Please find below my comments on the draft Ontario Forest Sector Strategy.
At the core of any such strategy must be a commitment to protect biodiversity.
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Under the action/pillar "reducing regulatory burdens for industry to access wood", my comment is that forestry regulations have an important purpose - to regulate the harvesting of wood so as to reduce harmful impacts to the environment and by expansion to air quality, wildlife, biodiversity health,
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At the core of any such strategy must be a commitment to protect biodiversity.
Unfortunately, the proposed Ontario Forest Sector Strategy does not implement limits on habitat loss to protect and recover species at risk.
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In 2020, the idea of pushing ahead with more environmental destruction, and ignoring the needs of endangered species is ludicrous. We need more protected areas, not fewer. We need more sustainable jobs, not more environmentally destructive ones.
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Joe Maure
Forest Sector Strategy - Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
70 Foster Drive, Suite 610
Sault Ste Marie , ON
P6A 6V5
Canada
Submitted Online Via the Environmental Registry of Ontario
Re: Support for Ontario’s Forest Sector Strategy, ERO# 019-0880
Mr. Maure,
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Joe Maure
Forest Sector Strategy - Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
70 Foster Drive, Suite 610
Sault Ste Marie , ON
P6A 6V5
Canada
Submitted Online Via the Environmental Registry of Ontario
Re: Support for Ontario’s Forest Sector Strategy, ERO# 019-0880
Mr. Maure,
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Joe Maure
Forest Sector Strategy - Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
70 Foster Drive, Suite 610
Sault Ste Marie , ON
P6A 6V5
Canada
Submitted Online Via the Environmental Registry of Ontario
Re: Support for Ontario’s Forest Sector Strategy, ERO# 019-0880
Mr. Maure,
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At the core of any such strategy must be a commitment to protect biodiversity.
Unfortunately, the proposed Ontario Forest Sector Strategy does not implement limits on habitat loss to protect and recover species at risk.
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None of this is good for the people and land of Ontario. Less trees equals more climate impacts and if anyone should be taking care to protect wildlife it’s the companies who profit off the land. The ecosystem needs all of its players to succeed.
I support a long-term solution for the forest sector which recognizes the Crown Forest Sustainability Act (CFSA) as an equivalent process to the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Some of the advantages that will be realized by the proposed changes for are streamlining Forest management plan preparation, including removing the opportunity for individual environmental assessments (“bump-up” requests).
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I support a long term solution for the forest sector which makes the CFSA and EAS equivalents. The CFSA allows multiple forest values and endangered species to be considered while still allowing development and implementation of forest practices and plans.
I strongly support the proposed Ontario's Forest Sector Strategy which recognizes the Crown Forest Sustainability Act as an equivalent process to the Endangered Species Act.
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Please don't open old growth forests to logging. Yes, we need wood products, but we should be turning underused land into forests, not logging our last little pockets of true biodiversity. Especially at a time when our forests are increasingly threatened by wildfires.
You did not consult environmentalists on this. This is 2020 and the world is on fire. We do not have any time left, we have ZERO time left, for cutting down more trees. We need to be planting trees, not cutting them down. This is not an opportunity for Ontario families.
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This project is clearly more of a profit-making effort for the few, yet again. There are myriad options to counter plastic without the continuing rapacious mentality of capitalism that would clear out entire ecological systems for a dollar.
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This is a horrible policy that does not serve Ontarians and threatens to commit irreversible environmental damage for no conceivable reason. This government must not he allowed to destroy the land Ontarians depend on to satisfy their patrons' impulsiveness.
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