var data = [ { "id": "8", "latitude": "43.866537", "longitude": "-79.95664", "spot_name": "Bluelands McCormick Pit, 17736 Heart Lake Rd.Caledon", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "Pitsense", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/www.pitsense.ca\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "Aggregate pit below the water table. May affect area wells and drinking water. New pit, first applied for in 2010. Re-application in 2018.", "status": "Provincial approval", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "0", "icon_air": "1", "icon_climate": "1", "added": "2019-05-12 14:26:08" }, { "id": "26", "latitude": "45.006452280671645", "longitude": "-79.33370373185983", "spot_name": "Bracebridge Wetlands Complex", "threat_level": "", "organization": "South Bracebridge Environmental Protection", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": " https:\/\/www.bracebridgewetlands.ca\/take-action.html", "organization_news": "", "issue": "The South Bracebridge Environmental Protection Group has appealed the approval of a for-profit boarding school - Muskoka Royale College - spanning 443 acres, home to 204 species (7 endangered including Blanding\u2019s turtles).\u00a0Despite public demand for environmental studies, Town council and District of Muskoka approved this development.", "status": "OLT Appeal September 2022", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2022-08-30 14:03:29" }, { "id": "17", "latitude": "43.78", "longitude": "-80.03", "spot_name": "Brook Trout - West Credit River", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "Ontario Rivers Alliance", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "http:\/\/www.ontarioriversalliance.ca\/category\/rivers-mining-logging-hydroelectric-waterpower\/west-credit-river-rivers-mining-logging-hydroelectric-waterpower\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "The Town of Erin is designing a new sewage treatment plant with projected effluent temperatures that would alter the thermal regime of its receiving waters, endangering some of the most productive and highly valued cold-water brook trout populations in the West Credit River. ", "status": "Design Phase", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2020-12-21 12:50:55" }, { "id": "4", "latitude": "43.503541", "longitude": "-80.161865", "spot_name": "Clair-Maltby Secondary Plan, City of Guelph", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "Protect our Moraine", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/www.protectourmoraine.ca\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "City of Guelph is considering expanding its settlement boundary to allow for development in the Paris Galt Moraine. This would effect drinking water for thousands of residents.", "status": "MCR process", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "0", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "1", "added": "2019-05-12 14:16:11" }, { "id": "20", "latitude": "44.45659506782884", "longitude": " -78.74478787982045", "spot_name": "Flato Developments in Cameron and Lindsay", "threat_level": "", "organization": "Long Beach Land Preservation", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/www.notoflato.com\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "Long Beach Land Preservation is opposing a luxury golf course and resort on natural and agricultural land near Cameron, Ontario. They are also monitoring a request for an MZO from the same developer on Prime Agricultural Land just outside the town of Lindsay.", "status": "Proposed", "icon_farm": "1", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2021-10-19 16:11:54" }, { "id": "23", "latitude": "43.20010745697724", "longitude": "-79.96770034201164", "spot_name": "Garner Marsh", "threat_level": "", "organization": "Save Our Streams Hamilton", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/SaveOurStreamsHamilton.org", "organization_news": "", "issue": "A locally significant wetland at risk of being paved over for a 1.3 million sq foot warehouse complex by owner AIMCo - Alberta Investment Management Corporation. The local Conservation Authority has denied AIMCo a permit to destroy the marsh but they have appealed the decision to the Ontario Land Tribunal. Environmental Defence has been granted Party Status and will attend the hearing ensuring the marsh now has its own legal representation.", "status": "Proposed", "icon_farm": "1", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2022-04-12 13:16:02" }, { "id": "6", "latitude": "43.858066", "longitude": "-79.772398", "spot_name": "GTA West highway", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "EDC", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/stop-the-413\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "The proposed 413 highway would pave over farms and forests and cost taxpayers billions. This redundant 50km toll highway was cancelled in 2017, but was included in the Conservative's election platform 2018. If this unnecessary highway goes through, the last remaining forest in Vaughan and thousands of acres of prime farmland would be under threat.", "status": "Provincial EA process", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "0", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "1", "icon_climate": "1", "added": "2019-05-12 14:21:48" }, { "id": "1", "latitude": "43.192596", "longitude": "-79.7687218", "spot_name": "Hamilton Whitebelt", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "Environment Hamilton", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/www.environmenthamilton.org\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "Hamilton is considering a massive urban boundary expansion. The city has put forward two scenarios for public consideration, both of which would gobble up the municipality's remaining whitebelt lands (1300 to 1600ha). Expanding the current urban boundaries is not necessary if the city focuses on urban intensification, including building up around the planned lower city east-west LRT. There is already enough land available without putting farmland, food and water at risk. ", "status": "Temporarily Protected", "icon_farm": "1", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "1", "icon_climate": "1", "added": "2019-05-12 05:43:09" }, { "id": "21", "latitude": "43.64474162967121", "longitude": "-79.8161830340977", "spot_name": "Huttonville Forest", "threat_level": "", "organization": "Save Huttonville Forest", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1596971297313181", "organization_news": "", "issue": "Local residents are working to prevent the planned destruction, by developers, of 2.6-plus hectares of forest including a recognized locally significant wetland pond on the bank of the Credit River. The concern is there was no disclosure (during planning processes) of a decade-old decision by City and Conservation Authority, and that this thriving 50\u201370 year forest is critical to wildlife corridors and watershed. ", "status": "Proposed", "icon_farm": "1", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2022-01-25 20:44:57" }, { "id": "14", "latitude": "45.212894", "longitude": "-79.092809", "spot_name": "Langmaids Island", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "Lake Of Bays LPAT Appeal", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/www.lakeofbays.on.ca\/en\/invest-and-build\/langmaid-island-lpat-appeal.aspx", "organization_news": "", "issue": "This is the last uninhabited island in the