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Approval was granted for a licence amendment to allow Ron Harkness, operating in the Municipality of South Bruce to increase the maximum number of tonnes of aggregate to be removed from the site in a calendar year from 50,000 tonnes to 90,000 tonnes.

Approval was granted for a licence amendment to allow Miller Paving Limited to increase the number of tonnes of aggregate to be removed annually for Licence No. 3851, operating in the Greater Sudbury, Sudbury Region.

The Statements of Environmental Values of the former Ministries of Culture and Tourism have been replaced with a single Statement of Environmental Values for the Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries that reflects MHSTCI’s name, structure and mandate.

Approval was granted for a licence amendment to allow Lafarge Canada Inc., operating in the City of Hamilton to increase the maximum number of tonnes of aggregate to be removed from the site in a calendar year from 900,000 tonnes to 3.49 million tonnes.

We have amended the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016. These changes enable Ontario’s producer responsibility framework to be more responsive to the needs of business and allow government to assess the effectiveness of any future changes to the framework.

Approval was granted for a major site plan amendment to allow Kurtis Smith Excavating Inc. to permit below water extraction at licence No. 625365, operating at a site in Township of Grey.   

The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks has amended the Emissions Performance Standards (EPS) and greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting programs to clarify requirements, improve efficiency and address fundamental changes in some Ontario industries.

Approval was granted for a licence and site plan amendment to allow 1595479 Ontario Limited to increase the number of tonnes of aggregate to be removed annually for Licence No. 3601, operating in Ramara Township, Simcoe County.

Approval was granted for the amendment to allow James Thoume Construction Ltd. to increase the annual tonnage limit of aggregate to be removed for a pit operating in the Township of Centre Wellington.

Approval was granted for a site plan amendment to allow Dufferin Aggregates, A Division of CRH Canada Group Inc. to make several changes to their operational and final rehabilitation plan.

GHBLAF Holdings Inc. was approved to amend their site plan to reduce the excavation setbacks in the north east corner of the licensed site.

The application which E.S. Johnston Farms Ltd. submitted to amend their current site plan to revise the phasing of extraction on site, has been approved.

Ontario has made changes to O. Reg. 106/09 under the Nutrient Management Act, 2002 to update the process for getting verification certificates and verification statements, which will allow farmers and businesses to show that the incinerators are of a type that can comply with specified operational requirements in the regulation.

Approval was granted for a site plan amendment to allow 1559300 Ontario Limited to amend the current site plan to allow 21,120,000 cubic meters of excess soil to be imported to return the site to the original grade in the Township of Darlington.

Approval was granted for a site plan amendment to allow 2223117 Ontario Inc. to integrate operations between the existing Aggregate Resources Act (ARA) licence No. 4945 and the approved expansion ARA Licence No. 625996, operating in the Town of the Blue Mountains.

Approval was granted to Cedarwell Excavating Ltd. to temporarily increase the number of tonnes of aggregate to be removed from a licensed pit in the Municipality of West Grey.

We are improving forest management planning in Ontario by removing the duplication between the Environmental Assessment Act requirements and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry’s policies, regulations and guidelines.

Approval was granted for a site plan amendment to allow Owen Sound Ledgerock Ltd. to extract below the water table in the Town of South Bruce Peninsula, Bruce County.

​​We are moving forward with regulatory amendments to enable Metrolinx and other transit authorities to make changes to sewage and water works more easily, helping to deliver transit projects faster while maintaining environmental oversight.

The Ministry updated the Ontario Building Code to allow 18-storey Encapsulated Mass Timber Construction (EMTC) buildings. These changes expand the use of mass timber in various building types, reduce drywall encapsulation, speed up construction, minimize site disruption, and offer environmental benefits.