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Appeal of Water Taking Permit at Leitrim Settled On March 23, 2010, the Environmental Review Tribunal accepted a settlement that had been reached between the developers of Findlay Creek Village and the Appellants (the Greenspace Alliance and Sierra Club Canada) acting on behalf of the Friends of Leitrim Wetland. In July 2009, the Tribunal had granted leave to appeal a 10-year Permit To Take Water on three narrow grounds. Ever since,

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iWEBAPP March 23, 2010 December 3, 2024

Appeal of the 10-year PTTW (May – Aug 2009)

On May 20, 2009 the Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital and the Sierra Club Canada filed an application with the Environmental Review Tribunal for Leave to Appeal a 10-year Permit To Take Water issued on April 27, 2009. They also filed a Motion for an Interim Stay. (Supporting the Motion was an Affidavit sworn by Erwin Dreessen – 497 KB.) That motion was denied because the Tribunal concluded it had

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iWEBAPP August 26, 2009 December 3, 2024

Leave to appeal cost award

On December 19, 2008, on the heels of action at the municipal level, the Greenspace Alliance, represented by Ecojustice, filed an application for Leave to Appeal the award of costs issued by the Divisional Court on December 10. The application to the Ontario Court of Appeal asserts that the Divisional Court made errors of law, as well as errors of mixed facts and law in awarding costs against the Greenspace

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Claudia Ruiz December 19, 2008 December 3, 2024

Appeal of “last” short-term Permit abandoned

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 light only recently, is for surface water diversion (up to 32.4 million liters/day) and remains

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Claudia Ruiz October 14, 2008 December 3, 2024

Leave to appeal the PTTW to the Environmental Review Tribunal

On Tuesday, March 11, the Greenspace Alliance and the Sierra Club filed for Leave to Appeal a Permit to take Water issued by the Ministry of Environment on February 22. The permit would allow withdrawal of up to 17 million litres per day until September 30, 2008, in order to allow laying of water and sewer mains in Phase 2 of the Findlay Creek Village development. A summary of the

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iWEBAPP March 16, 2008 December 3, 2024

OMB dismisses our appeal

May 26, 2007 The Ontario Municipal Board devoted four days (May 22 to 25, 2007) to a hearing on the merits of a motion by Tartan and the City to dismiss our appeals of two zoning by-laws.  The Member is Marc Denhez. We are very fortunate to have been represented at this hearing by Linda McCaffrey, Director of the University of Ottawa’s Environmental Law Clinic, who is providing pro bono

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Claudia Ruiz May 26, 2007 December 3, 2024

Second appeal of Leitrim rezoning

Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital P.O. Box 55085, 240 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1A1 Phone: (613) 733-7727 E-mail: admin@greenspace-alliance.ca Web site: www.greenspace-alliance.ca Sierra Club of Canada 412-1 Nicholas Street Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 7B7 Phone: (613) 241-4611 Fax: (613) 241-2292 E-mail: info@sierraclub.ca Web site: www.sierraclub.ca/national 11 April 2007 BY REGISTERED MAIL Patrick Hennessy Secretary Ontario Municipal Board 655 Bay Street, Suite 1500 Toronto, Ontario M5G 1E5 Dear Mr. Hennessy: Subject:

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Claudia Ruiz April 11, 2007 December 3, 2024