, April 15, 2010 - Flamborough Review - Province quashes quarry plan As the Ontario government moved Tuesday to freeze the zoning on a 154-acre parcel of land in northeast Flamborough prohibiting St. Marys Cement (SMC) from using the lands for a quarry, the aggregate company responded swiftly saying it will examine legal options in a bid to overturn the government’s decision. MPP Ted McMeekin (Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale) announced the landmark decision outside his constituency office in Waterdown while a small crowd of 20 people looked on. There were hugs, kisses, handshakes and even tears as area residents reacted to the news. Read the Full Article (44 KB) Thursday, April 15, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - How 'stop the quarry' group beat big business They did stop the quarry. The neighbours who opposed a massive gravel operation in Flamborough, the civic officials who supported them and the politicians who took the case forward have shut down a corporation's bid to start a major new quarry on sensitive land. The local opponents coalesced around a simple slogan, "stop the quarry," but reaching their goal was far from simple and, until this week, still far from certain. Read the Full Article (77 KB) Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - Flamborough Review - EDITORIAL: David and Goliath At first blush, Tuesday’s announcement by MPP Ted McMeekin (Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale) that the provincial government has implemented a zoning freeze on the proposed quarry site in northeast Flamborough – effectively quashing the multi-million dollar St. Marys Cement project – might be cited as an example of David slaying Goliath. In fact, a victory of such mythical proportions takes a concerted effort on the part of a not inconsiderable army of passionate people. Read the Full Article (31 KB) Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - OSSGA Press Release - PROVINCE ‘CLOSED’ FOR BUSINESS Yesterday morning the Honourable Jim Bradley, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MMAH), issued a Minister’s Zoning Order that is intended to restrict CBM St. Mary’s proposed quarry in the former Town of Flamborough, ON. Read the Full Article (345 KB) Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - Province ends Carlisle quarry battle Wow. Stunned. Ecstatic. Those were among the wordsu sed by astonished community leaders when Liberal MPP Ted McMeekin announced the province had issued an unprecedented order halting St. Marys Cement's attempt to open a massive limestone quarry northeast of Carlisle. Read the Full Article (431 KB) Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - The Regional Municipality of Halton - Province Halts Quarry in Response to Halton Regional Council Resolution The province of Ontario has barred the development of a proposed quarry in the City of Hamilton, just west of the Halton Region and Town of Milton border after considering resolutions that were passed at both Halton Region and City of Hamilton Council meetings. Last year, St. Mary's Cement Group proposed a new quarry located north-west of the intersection of Concession 11 and Milburough Line in the City of Hamilton. After a series of public consultations, Halton Regional Council and the Chief Medical Officer of Health passed a resolution stating the quarry would cause potential groundwater contamination, damage to natural features and negatively affect traffic patterns. Read the Full Article (21 KB) Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - MPP - Ted McMeekin - Press Release - Province intervenes to prevent quarry development, Responds to community concern for groundwater conservation Today the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing issued a Ministerial Zoning Order (MZO) under Section 47 of the Planning Act to freeze the zoning of 154 hectares of land in the former Town of Flamborough. As a result, St. Mary's Cement Inc. is prohibited from using these lands for a proposed major quarry development. The MZO comes after concerns about the potential impact on groundwater raised by Hamilton City Council, the Halton Regional Council, local Medical officers of Health and countless citizens potentially impacted by the development. Read the Full Article (47 KB) Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing - Province Listens, Stops Proposed Quarry in Hamilton Ontario is not allowing the development of a proposed quarry in the City of Hamilton. A minister's zoning order permanently restricts the proposed quarry site in the former Town of Flamborough, now part of Hamilton, located near Milburough Town Line and 11th Concession Road East, to its current uses or ones that comply with its current zoning. Read the Full Article (17 KB) Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - Toronto Star - Quarry plan killed after six-year fight Astonished community leaders were "ecstatic" Tuesday after MPP Ted McMeekin announced the province had issued an unprecedented order halting St. Marys Cement's attempt to open a massive limestone quarry on a 15-hectare site