Retired geoscientist Dr. Larry Jensen addresses the issue of licensed aggregate reserves and provides some recommendations to balance current reserves with required reserves.
As he states in his paper "It is of great importance to Ontario that the ARA is able to manage its need for aggregate reserves in an efficient manner that serves the province’s needs for balance and sustainability. Over licensing of aggregate reserves can be just as harmful as under licensing of aggregate reserves to Ontario’s well-being and economy."
Blasting Quarries: Land Use Compatibility Issues
This research paper was submitted by local resident and former FCPG board member Tony Sevelka.
"Aggregate resources are essential for road and building construction. But, it is also recognized that a quarry blasting below the water table is one of the most noxious, toxic and destructive uses of land, with no reasonable prospect of post-extraction rehabilitation. If permitted and established in the wrong geographic location, a blasting quarry operation can result in significant deleterious impacts on the
environment and local inhabitants and can disrupt short and long-term land use planning objectives."
Flyrock and Other Impacts from Quarry Blasting Operations
This research paper was submitted by local resident and former FCPG board member Tony Sevelka specifically as an Objection Response to the 2022 Nelson Aggregates Quarry Application. It is broadly relevant and contains all the papers he has written on this topic over the past three years.
"This submission and the research papers should be of interest to MNRF and all the citizens of the municipalities in Ontario that are currently being confronted by quarry applications, and that lack an awareness and understanding of the adverse effects caused by Blasting Quarry Operations."
This research paper was submitted by local resident and former FCPG board member Tony Sevelka.
"Aggregate extraction operations are notorious for causing significant environmental
damage, often permanent and irreversible, and when permitted in the wrong geographic
locations nearby property owners are adversely and uniquely impacted. Through no fault
of their own conduct, innocent property owners near an aggregate extraction operation
experience a diminished quality of life, lose the full use and enjoyment of their properties,
and sustain a reduction in the value of their properties, for which no compensation is
received."