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The Ontario Realty Corporation development plans forge ahead on karst lands

In spite of The Hamilton Conservation Authority’s resolution based on scientific reports that lands adjacent to the Eramosa Karst Conservation area be preserved; and, in spite of the City of Hamilton’s New Official Plan designation of Core Natural Heritage Area for these lands; and, in spite of strong public support for the preservation of these lands, the Ontario Realty Corporation (ORC) continues to spend hundreds of thousands of tax payer’s dollars on studies aimed at supporting their goal to pursue intense development on this sensitive area. READ FOTEK press release

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Provincial Karst Managers Critizied

June 25 2009 - CATCH

Brad Clark says the Ontario Realty Corporation “misrepresented” city documents at a June 17 meeting on the Eramosa Karst lands. The provincial land management agency is also being criticized by a citizen’s group trying to have karst feeder lands permanently protected – an 80 acre parcel that the ORC wants the city to remove from a protected designation. Full Article

Garlic Mustard- Damaging Native Plant life in the Karst Read More

Karst wages battle against "pecky plant's" chemical warfare.
Garlic Mustard invasive species growing in Karst.
June 5 2009 Stoney Creek News

East Hamilton Mountain Heritage Society support FOTEK

Province's Karst housing studies fall Short; HCA boss says
May 15 2009 Stoney Creek News
The province has yet to make an adequate case for selling land it owns
by the Eramosa Karst to homebuilders, according to a preliminary review by the Hamilton Conservation Athority.
City also opposes development. Read More

Eramosa Karst still in Limbo
Apri 22, 2009
The fate of eighty acres of karst lands in upper Stoney Creek remain will remain in limbo until at least November. Councillors and residents are awaiting peer reviews of technical studies done for the Ontario Realty Corporation which owns the lands and wants to sell them for development. Read more-Citizens at City Hall

Hudak Fights for Local Environment, Jobs
Sat Feb 28/09
Tim Hudak, MPP Niagara West-Glanbrook, continued to advocate for the protection of environmentally sensitive land and local job creation as he attended events throughout the riding last week Read more

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	The Ontario Realty Corporation development plans forge ahead on karst lands In spite of The Hamilton Conservation Authority’s resolution based on scientific reports that lands adjacent to the Eramosa Karst Conservation area be preserved; and, in spite of the City of Hamilton’s New Official Plan designation of Core Natural Heritage Area for these lands; and, in spite of strong public support for the preservation of these lands, the Ontario Realty Corporation (ORC) continues to spend hundreds of thousands of tax payer’s dollars on studies aimed at supporting their goal to pursue intense development on this sensitive area. READ FOTEK press release Latest NEWS: Provincial Karst Managers Critizied June 25 2009 - CATCH Brad Clark says the Ontario Realty Corporation “misrepresented” city documents at a June 17 meeting on the Eramosa Karst lands. The provincial land management agency is also being criticized by a citizen’s group trying to have karst feeder lands permanently protected – an 80 acre parcel that the ORC wants the city to remove from a protected designation. Full Article Garlic Mustard- Damaging Native Plant life in the Karst Read More Karst wages battle against "pecky plant's" chemical warfare. Garlic Mustard invasive species growing in Karst. June 5 2009 Stoney Creek News East Hamilton Mountain Heritage Society support FOTEK Province's Karst housing studies fall Short; HCA boss says May 15 2009 Stoney Creek News The province has yet to make an adequate case for selling land it owns by the Eramosa Karst to homebuilders, according to a preliminary review by the Hamilton Conservation Athority. City also opposes development. Read More Eramosa Karst still in Limbo Apri 22, 2009 The fate of eighty acres of karst lands in upper Stoney Creek remain will remain in limbo until at least November. Councillors and residents are awaiting peer reviews of technical studies done for the Ontario Realty Corporation which owns the lands and wants to sell them for development. Read more-Citizens at City Hall Hudak Fights for Local Environment, Jobs Sat Feb 28/09 Tim Hudak, MPP Niagara West-Glanbrook, continued to advocate for the protection of environmentally sensitive land and local job creation as he attended events throughout the riding last week Read more . More - news
	Welcome to our newest Supporter !! Hamilton Mountain Heritage Society The Hamilton Conservation Authority is calling on the McGuinty government to increase the size of Stoney Creek's Eramosa Karst park. Directors last week unanimously passed a resolution opposing the Ontario Realty Corporation's plans to sell 80 acres of land to the immediate east of the park to home builders..see more Hamilton’s newest: Eramosa Karst Conservation Area is not fully protected (July 2008) The Hamilton Conservation Authority has just celebrated its 50th Anniversary with the opening of Ontario’s first designated (ANSI) provincially significant Area of Natural and Scientific Interest- The Eramosa Karst Conservation Area. A wonderful and unique area with caves, sinkholes, sinking streams creating a sensitive and evolving ecosystem. In October 2006 the Government of Ontario donated 180 acres (approx 73 ha, = 37% of entire ANSI) of these lands to the Hamilton Conservation Authority to be preserved as a conservation area. The transferred lands included Karst features and a small buffer area surrounding them. However, the feeder lands,(80 acres, = 18% of entire ANSI) east of the Eramosa Karst are presently owned by the Ontario Realty Corporation. These lands are also part of the ANSI. At the recent - June 2008, public consultations, the ORC indicated clearly that in spite of significant public support and expert opinion behind the expansion of the Conservation Area to include these 80 acres into the preserved area, the agency is steamrolling ahead with its intention to prepare the lands for sale for development. The time has come to speak up and convince the Provincial government, the City of Hamilton and potential developers of the necessity to protect these lands from further development encroachment by transferring the remainder of the Karst feeder areas to the Hamilton Conservation Authority. Join Friends of the Eramosa Karst in this effort.
	FOTEK Mission Statement:The Friends of Eramosa Karst is a strong, non-profit, community voice of citizen supporters , advocating for the transfer of the remaining karst feeder lands,to the Hamilton Conversation Authority. This area is 80 acres of environmentally important land on the eastern border of the existing Eramosa Karst Conservation Area.
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July 19 2009

The Hamilton Conservation Authority is calling on the McGuinty government to increase the size of Stoney Creek's Eramosa Karst park.