Policies & Threats Related to Greenspaces
Goulbourn Wetlands Complex Chalk River radioactive waste disposal facility Chaudière Islands Ottawa on-side with Windmill (October 2014) Chaudière Islands: A letter (26 Jan 2016) & updates Order-in-Council on land transfers (December 2017)
New updated content: 2018-02-26 18:01:20 We signed on, with eight other local organizations, to a letter to MP Greg Fergus providing additional information on the nuclear waste being stored at Chalk River and proposing a meeting to fully brief him on the dangers of the current decommissioning plan. New updated content: 2018-04-23 11:06:41 Chalk River update, April 23 event We signed on to a letter to the International Atomic Energy Association
New updated content: 2018-02-26 18:01:19 We wrote to the Chairman of the Environment and Climate Protection Committee explaining what has been happening and requesting that he look into enacting an interim control bylaw to prevent further wetland loss. Response from staff indicate that this mechanism is not applicable in this case and that enforcement of wetland protection rests with the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority. The only real option seems to be
At our May 2017 monthly meeting, Ole Hendrickson, on behalf of Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area, presented slides on Radioactive Wastes at Chalk River Laboratories. The deadline for comments was originally set for August 3, but the French version of the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was not available until later, so the deadline is now August 16. Here is the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission‘s press release of
At the instigation of environmentalists, in 2003 the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources evaluated the Goulbourn wetlands and found them to qualify as a Provincially Significant Wetland. The City was ordered to modify its Official Plan to reflect this status. Some landowners decided to erase all vegetation, in an effort to frustrate this designation. The City initiated an Official Plan Amendment but in July 2006, as a result of lobbying
April 19, 2017 Ken McRae reports: I was informed today that the MVCA had appealed the decision of a local Justice of the Peace to not order landowner Mion and his numbered company to rehabilitate the part of the Goulbourn Wetlands Complex on his property which he had destroyed. The MVCA won the appeal. I’ve attached a copy of the court decision in which Mion and his numbered company are
On November 23, city planner Cathlyn Kaufman wrote to the Alliance: (posted on November 30) Good Afternoon Here is the Head’s Up Notice for a rezoning for the subdivision known as Rideau Forest Phase 7: Head’s Up Notice.doc Location Map.pdf. The complete circulation will follow next week. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Regards Cathlyn Cathlyn Kaufman, MCIP, RPP Planner City of Ottawa –
