Conservation authority

Efforts to protect local turtle populations in Gray County took center stage during a celebration at the Bogner Marsh Management Area.

The Gray-Sauble Conservation Authority welcomed volunteers, project partners, and Indigenous collaborators to mark the success of its Echoes of the Marsh project, funded by the Greenbelt Foundation.

A highlight was unveiling six new educational signs created in partnership with the Indigenous partners.

The installation includes original artwork and cultural content.

It'll spur to get things going.

But Hamilton's delays on approvals, on the illogical delays that come forth from the Conservation Authority, from the Niagara Scarborough.

And I'm somebody who is very in tune and sympathetic to environmental issues.

But some things that they object on make no logical sense.

If you'll indulge me, there are a couple of proposed development projects right at the gateway.

of downtown Dundas on Coutts Drive, so the former Canadian Tire property, and where the current beer store is, which is pretty much across the road and slated to close.

They are both halted from development and can't move their paperwork forward because the Conservation Authority says they exist in a flood zone.

Okay? Talk to the Conservation Authority.