The Forks of the Credit Preservation Group has achieved a major victory as the Ontario Land Tribunal dismissed major aggregate producer CBM’s Appeal and upheld the town of Caledon’s Aggregates Reform Interim Control By-law.
CBM Aggregates appealed Caledon’s ICBL to the Tribunal, claiming it was limiting “the economic well-being of the province and GTA, because, as CBM’s planner testified, aggregate reserves that are “close to market” are critically low.”
FCPG intervenors in the Appeal presented compelling evidence that the industry’s claims of an aggregate supply shortage are false, which the Tribunal acknowledged. The hearing revealed that Ontario has licensed more than 13 times the amount of aggregates needed to meet the construction industry’s average consumption of 165 million tonnes per year.
