This consultation was open from:
March 26, 2019
to April 26, 2019
Decision summary
An amendment to existing Environmental Compliance Approval No.1702-AYJP3G is granted to Canopy Growth Corporation for stormwater management facilities serving greenhouses at Tweed Farms, located at 405 and 453 Concession 5 Road in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara.
Location details
Site address
405 & 453 Concession 5 Road
Niagara-on-the-Lake,
ON
L0S 1J0
Canada
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Canopy Growth Corporation
1 Hershey Drive
Smiths Falls,
ON
K7A 0A8
Canada
Decision details
An amendment to existing Environmental Compliance Approval No.1702-AYJP3G is granted to Canopy Growth Corporation for stormwater management facilities serving greenhouses at Tweed Farms, located at 405 and 453 Concession 5 Road in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara.
The approved stormwater management facilities include roof water drainage pipe systems connected to underground cisterns equipped with overflow piping and a stormwater detention pond serving expanded greenhouse development, as well as roof water drainage pipes connected to underground cisterns and stormwater drainage pipes serving existing (pre-expansion) greenhouse. They will discharge to the existing watercourse on site which is a tributary to Four Mile Creek #5 Municipal Drain.
Supporting materials
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135 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
301 St Paul Street
Floor 9, Suite 15
St Catharines,
ON
L2R 7R4
Canada
How to Appeal
This instrument decision can be appealed. You have 15 days from March 3, 2020 to begin the appeal process.
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Appeal process for decisions published before June 1, 2021
If you’re an Ontario resident, you can start the process to appeal this instrument decision.
First, you’ll need to seek leave (i.e. get permission) from the relevant appellate body to appeal the decision.
If the appellate body grants leave, the appeal itself will follow.
Seek leave to appeal
To seek leave to appeal, you need to do these three things:
- prepare your application
- provide notice to the minister
- mail your application to three parties
1. Prepare your application
You’ll need to prepare an application. You may wish to include the following things in your application:
- A document that includes:
- your name, phone number, fax number (if any), and/or email address
- the ERO number and ministry reference number (located on this page)
- a statement about whether you are a resident in Ontario
- your interest in the decision, and any facts you want taken into account in deciding whether you have an interest in the decision
- the parts of the instrument that you’re challenging
- whether the decision could result in significant harm to the environment
- the reason(s) why you believe that no reasonable person – having regard to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind – could have made the decision
- the grounds (facts) you’ll be using to appeal
- the outcome you’d like to see
- A copy of the instrument (approval, permit, order) that you you are seeking leave to appeal. You’ll find this in the decision notice on the Environmental Registry
- Copies of all supporting documents, facts and evidence that you’ll be using to appeal
What is considered
The appeal body will consider the following two questions in deciding whether to grant you leave to appeal:
- is there is good reason to believe that no reasonable person, with respect to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind, could have made the decision?
- could the decision you wish to appeal result in significant harm to the environment?
2. Provide your notice
You’ll need to provide notice to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks that you’re seeking leave to appeal.
In your notice, please include a brief description of the:
- decision that you wish to appeal
- grounds for granting leave to appeal
You can provide notice by email at minister.mecp@ontario.ca or by mail at:
College Park 5th Floor, 777 Bay St.
Toronto, ON
M7A 2J3
3. Mail your application
You’ll need to mail your application that you prepared in step #1 to each of these three parties:
- appellate body
- issuing authority (the ministry official who issued the instrument)
- proponent (the company or individual to whom the instrument was issued)
Canopy Growth Corporation
1 Hershey Drive
Smiths Falls,
ON
K7A 0A8
Canada
Environmental Review Tribunal
Attention: The Secretary
655 Bay Street
Floor 15
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca
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Original proposal
Proposal details
Description of instrument
This proposal is for a new Environmental Compliance Approval for a proposed stormwater management facility serving the existing greenhouses, as well as a future expansion to the south greenhouse for Tweed Farms at 453 and 405 Concession 5 Road in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara.
The stormwater management facility includes roof water drainage pipe systems connected to underground cisterns equipped with overflow piping and a stormwater management dry pond.
It will discharge to the existing watercourse on site which is a tributary to Four Mile Creek #5 Municipal Drain.
Other information
Environmental Compliance Approvals (ECAs) for greenhouse stormwater management facilities follow a streamlined process set forth in the Guide: Obtaining Approval for a Greenhouse Stormwater Management Facility. Many greenhouses for which applications are being submitted have already been in operation for several years; most stormwater management systems for greenhouses are not highly complex; and the ECAs are being submitted as part of a ministry abatement action plan to address water quality issues as quickly as possible. Therefore, the Director feels a 31-day comment period is sufficient for this and all other greenhouse stormwater ECAs applications as opposed to the 45-day comment period used on other types of ECA applications.
Supporting materials
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Some supporting materials may not be available online. If this is the case, you can request to view the materials in person.
Get in touch with the office listed below to find out if materials are available.
135 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
301 St Paul Street
Floor 9, Suite 15
St Catharines,
ON
L2R 7R4
Canada
Comment
Commenting is now closed.
This consultation was open from March 26, 2019
to April 26, 2019
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