Protect North Dumfries

STOP
the Edworthy West gravel pit

The North Dumfries Conservation Alliance needs your donations to appear at the Edworthy West OLT hearing this year. Please help us win this fight!

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Cause to Pause Campaign

CAUSE to PAUSE Campaign

North Dumfries Township is in Crisis, one of the top aggregate producers in Ontario, our Municipality currently has the greatest percentage of lands under Aggregate Extraction in Ontario. This is not sustainable! This is clearly a Cause to Pause.

North Dumfries, situated on the vital Paris Galt Moraine, is facing an environmental crisis. This unique landscape provides critical functions, such as flood prevention, water filtration, and wildlife habitat, but it’s being threatened by rampant aggregate mining. Each year, we lose more of our Prime Class 1 Agricultural Land, a resource that represents only 5% of Canada’s farmland and can never be replaced once mined. As one of the top aggregate producers in Ontario, North Dumfries has the highest percentage of lands under extraction in the province—posing a serious risk to both our environment and future.

In partnership with the North Dumfries Conservation Alliance, we are calling for an immediate pause on all new aggregate pits to allow for sustainable land-use planning that prioritizes the long-term health of our community.

We need your help to fund education, research, expert studies, policy development, and legal efforts to protect our rights to a sustainable future. Together, we can halt the destruction of our land and ensure a better future for all.

Donate now to support a sustainable future for North Dumfries.

STOP THE EDWORTHY WEST PIT

Cambridge Aggregates has applied for a license to operate a new Edworthy West gravel pit in the Township of North Dumfries. The proposal is to extract and transport the aggregate by truck for processing at the existing plant in the North Dumfries (Hanson) Pit, located just west of Fraserwood Cr, Cambridge, and from there to market via Cedar Creek Road – see the picture below. If this is approved it will be many more years of impacts for the residents of Cambridge:

·       noise and increased dust
·       dangerous driving conditions on Cedar Creek and Spragues Roads
·       disruption of agricultural land, sensitive ecosystems and groundwater
·       depression of property values

Please send as many Letters of Objection as possible to:

·       Brian Riddell, MPP ,  Brian.Riddell@pc.ola.org
· Hon. Mike Harris, Minister of Natural Resources, 416-314-2301, minister.mnrf@ontario.ca
·       Catherine Fife, MPP Waterloo, cfife-qp@ndp.on.ca
·       Sue Foxton, Mayor, sfoxton@northdumfries.ca

Dance Pit
Expansion on Cedar Creek Rd
29 hectares, within 60m of a Cambridge subdivision
OLT Hearing Aug 2025

Chudyk Pit
Approved gravel pit
40.4 hectares

46 +
Existing gravel pits in North Dumfries

Edworthy West
New gravel pit application
35.2 ha (86.98 ac)

Whistlebare
Expansion
21 hectares

10 million
Tons of aggregate to be extracted form Edworthy West gravel pit

In a letter to the ND Town Council....

"Some consideration should be given to working with the Ontario Farmland Trust and other experts to develop a long-term plan for agriculture and extraction so that there is a sustainable future for coming generations that does not strip the township of its economic opportunities through the loss of its prime agricultural lands and striking cultural heritage, natural systems and beauty.
Our younger generations are already looking at us to curb our consumerism and to leave them with sustainable economic benefits into the future. Again, to reiterate, the massive number of existing aggregate extraction pits in the Township of North Dumfries is something that should be setting off alarms. We would encourage Council to revisit imposing an interim by-law to pause any current or new applications for alterations including zone changes and commit to further study of the township’s cultural heritage landscapes and to the implementation of the resulting recommendations, designations, conservation and policies that are established to conserve and protect CHLs and heritage corridors through sensitive and sustainable development. " Robinson Heritage Consulting

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Cause to Pause Campaign

The North Dumfries Conservation Alliance is pleased to

announce our partnership with the Small Change Fund

in the launch of the ‘Cause to Pause’ Campaign.