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An amended Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA) was issued to The Cathedral Church of St. James for a crematorium facility located at 635 Parliament Street in Toronto, Ontario to reflect the installation of two new cremation units and one cremains grinder unit.

The Ministry issued a Certificate of Property Use to The Corporation of the City of Niagara Falls. on December 16, 2021 outlining the risk management measures as outlined in the risk assessment for the site at 4555 Erie Avenue in Niagara Falls.

Ontario is continuing to ensure environmental protections are in place while simplifying self-registration requirements for small scale breweries.

The government has made changes that restore all 15 areas of land that were redesignated or removed from the Greenbelt in December 2022.

A declaration order has been issued to exempt a proposed transformer station at the Lake Erie Works steel plant in Nanticoke from the requirements of the Environmental Assessment Act.

No decision was made as the application was withdrawn on May 6, 2016.

We have approved the four regulated manuals under the Crown Forest Sustainability Act. The revisions align with the draft Forest Sector Strategy and reduce burden for the forest industry while continuing to provide for the sustainability of Ontario’s Crown forests.

We issued an Environmental Compliance Approval to Maple Transfer and Recycling Inc. (MTR) for the transfer and processing of non-hazardous solid waste, including construction and demolition waste, commercial and industrial waste, recyclable materials, wood waste, broken concrete, and excess soil at a site located in the City of Vaughan.

We have updated the Director’s Technical Rules for assessing source water protection vulnerability and risk under the Clean Water Act, 2006 to ensure that the quality of Ontario’s sources of drinking water continues to be protected and that source protection efforts are supported by current science.

A new ECA has been issued to Metis Nation of Ontario & Ontario Aboriginal Housing, for the establishment of sewage works, in support of a proposed Townhome Condominium Lot Development; for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of stormwater run-off from a site located at 331 Patrick Street.

We have not made a decision on the proposal. To keep the Environmental Registry current, we are closing this posting.

Ontario Parks has amended the Devil’s Glen Provincial Park Management Plan and has added 18 hectares (ha) of acquired land to the park. The approved management plan will protect nature and biodiversity, while also allowing for ecologically sustainable outdoor recreation to occur.

A new Environmental Compliance Approval No. 5051-BDWH3X was approved to Green Organic Dutchman Inc. for stormwater management facilities and discharge of wastewater from a Reverse Osmosis system, to service a greenhouse site.

The Protect Ontario by Securing Affordable Energy for Generations Act, 2025, (Act) was passed to advance the measures outlined in Ontario’s first Integrated Energy Plan, Energy for Generations. This Act enables the buildout of energy infrastructure to meet rising demand, support economic growth and create a self-reliant and resilient province.

Approval was granted for a site plan amendment to allow G. Tackaberry and Sons Construction Company Limited to amend the current site plan conditions to allow the importation of excess soils.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) and the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) have amended O. Reg. 267/03 under the Nutrient Management Act, 2002 (NMA) to make it easier for farmers to recycle food and organic waste with anaerobic digesters and participate in the growth of Ontario’s biogas sector.

On October 26, 2017, the Ontario government issued the 2017 Long-Term Energy Plan, Delivering Fairness and Choice. The plan focuses on making energy more affordable and giving you more options in how you use energy.

We have cancelled the Environmental Compliance Approval for Township of Red Rock, in Red Rock Ontario