in the former town of Flamborough. McMeekin said the province was responding to widespread concern about potential harm to groundwater supplying wells, wetlands and streams. Read the Full Article (139 KB) Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - Province says no to Carlisle quarry - St. Mary's Cement loses escarpment bid The provincial government has slammed the door on a plan to dig a massive quarry in Flamborough, northeast of Carlisle. Liberal MPP Ted McMeekin announced the decision at an 11 a.m. press conference Thursday. Read the Full Article (386 KB) Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - Flamborough Review - Quarry plans quashed In an unprecedented move, the Ontario government moved Tuesday to freeze the zoning on a 154-acre parcel of land in northeast Flamborough, prohibiting St. Marys Cement (SMC) from using the lands for a major quarry development. MPP Ted McMeekin (Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale) made the announcement of the landmark decision outside his constituency office in Waterdown as a small crowd of 20 people looked on. There were hug, kisses, handshakes and even tears as area residents reacted to the news. Read the Full Article (45 KB) Thursday, March 4, 2010 - Flamborough Review - Quarry objections confirmed At least 90 per cent of the original objectors to the St. Marys Cement (SMC) quarry application have reconfirmed their objections to the proposal. Friends of Rural Communities and the Environment (FORCE), a grassroots community group opposed to the quarry, announced this week that it has delivered almost 900 letters opposing the proposal to establish a quarry on 11th Concession Road East and the Milburough Line. The final total is expected to be even higher as these results don’t include objectors who sent reconfirmation letters directly to SMC and the Ministry of Natural Resouces (MNR). Read the Full Article (83 KB) Thursday, March 4, 2010 - Hamilton Spectator - Environmental Defence joins quarry battle The national non-profit group Environmental Defence is urging the Ontario government not to allow new quarries or quarry expansions in the Greenbelt and to extend greenspace protection into the Town of Oakville and Brant County. The quarry ban would affect both St. Marys Cement's plan for a large limestone quarry north of Carlisle in Flamborough and Nelson Quarry's bid to expand in north Burlington. Read the Full Article (146 KB) Thursday, January 28, 2010 - Flamborough Review - FORCE intent on meeting Feb. 1 deadline "Lets make sure the 1,200 objections stand." That was the parting message from Graham Flint to just over 200 guests who attended a community meeting in Carlisle last Wednesday. Hosted by Friends of Rural Communities and the Environment (FORCE), a citizens' group fighting a proposed quarry for northeast Flamborough, the meeting was called to remind area residents to re-state their objections to the Flamborough quarry plan by Feb. 1. By formally re-stating their objections to the plan to St. Marys Cement (SMC) and the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), residents not only reinforce their concerns about the proposal but also affirm their opposition to the aggregate licence application filed last year by SMC. Read the Full Article (84 KB) Thursday, January 14, 2010 - Flamborough Review - Quarry letters due Feb. 1 Post offices in Carlisle and Campbellville were busier than usual last week as hundreds of registered letters trickled in from St. Marys Cement (SMC), signaling the start of a new step in the company's pursuit of an aggregate licence. Read the Full Article (36 KB) Thursday, January 07, 2010 - Flamborough Review - Letter to Editor - Dig deeper on quarry issues I was disappointed to read the item last week about St. Marys Cement's plans to apply for yet another Permit To Take Water. Usually, I can count on having a balanced article in the Review, but this time there was no comment from Friends of Rural Communities and the Environment (FORCE). We need to read full reports about this project in our local newspaper. Read the Full Article (26 KB) Thursday, December 31, 2009 - Flamborough Review - SMC plans new tests St. Marys Cement (SMC) plans to resume pumping tests at its proposed quarry in northeast Flamborough in the coming year. Details of the pump testing aimed at proving that a Groundwater Recharge System will mitigate impacts on neighbouring wells and waterways will be outlined in the company's Permit to Take Water (PTTW) application to be submitted early in the new year to the Ministry of the Environment (MOE). Read the Full Article (30 KB) Saturday, December 26, 2009 - Hamilton Spectator - St. Marys OKs water testing - Quarry move reverses earlier stance St. Marys Cement is doing a sharp about-face on the controversial issue of water testing for its proposed limestone quarry northeast of Carlisle. In a surprise announcement, the company now says it will conduct pumping tests aimed at proving the feasibility of its plan to keep a 10-storey-deep pit dry without affecting area wells, wetlands and streams. Read the Full Article (47 KB) Thursday, December 