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erators. Champlain Township Mayor Gary Barton raised the issue during the counties coun- cil’s Nov. 13 committee of the whole ses- sion. Mayor Barton noted that the counties and both Alfred-Plantagenet Township and The Nation Municipality should see more local benefits for their municipal roadworks programs from all the heavy truck traf- fic that results from peat moss harvesting in the bog. The Alfred Bog spans the two neighbouring municipalities. “We should be getting something for our peat moss,” Barton said. “Natural resources leave our counties. We maintain the roads,
but we get nothing out of it.” UCPR Planning Director Louis Prévost told the assembled mayors that the peat moss extraction issue has come up during past Official Plan review and strategic planning sessions for the counties. “Right now there’s nothing in the legisla- tion,” he said. “It’s a land consumption mat- ter.” ARA controls and regulates aggregate operations on Crown and private lands. It requires any licensee or aggregate permit holder to pay an annual fee to municipali- ties as part of their operations expense. But the definition for “earth” in the legis-
lation concerning aggregate resource ex- traction does not include topsoil and peat moss. So peat moss harvesters working a peat bog in Ontario are exempt from the Act and do not have to pay permit fees to municipalities where the bog is located. UCPR Public Works Director Marc Cler- mont noted that the counties receive half a cent per tonne of aggregate under permit from gravel and quarry pit operators work- ing in Prescott-Russell. Mayor François St-Amour of The Nation noted that local governments help support the aggregate industry through their road- work and other infrastructure programs. “Maybe there is no provincial policy now,” St-Amour said. “But it doesn’t stop us from asking. We still have to maintain the roads.” “Maybe we don’t get much,” said Barton. “But we should get something.” Counties council gave unanimous con- sent during its Nov. 27 regular session to a resolution administration presented calling on the provincial government to amend the aggregate resources regulations and make peat moss harvesters subject to the same permit fee setup as other aggregate extrac- tors. FINCH | The Alfred Bog is getting some special attention from local scientists. Resource staff at the South Nation Con- servation Authority (SNC), in partnership with Carleton University, are doing a hy- drology study of the Alfred Bog to identify areas in the bog where water loss has the most impact on local plants and animals. The study will help the SNC target future restoration work on the bog. The Alfred Bog is one of the largest, and most unique, peat bogs in southern On- tario. SNC is getting help on the hydrology study from the Eastern Ontario Water Re- sources Committee and the City of Ottawa for buying meteorological station equip- ment to measure solar radiation, rain and snowfall, humidity, temperature and wind as they affect the bog. Information from the monitoring station will also aid the SNC’s ongoing drought and flood control moni- toring programs for the South Nation River watershed. Bring back Junior Forest Rangers Any Canadian who was a child in the 1960s watched The Junior Forest Rangers on CBC. Now there’s a movement on to bring the 70-year-old provincial program back after the Ontario government cancelled it last year. The United Counties of Prescott- Russell is joining Uxbridge Township in resolutions of support for the Friends of the Ontario Ranger Program lobby (FORP). The group is pressing the Natural Resources Ministry to restore the program to active status in next year’s provincial budget as a youth employment and recreation service. Alfred Bog under microscope
GREGGCHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
L’ORIGNAL | If gravel haulers have to pay for quarrying rock in Prescott-Russell, then peat moss harvesters should do the same while working in Alfred Bog. The United Counties of Prescott-Russell council (UCPR) will lobby Ontario Natural Resources for changes to the Aggregate Resources Act (ARA) to put peat moss ex- tractors on the same level playing field for permit fees as other aggregate resource op-
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