Hello, We moved to Caledon,…

Hello,

We moved to Caledon, with the knowledge of the current aggregate operations. We do not want to have to deal with more noise, more trucks, more dust, blasting, flying rocks, and certainly not the loss of more land. We moved here for the nature, the quiet village.. we don’t want to have to listen to more of these operations, and we do not want to see an increase in trucks on the road.

I support the recent letter and supporting documentation sent to you by the West Caledon Communities Aggregate Group (July 28th, 2021).

I respectfully request,

- that the MECP remove the unwarranted exemption from application of the Area of Influence (AOI) and Minimum Separation Distance (MSD) in the Guideline to land use decisions for new or expanding aggregate operations proposed near sensitive land uses.

- that MECP acknowledge “flyrock” (the ultimate adverse effect of blasting quarry operations) as a contaminant, pursuant to the 2013 Supreme Court of Canada ruling in Castonguay Blasting Ltd. v. Ontario (Environment);[1] and

- that MECP’s AOI (Area of Influence) and MSD (Minimum Separation Distance) apply to all major facilities, including new and expanding quarry operations, and sensitive land uses.

[1] Castonguay Blasting Ltd. v. Ontario (Environment), 2013 SCC 52 (CanLII), [2013] 3 SCR 323, <https://canlii.ca/t/g1038&gt;, retrieved on 2021-07-12