10, 2009 - Flamborough Review - St. Marys delays registered letters until January With the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season close at hand, St. Marys Cement (SMC) has decided to delay its second round of response letters to area residents who have objected to their application for an aggregate licence. The company has plans to establish a quarry in northeast Flamborough. Registered letters, which were expected to follow within three weeks of the company's first round of responses to objectors, won’t be sent until early January, company spokesperson Melanie Horton said last week. She also explained that the first letters, sent out in late October, were mailed only to those who sent in a form letter of objection put together by the anti-quarry group, FORCE (Friends of Rural Communities and the Environment). Read the Full Article (83 KB) Thursday, November 5, 2009 - Flamborough Review - St. Marys responds to objection letters Members of a grassroots citizens' group opposed to a quarry proposal in northeast Flamborough are giving a cool reception to objection response letters from St. Marys Cement (SMC). Graham Flint, chair of the group called FORCE (Friends of Rural Communities and the Environment), said Tuesday that the letters fail to address residents' concerns and provide only "empty promises and assurances" about what the aggregate company will do to lessen the impact of the proposal on neighbouring residents. Read the Full Article (31 KB) Thursday, October 29, 2009 - Halton Compass - Force has residents out for a night on the town FORCE (Friends of Rural Communities and the Environment) Held its fourth Annual Gala Evening to Celebrate "Friends - A Vital FORCE in Our Community.. Read the Full Article (190 KB) Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - Hamilton Spectator - A FORCE to be reckoned with This David is armed with more than a slingshot. Flamborough's stop-the-quarry group FORCE is up against an industrial Goliath in St. Marys Cement, owned by a Brazilian multinational with annual revenue of $13 billion from cement, concrete, mining, metals, pulp, paper, orange juice, specialty chemicals and more. It even owns a bank. Read the Full Article (136 KB) Saturday, October 10, 2009 - Ontario Environment Commissioner Releases 2008/9 Annual Report Ontario Environment Commissioner, Gordon Miller, issued his Annual Report titled "Building Resilience". When we think of resilience, we generally think about the ability to bounce back from pressure. The Report documents that ecologists also use the term resilience in nature and they have developed a sophisticated interpretation of resilience and a field of study called resilience theory. For ecologists, resilience is the ability of an ecosystem to tolerate disturbance or disruption without totally collapsing and becoming something else; it is an inherent capacity to repair or rebuild. The ECO explains why we should pay close attention to this idea and apply it to the real environmental issues we face as a society. The report illustrates how some of the ecosystems we rely on may be losing their resilience and equally how it is important for citizens to be involved to protect our environment in terms of our societal resilience. The ECO notes that citizen groups fighting to protect natural areas can be easily intimidated because of the greater economic resources available to proponents, because of unequal power positioning with the approvals process favouring the development industry, and because of the legal tactics used against groups. The Big Bay Point development proposal and the proponent’s attempt to seek costs at the OMB is cited as an illustrative example. The ECO believes that citizen groups need to be put on a more equal footing with proponents and protected from the threats of SLAPP suits and similar legal manoeuvres. He makes recommendations for legislative change to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. The ECO also continues to document his ongoing concerns about the extraction of sand, gravel, and stone, and the key issues that are not fully addressed by the aggregate licensing and land use planning processes. The ECO again cites the Environmental Bill of Rights Registry application by FORCE and his recommendations that the government reconcile its conflicting priorities between aggregate extraction and the protection of identified natural heritage and source water protection features and that the government develop an early screening mechanism to weed out development proposals with these conflicts (report page 21). He talks about the Southern Ontario landscapes that are becoming pockmarked with pits and quarries, eventually becoming clusters of flooded holes and altered aquifers. He wonders if MNR is overestimating the resilience of such ecosystems. Are they likely to bounce back or are they being pushed beyond a recovery threshold? The ECO offers recommendations for a regional landscape based planning approach that incorporates assessment of cumulative socio-economic and environmental effects. He also calls for MNR to use its Statement of Environmental Values (SEV) when considering permits and licenses under the Aggregate Resources Act. Topics of interest include:
