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Amazon decides not to build controversial warehouse on protected Pickering wetlands
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In a huge win for the environment, it appears that a massive warehouse that Amazon had planned to construct on protected wetlands near Toronto is not going to happen after all.
The development was one of many that Ontario Premier Doug Ford is quickly approving over the heads of municipalities and without usual due process through the use of Ministerial Zoning Orders (MZOs).
The highly controversial MZOs are used to fast-track new projects without the usual steps involved in such endeavours, like public consultation or even communicating with the municipality involved at all.
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Ford government steamrolling opposition to Pickering wetland development, protesters say
Citizens of Pickering and environmentalists protested against the development project on the Lower Duffins Creek wetland on Thursday by gathering outside the offices of the company that owns the land.
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Posted: Mar 12, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: March 12
The Triple Group of companies is proposing to build the largest retail warehouse in Canada on this Pickering property, roughly half of which is classed as a provincially significant wetland. This view looks toward the southeast, with Squires Beach Road and Bayly Street in the background forming the boundary of the site. (Patrick Morrell/CBC)