THE PROBLEM
Ontario’s environment includes some of Canada’s best farmland, abundant freshwater and one of the world’s largest protected Greenbelts. But our environment is under threat from the Ontario government. Environmental rollbacks are allowing more sprawl to pave over prime farmland, aggregate operations to threaten water supplies and industry operations to threaten endangered species.
The Solution
When we protect local food, a stable climate, and thriving greenspaces, we can ensure a healthy future for all Ontarians.
You can help protect Ontario’s environment
You can help protect Ontario’s environment
The Ontario government’s environmental rollbacks are threatening the future of farmland, clean water and endangered species. Find out how you can help protect Ontatio’s environment.
Stop Highway 413
Stop Highway 413
Highway 413 (GTA West) will pave over farms, forests, wetlands and a section of the Greenbelt, while doing little to ease traffic congestion. Ontario must cancel this redundant $6 Billion dollar highway.
Stop the Big Sprawl
Stop the Big Sprawl
Increasing density in existing urban areas, instead of building low-density sprawl on green space, will help preserve farms and forests, combat climate change and improve quality of life.
Protect the Greenbelt
Protect the Greenbelt
Ontario’s Greenbelt helps prevent flooding, fights climate change, provides us with local food and preserves beautiful natural heritage areas we can all enjoy. Let’s make sure it stays protected.
RUNNING LIST OF ENVIRONMENTAL ATTACKS
RUNNING LIST OF ENVIRONMENTAL ATTACKS
We compiled a record of environmental roadblocks caused by the provincial government.
PROPOSED HWY 413 MAP
PROPOSED HWY 413 MAP
View the areas of communities, wetlands, forests and farmland that will be destroyed by Hwy 413.
The Greenbelt: What's next?
The Greenbelt: What's next?
Learn about the multiple avenues that we can follow together to slow, halt and reverse the damage the provincial government has inflicted.
Review of Housing Report
Review of Housing Report
Expanding development beyond existing boundaries is not needed- let alone into the protected Greenbelt.
Latest News
Environmental Defence experts react to the 2023 Ontario budget
Statement welcoming the new federal study to address threats to Rouge National Park and key portions of the Greenbelt removed by the Ontario government
What the Heck’s a DRAP?: A Brief Recent History of the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve, from The Rouge Duffins Greenspace Coalition (RDGC)
The Golden Horseshoe Needs Zoning Reform, Not the Removal of Greenbelt Land: Thoughts on interpreting data from the Alliance for a Livable Ontario and the Regional Planning Commissioners of Ontario
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