The wetlands that are…

The wetlands that are located within the requested zoning change area need to be protected completely.
While the licence is stating to remove 20,000 tonnes of aggregate annually; I have read and wrote down that they want to remove 750,000 tonnes annually. I either read the amount of tonnes within a news article or within the lengthy staff information report No. 2020-002 that was provided to the council of the Township of Wilmot (after this matter was posted on the ERO).
All the studies appear to be prepared on behalf of Jackson Harvest Farms Ltd. and to be paid for by the applicant for the licence to remove aggregate and the request to rezone the lands from agricultural to a zoning identification that would permit extraction of aggregate (industrial ?).
It is hoped that a Ministry would complete or at least review the studies completed as it is very difficult for the public to raise funds in order to hire legal representation, get expert advice and/or some type of environmental study completed.
Is another quarry licence actually needed to meet the needs of aggregate within the area of the Region of Waterloo - through looking at information about quarries and the aggregate industry there does appear to be more than ample operational quarries already to meet the needs of many communities. In other words, there appears to be a plethora of aggregate quarries within southern Ontario.
Also, concerns surround who monitors the operation; it does not appear that the MNRF or MECP has enough field staff to inspect quarries and quarry operations on a regular and random basis and too often the owner of the quarry is monitoring itself ( the fox watching the hen house).
Taxpayers should not have to pay the bill for the damage done to roads from the frequency of heavy truck usage.
The loss of one's property values in the communities that are impacted by an aggregate operation will result in less tax dollars paid to the town and/or region.
Also, I strongly feel that due to risk of environmental harm that any concrete and/or asphalt recycling or manufacturing would be better suited to be done on brown fields and not on virgin lands (agricultural) or in any quarry where an aquifer could be at risk of contamination or any quarry where 'run off' (i.e. rain etc) could place surface water/drainage areas at risk of contamination.