Thursday, September 24, 2009 - Flamborough Review - Letter - Objecting to St. Marys' numbers Re: St. Marys set to respond to rejection letters, Review, Sept. 18 Thank you for the ongoing commitment of your staff to reporting the battle that our communities are having with the proposal from St. Marys Cement to develop an industrial open pit mining operation on the 11th Concession in Flamborough. The most recent article quotes a representative from St. Marys Cement who deconstructed the numbers of objections received by identifying that the 1,185 received represented 617 addresses. Read the Full Letter (81 KB) Saturday, Septemer 19, 2009 - Hamilton Spectator - St. Marys' response under fire St. Marys Cement says it will respond within weeks to all 1,200 formal objections to its proposed quarry at 11th Concession East and Milburough Line. The move, announced in a community newsletter, surprised the anti-quarry group FORCE, which expected the company first to do groundwater testing deemed necessary by a number of public agencies, including the Ministry of Natural Resources, which issues aggregate licences. Read the Full Story (50 KB) Thursday, September 17, 2009 - Flamborough Review - St. Marys set to respond to objection letters Residents in northeast Flamborough will soon be receiving a community newsletter from St. Marys Cement (SMC) alerting them to the aggregate company’s next steps in support of its application for an aggregate licence for the proposed Flamborough Quarry. But even before the newsletter arrived in the mail, Graham Flint, the chair of the citizen's anti-quarry group FORCE (Friends of Rural Communities and the Environment), was criticizing the company for "accelerating the process" without first meaningfully addressing the community’s concerns about groundwater and transportation impacts of the proposal. Read the Full Story (30 KB) Thursday, July 30, 2009 - Flamborough Review - SMC, CART work on quarry haul route concerns In response to a City of Hamilton letter that questioned data, interpretation and findings in a draft haul route study by St. Marys Cement, the aggregate company has pledged to "work with the city to address their questions and concerns." "We don't see any insurmountable barriers or issues," SMC spokesperson Melanie Horton told the Review Wednesday when asked about the requests for more information about the proposed haul route coming not only from the city but also from three separate companies – IBI Group, Valcoustics and Dougan & Associates – that provided peer reviews on the study. Read the Full Story (85 KB) Thursday, July 23, 2009 - Halton Compass - Peer Reviews not favourable to St. Marys haul route study Three separate peer review companies have handed Hamilton their assessment of the propposed St Mary's quarry haul routes and the verdict was, "not enough information." Read the Full Story (254 KB) Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - Ontario Farmers - MNR wont' support quarry license Carlisle - Opponents of a bid by multinational firm St. Marys Cement to start a quarry in a farming are near Carlisle are buoyed by statements from two provincial ministries that the company should no be given a license until it has shown its operations will not harm area water features. Read the Full Story (2.76 MB) Friday, June 26, 2009 - Flamborough Review - McCarthy questions process Flamborough councillor Margaret McCarthy says Ontario’s process for awarding aggregate licences is stacked in favour of the aggregate companies and she wants to "shine the spotlight" on its flaws. To that end, she recently wrote a letter to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty criticizing "the lack of clarity" afforded to residents as they weave their way through the province’s Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) website while trying to understand how aggregate license applications are handled. Read the Full Story (88 KB) Thursday, June 25, 2009 - Halton Compass - MNR says no to St. Marys... for now To opponents of the St Marys' quarry application on the Flamborough-Campbellville border, it was a battle won. But there's still a war to be fought. Read the Full Story (426 KB) Friday, June 19, 2009 - Hamilton Spectator - Ministries hold off on quarry OK Two key provincial ministries say St. Marys Cement shouldn't get a quarry licence until it demonstrates it can operate without harming well water, wetlands or surface streams. That challenges the company's stated aim of obtaining a licence from the Ministry of Natural Resources, then performing water tests to get a pumping permit from the Ministry of the Environment. Read the Full Story (45 KB) Thursday, June 18, 2009 - Halton Compass - Councillor trys final appeal to McGuinty Flamborough Councillor Margaret McCarthy has now sent a third letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty, asking for his support against the St Marys' quarry application. Read the Full Story (168 KB) |
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