(Click here for a PDF version of this topic. Download the excerpts from the links below.) The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO), in his 2009-2010 Annual Report issued September 2010, made mention of the efforts to protect Leitrim Wetland. Besides reporting that a leave to appeal to the Environmental Review Tribunal had been granted on…
Leitrim Wetland
On March 9, 2009, at the invitation of Peter Taylor, the Ministry of Environment official responsible for issuing Permits To Take Water at Leitrim, some of the Friends of Leitrim Wetland met with him and several of his colleagues at MOE. Officials from the Ministry of Natural Resources, the South Nation Conservation Authority and Fisheries…
While an application to take water over the next ten years is still pending, the developers of Findlay Creek Village have filed yet another short-term application, so they may dig a deep trench to start the final major phase of their development. The application was posted on the EBR web site under EBR # 010-5426….
On October 14, 2008, it was decided to abandon our appeal of the latest, and supposedly last, short-term permit to pump water at Leitrim Wetland. The Permit was valid until September 30 and the Ministry has given strong indication that no extension or further short-term permit will be issued. Another short-term Permit, which came to…
On December 9, 2007, the Friends of Leitrim Wetland issued a second media release, encouraging the public to object to a new proposal for a Permit To Take Water at Leitrim Wetland that would see 17 million litres of water per day drained from the wetland for the next ten years. This is the equivalent…
At its meeting of 13 April 2011, Council asked Legal Services to review the policy on seeking costs from public interest litigants that was adopted in February 2009. The direction to staff was: “That the City Solicitor review the policy on seeking cost awards as it relates to various cases, including the Friends of Lansdowne…
Following the discussion at Corporate Committee on February 17, there was a host of media scrums by both English and French media, print, radio and television. Found and heard: “Seek legal costs from litigants, council told – Environmental group argues policy would bankrupt it” by Jake Rupert, Ottawa Citizen, 16 February 2009, (Feb 17 print…
Charges under the Ontario Water Resources Act Taggart Construction Limited, Michael E Taggart, 1374537 Ontario Limited, and Findlay Creek Properties Ltd. are charged with: 1) one offence under section 98(2) of the OWRA, highlighted in yellow below under the following provisions of the OWRA: Obstruction 98. (1) No person shall hinder or obstruct any provincial…
Protect Leitrim Wetland: please write to the Ministry of the Environment to oppose the developers’ application for a 10-year drainage permit (deadline: October 16). On July 11, 2008, developers submitted a proposal to pump up to 17 million litres per day for ten years from the Leitrim Wetland area (EBR # 010-4134). The Greenspace Alliance…
OTTAWA CITY COUNCIL 25 February 2009 ANDREW S. HAYDON HALL 10:00 a.m. DISPOSITION 61 CORPORATE SERVICES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE REPORT 37 MOTION – POLICY ON SEEKING COST AWARDS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS AS AMENDED That Council confirm its policy on seeking cost awards after successfully defending its positions against community and resident public interest groups such…