The Idea of Using “Biodiversity
Offsetting” to Gut Natural
Wetlands for Urban Development is
Not New in Niagara / Dr. John
Bacher
Currently those advocating “bio-diversity
offsetting”, claim that it is intended to help farmers,
not developers.
One of the remaining wooded wetland area in Niagara,
Ontario. How long will it be spared from destruction for more
sprawling development?
However, in 2008 this concept was first put
forward to assist an urban development proposal in
Niagara Falls, Ontario known as “Thundering
Waters.”
In November 2015, when Ontario’s provincial
government had a public consultation on the review
of its wetland policy, the only person who spoke in
favour of the province changing the rules to permit
such offsets was a developer associated with the
same project.
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