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Aldershot Quarries, Burlington

A map of the Aldershot Quarries shows were a new extraction site is planned for lands to the east. The area is located just north of North Service Road in Burlington. (source)

Meridian Brick (formerly Forterra Brick formerly Hanson Brick)

In 2015 the neighbours started hearing about Hanson Brick’s plan to clear-cut approximately 40 acres of prime forest to expand its commercial shale quarrying operations (the east cell) beside the residential Tyandaga neighbourhood in Burlington, Ontario.

Meridian has had two active quarries in the area for decades and has a licence for this third quarry since 1972.  However, this “dormant” licence has since become adjacent to a residential neighbourhood.

Aldershot Quarry has been in operation under successive owners since the 1920s, with a single licence issued under the Pits and Quarries Control Act in 1972.

Licence #5500

Rehabilitation

According to the site plan finalized in 2010 under the Aggregate Resources Act, the entire east quarry will be rehabilitated in accordance wit the Greenbelt Plan to 100% forest cover.

The Westhaven Drive subdivision was constructed well after the quarry property had been licenced for aggregate extraction.

Timeline (chronological order)

Date	Event
	Hanson became Forterra (forterrabrick.com) became Meridian Brick
2015-09-22	Forterra Brick held neighbourhood meeting – announces plans to activate 1972 licence
2016-12-08	Forterra Brick, Ltd. Permit to Take Water (expires March 31, 2022) EBR #012-9261
2017-05-25	Meridian Brick’s Community Meeting

NEWS (current news first)

Date	Source	Title	Comment
2018-06-05	InHalton.com	Here’s What MPP Candidates Say of Plans to Cut Thousands of Trees in Burlington	Alan Kan
2018-01-19	Thespec.com / Hamilton Spectator	Burlington quarry opts to mine closer to subdivision, sparking residents’ fury	Carmela Fragomeni
2017-12-06	Inhalton.com	Burlington Residents Up in Arms Over Plans to Cut Thousands of Trees	Alan Kan
2017-11-30	CBC	Indigenous artifacts found on site of controversial Burlington quarry expansion	Samantha Craggs
2017-07-22	GoFundMe.com	Save Burlington’s Greenbelt!
2017-05-31	InsideHalton.com	Burlington quarry not put on hold by Ontario ministry	John Bkila
2017-05-24	MetroNews.ca	After finding endangered salamanders, locals fight to stop Ontario quarry project	Liam Casey, The Canadian Press
2017-05-23	Burlington Gazette	The issue: Which is more important, mining shale to make bricks or the 6000 – 9000 trees that will have to be cut down to mine that shale. Think climate change while you muse on the question.	Pepper Parr
2017-03-08	Toronto Star	Burlington to close road ahead of endangered salamander crossings	Liam Casey, The Canadian Press
2017-01-15	Change.org	Petition:  Meridian Brick plans to clear-cut Burlington’s forest.  Stop them.	Tyandaga Environmental Coalition
2017-01-15	Vimeo / TEC	Forest vs Quarry (30 secs)	Tyandaga Environmental Coalition
2017-01-03	PRNewswire.com	Boral® Bricks and Forterra Brick Announce Name of Joint Venture: Meridian™ Brick
2016-09-06	Toronto Star	Quarry quarrel: Site expansion plans pit residents against brick company	Christopher Reynolds (Metronews.ca)
2015-04-09	InsideHalton.com	Hanson Brick plans new shale quarry on west Burlington lands	Michael Gregory, Burlington Post

More Information:

http://bit.do/stopthem

Tyandaga Environmental Coalition

@TECburlington / www.tecburlington.com

For other “dormant” or “sleeper” quarry issues:

Paris pit proposal

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