Re Aggregate issues in…

Re Aggregate issues in general: I believe people understand the need for aggregates, I believe people and aggregate operators can co-exist in harmony, if provincial "Social Distancing' is applied to both; many of of the objector's concerns re air, water, noise issues can easily be resolved by instituting a defined spacing between the two- as an example 500 m distance from any individual house as 'undisturbed lands' and 1000 m from the urban boundary for gravel pits, more distancing for bed-rock blasting. Air/water/noise/Species at Risk issues should still be handled by Best Practices/Best Efforts by the operators and vetted by the experts.

A question if I may, I had commented in the past on recycling asphalt (RAP) in situ at aggregate operations. The current proposed amendment to allow for storing up to a maximum of 5000 tonnes of Asphalt is a satisfactory compromise. Given the current application by a local pit, owned by an asphalt company, to store up to 60,000 tonnes of asphalt, will the proposed amendment be applied to this application, and, moreover to other existing and new licenses, grand-fathered or retroactive?

Thanks