Title
WCS Canada Comments - Draft Far North Land Use Strategy - January 2014
Author(s)
Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Justina Ray, and Jenni McDermid
Published
2014
Publisher
[Correspondence]
Abstract
Under the Far North Act, 2010, the MNR are mandated to develop a Far North Land Use Strategy to address issues that go beyond the current scope of community-based land-use planning such as climate change and cumulative effects. We are concerned that current legislated approaches to environmental planning cannot meet the ecological objectives under the Far North Act. The Far North Land Use Strategy provides an important opportunity to create an alternative planning approach that acknowledges and addresses the risks associated with introducing new development into this ecologically important, but environmentally sensitive, region. We discuss issues that should be addressed by the MNR to meet objectives under the Far North Act, 2010 including: protected areas planning and the cumulative effects of industrial development; Ontario's current policy commitments to conserving woodland caribou and lake sturgeon; climate change adaptation and mitigation; and, environmental monitoring.
Full Citation
[Correpondence] Chetkiewicz, Cheryly, Ray, Justina and McDermid, Jennie (2014). An Introduction to the Far North Land Use Strategy (Ontario EBR Registry Number: 012‐0598)
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