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Leitrim Wetland in the media

Following our Action Alert and Media Releases, media coverage has included the following: + The News EMC, Ottawa South Edition, 15 November 2007 + David Yazbeck, host of Thursday mornings’ Special Blend on CKCU (93.1 fm), interview with Erwin Dreessen, 29 November 2007. + Local news, CBC Radio 1, 4:30 and 5:30 p.m., 29 November 2007, with excerpts from interview with our legal counsel, Linda McCaffrey, by Giacomo Panico. +

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Claudia Ruiz December 23, 2007 December 3, 2024

Screening Report Deficiencies

Because fish habitat is involved in the proposed Leitrim developments, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has been the lead agency to assess the environmental impacts. They chose to initiate a Screening Report, merely a preliminary action as opposed to a full environmental assessment. The Friends of Leitrim Wetland and other experts have analysed the screening report and identified the following deficiencies: – the original scope of the

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Claudia Ruiz July 12, 2007 December 3, 2024

Saving Leitrim Wetland

Introduction and Background Located in the southern part of the City of Ottawa, Leitrim Wetland is one of Canada’s finest examples of a complex wetland ecosystem and has been identified as a North American “biodiversity hotspot”. According to the Canadian Wildlife Service, “Leitrim Wetland is clearly an area of outstanding ecological significance”. Aside from containing a range of plants that is unparalleled in North America, Leitrim Wetland supplies cool, clean

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Claudia Ruiz October 12, 2006 December 3, 2024

Highlights of concerns about development in Leitrim Wetlands

– The proposed development will adversely affect the Leitrim Wetlands and have a significantly negative effect on Findlay Creek and the local water table. – The area to be re-zoned for development includes a major part of an identified Urban Natural Area, the loss of which would result in significant decline in wildlife, especially birds, and would be contrary to Ottawa’s Official Plan objective to increase forest cover. – There

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Claudia Ruiz May 14, 2006 December 3, 2024