Municipal Action Plan

We created step-by-step plan for residents to engage their Councillors in strengthening protections for health and the environment from gravel mining. “The High Road: A Municipal Action Plan to Win a New Standard for Gravel Mining in Ontario” includes resources like talking points, draft resolutions, worksheets, case studies, and more.

The main tactic outlined in the handbook is to press pause on new gravel mining approvals using a planning tool called an Interim Control Bylaw (ICBL). The goal of this pause is for municipalities to work with residents to review and strengthen bylaws on aggregate extraction.

RGMC supports residents’ groups and municipal leaders who would like to consider an ICBL in order to strengthen protections from gravel mining in their communities. If you are interested, please contact our team.

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We acknowledge that we work on the Treaty and traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Treaty 13 and the Williams Treaties, the Treaty and traditional territory of Williams Treaty Nations (Alderville, Hiawatha, Curve Lake, Hiawatha and Scugog Island, Beausoleil, Georgina Island and Rama Island First Nations). Ancestrally this territory was home to other First Nations including the Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and the Pentun peoples. Today, this land is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. In addition, our work takes place nationwide, across all the Treaty and unceded lands of Turtle Island. We recognize, respect and strive to reconcile the inherent Aboriginal and Treaty rights of all the Indigenous peoples as upheld within the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Constitution of Canada.