Conservation Authority Changes Could Mean Consolidation

ABCA says it will closely follow province’s proposed changes to conservation authorities

EXETER – Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority officials say they are closely following the province’s recently proposed changes to conservation authorities and local watershed management.

Conservation Authority changes could mean consolidation

TORONTO – The provincial government announced proposed legislation that if passed, will place Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities under a single governing agency. The proposed changes may also result in some conservation authorities being merged.

GUELPH POLITICAST #493 – They’re Coming for the Conservation Authorities… Again (feat. Phil Pothen)

Since they resumed sitting the week after Thanksgiving, the Government of Ontario has been throwing a lot at us, and then on Halloween they proposed sweeping changes to conservation authorities in Ontario. If it feels like we’ve been here before we kind of have, and while conservation authorities have weathered provincial meddling before, can they survive it again? According to Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks Todd McCarthy, t…