September 11, 2025 - October 11, 2025 (30 days) Closed
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The decision is to refuse the renewal to Permit to Take Water No. 1066-BJAQXM for Bayou Cable Park Inc. for recreational purposes. Water was requested to be taken from two streams in The Blue Mountains, Ontario.
We updated the Guideline for Implementing Environmental Penalties to provide specific values of monetary penalties that may apply to petroleum facilities if they contravene sulphur dioxide regulations. We also removed references related to the repealed Effluent Monitoring and Effluent Limit regulations that applied to industrial facilities.
We would like to advise you that the 2020 – 2030 Forest Management Plan for the Algoma Forest has been approved by the Ministry’s Regional Director and is available for inspection.
On July 8, 2020, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing filed a Minister's Zoning Order with the Registrar of Regulations as Ontario Regulation 356/20 to permit employment uses on land in the Township of Perth South.
Instrument type:
Approval to amend a municipality’s official plan
ERO number
019-8676
Notice type
Instrument
Notice stage
Decision
Decision posted
Proposal posted
Comment period
May 24, 2024 - June 23, 2024 (30 days) Closed
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A decision was made on August 29, 2024, to approve the County of Simcoe Official Plan Amendment 8 as adopted by By-law No. 7053-24 without modification. Official Plan Amendment 8 re-designates 6.57 hectares of land from “Agricultural” to “Settlements” to facilitate a minor expansion to the rural settlement of Guthrie in the Township of Oro-Medonte.
August 15, 2025 - September 14, 2025 (30 days) Closed
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Permit to Take Water No. P-300-8369658816 was issued on December 19, 2025, to renew Permit to Take Water No. 1184-9Z4PEC for the purpose of golf course irrigation. Water will be taken from one irrigation pond and Lake Huron, for 10 years.
September 9, 2025 - October 9, 2025 (30 days) Closed
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This application is an amendment to Permit to Take Water No. 8284-APNPW6 for LANXESS Canada Co./CIE. Water will be taken from one watercourse and 16 wells for industrial remediation purposes, located in Elmira, Ontario.
August 9, 2023 - September 8, 2023 (30 days) Closed
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This notice was published in error and it is a duplicate of 019-7209. 019-7209 was posted on the Environmental Registry of Ontario on June 9, 2023, with a 30 day comment period ending July 9, 2023, and the decision was made to issue the mineral exploration permit PR-23-000154 to Metals Creek Resources on August 2, 2023.
Instrument type:
Approval to amend a municipality’s official plan
ERO number
019-5952
Notice type
Instrument
Notice stage
Decision
Decision posted
Proposal posted
Comment period
December 5, 2022 - January 4, 2023 (30 days) Closed
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A decision was made on April 11, 2023 to approve, with modifications, Official Plan Amendment 6 to the Regional Municipality of Waterloo Official Plan, as adopted by By-law 22-038. Official Plan Amendment 6 contains policies to guide growth and development within the Region to the year 2051.
The Director of Exploration has made a decision on the exploration permit application PR-21-000150 to Angus Gold Inc. for early exploration activities within the Mishibishu Lake Area.
We have issued a new Permit to Take Water No. 2857-C3SRFN on June 11, 2021, which cancels and replaces permit to take water No. 0776-BNNJGN, for Enbridge Pipelines Inc. located in the Township of South Glengarry, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario.
The new Permit to Take Water has an expiry date of December 31, 2024.
The Director of Exploration has made a decision on the exploration permit application PR-21-000167 to Harte Gold Corp for early exploration activities, in Cooper and Strickland townships, approximately 25 kilometres north of the Town of White River.
November 13, 2020 - December 13, 2020 (30 days) Closed
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This decision is for a new Permit to Take Water for The Eastbourne Community Association to take water from Lake Simcoe for the purposes of golf course irrigation and communal water supply. Permit No.0805-BWDMW4 was issued on December 22, 2020 for a period of 10 years.
August 28, 2020 - September 27, 2020 (30 days) Closed
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The Director of Exploration has made a decision on the exploration permit application PR-20-000231 to Eric Marion for early exploration activities is approximately 17 kilometres southwest of the town of Kirkland Lake, Ontario, in Eby township, District of Timiskaming, Northeast Region.
October 6, 2020 - November 5, 2020 (30 days) Closed
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The Director of Exploration has made a decision on the exploration permit application PR-20-000273 to LaSalle Exploration Corp for early exploration activities approximately 72 kilometres north east of Cochrane, Ontario, in Blakelock and Hoblitzell townships, District of Cochrane, North East Region.
