IMPORTANT NEWS: The City of Brampton has just released their peer review reports (June 2011). Please take a moment and head over to Brampton's Norval Quarry project website to read what Brampton's consultants think of this proposal. Please click here to be sent directly there.
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Of the 1.8 million acres of protected Greenbelt land in Ontario, only 577 acres are in Brampton.
This is only 0.0025% of the total Greenbelt area
Relatively small & scarce, Brampton's Greenbelt area performs a critical ecological function. This area follows the Credit River watershed and its tributaries and wetlands, but is under stress from growing urban development. The Credit River is cold water fish habitat, a wildlife movement corridor, within a Provincially significant wetland. The Greenbelt around Norval is in close proximity to the growing urban areas of N.W. Brampton & Georgetown, and performs a significant ecological function. Locating a quarry in this area is not a good choice of sites.
The proposed aggregate extraction area is in close proximity to the historic Village of Norval, a recognised tourism area, and an existing community.
