The original Picton Terminals site is divided into two parcels, one zoned MX-Industrial, and the other zoned RU1, or Rural. That portion also happens to sit in Sophiasburgh, while the first parcel is in Hallowell. In 2018, Ontario Superior Court Judge Wolf Tausendfreund ruled that the only legal non-conforming use permitted on the Sophiasburgh property […]

It all comes down to what neighbour John McKinnon calls an error by the Ministry of Natural Resources. When pit 2907 changed hands, its license was transferred from John Leavitt to Ellbrook Excavating. Site inspection documents from Leavitt’s operation of the pit state that extraction below groundwater is not permitted under the license.  But when […]