The Niagara Escarpment is under threat of development by the Ford government

There are 54 aggregate operations on the Niagara Escarpment including 17 with unlimited tonnage.

“A lot of wetland specialists and scientists are alarmed about what is going on with the changes to the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System (OWES), a tried-and-true classification system for wetlands,” said Mike Marcolongo, Keep the Greenbelt Promise Campaign Coordinator, in an interview with Small Change.

“We will be seeing an erosion in terms of wetland …