Lake of Bays. A development proposal would greatly impact this Key Biodiversity Area", "status": "Proposed", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "0", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2020-10-06 13:26:59" }, { "id": "18", "latitude": "43.838587", "longitude": "-79.060722", "spot_name": "Lower Duffins Creek Wetland", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "Environment Action Now (Ajax-Pickering)", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/eanap1.wixsite.com\/eanap\/about-us", "organization_news": "", "issue": "The Lower Duffins Creek Wetland in Pickering is a large Provincially Significant wetland complex. It is a forested swamp with intermittent drumlins and is a rare remnant of coastal Great Lakes wetlands, rarer still by being located within a city. The Ontario government issued an MZO to allow the complete destruction of the western portion of the wetland for the construction of a warehousing facility and a road to be built through the eastern portion. ", "status": "Protected", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2020-12-21 13:01:05" }, { "id": "13", "latitude": "43.683595", "longitude": "-80.443293", "spot_name": "Middlebrook Well", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "Save Our Water", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "http:\/\/www.saveourwater.ca\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "Nestle Waters Canada purchased the Middlebrook well for its water bottling operation when Centre Wellington, the local municipality, attempted to buy it for its drinking water needs. Save Our Water is a citizens group in the community fighting to preserve the Middlebrook well. ", "status": "Pending", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "0", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2020-10-06 13:23:28" }, { "id": "25", "latitude": "45.4603354160223", "longitude": "-75.46166787539913", "spot_name": "Nantes Woods", "threat_level": "", "organization": "Greater Avalon Community Association", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/www.gaca-acga.com\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "A small, but densely-wooded area, called the Nantes Wood is at-risk due to a housing development. \r\n\r\nThis is one of many sites in the Ottawa area under pressure from development and invasive species. To get involved with local conservation in the area check out Ecology Ottawa and CAFES Ottawa.", "status": "", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "0", "icon_wild": "0", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2022-05-09 17:35:54" }, { "id": "22", "latitude": "45.395039811327486", "longitude": "-75.70927953701738", "spot_name": "New Civic Hospital", "threat_level": "", "organization": "Reimagine Ottawa", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/reimagineottawa.ca\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "Despite having another recommended site available on brownfield at Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa council has moved to build a new Civic Hospital near Dow's Lake in some of Ottawa's best green space without adequate justification for the site change.", "status": "Underway", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "0", "icon_wild": "0", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2022-03-11 21:19:25" }, { "id": "2", "latitude": "44.2963", "longitude": "-79.4362", "spot_name": "North Gwillimbury Forest", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "http:\/\/www.savengforest.org\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "One of the ten largest forests in the Lake Simcoe watershed, the North Gwillimbury Forest is a priceless natural asset for the Town of Georgina. There is a proposal to develop a 1,073 unit subdivision on the Paradise Beach-Island Grove provincially significant wetland in the North Gwillimbury Forest. This would put species, clean air and water at risk.", "status": "Appealed", "icon_farm": "1", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "1", "icon_climate": "1", "added": "2019-05-12 14:06:25" }, { "id": "12", "latitude": "46.210130", "longitude": "-82.717906", "spot_name": "North Shore Township", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "ANSWER Community", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/answercommunity.ca\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "A proposed quarry development threatens the habitat of endangered Blandings Turtles in the Township of North Shore, Ontario", "status": "Proposed", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "0", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2020-10-06 13:20:05" }, { "id": "7", "latitude": "43.87344", "longitude": "-80.06202", "spot_name": "Olympia Pit Porterfieled Rd, Caledon.", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "Pitsense", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/www.pitsense.ca\/", "organization_news": "http:\/\/osrtf.ca\/osrtf\/", "issue": "Olympia Pit is accepting imported fill that may be contaminated and dumping it in an unauthorized area then burying it with topsoil. This could impact drinking water.", "status": "Regulations for managing contaminated soil lacking", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "0", "icon_air": "1", "icon_climate": "1", "added": "2019-05-12 14:24:21" }, { "id": "9", "latitude": "43.922054", "longitude": "-79.137365", "spot_name": "Pickering Airport", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "Land Over Landings", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/landoverlandings.com\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "9,000 acres of the province's most productive farmland is under threat from an proposed new airport. There is no evidence to show that a new airport is needed.", "status": "Federal decision", "icon_farm": "1", "icon_water": "0", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "1", "added": "2019-05-27 20:01:38" }, { "id": "10", "latitude": "44.422574", "longitude": "-79.398861", "spot_name": "Rescue Lake Simcoe", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "Rescue Lake Simcoe", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/rescuelakesimcoe.org\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "The Lake Simcoe Protection Plan is the best watershed based legislation in all of Canada, aiming to protect and restore the ecological health of the lake and its entire watershed. Under review by the Province in the fall of 2020, we need to make sure it is strengthened, not weakened.", "status": "Under Review", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2020-08-14 13:39:48" }, { "id": "11", "latitude": "46.852708", "longitude": "-80.638046", "spot_name": "Save Wolf Lake", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "The Wolf Lake Coalition", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/www.savewolflake.org\/take-action\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "Old growth red pine forest surrounding Wolf Lake is under threat from mining exploration. Local groups are calling for Wolf Lake to become part of the Chiniguchi Waterway Provincial Park so it will be permanently protected.", "status": "Pending", "icon_farm": "1", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "0", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2020-10-06 13:15:31" }, { "id": "19", "latitude": "44.3937240266471", "longitude": "-80.54551044118831", "spot_name": "Talisman Resort", "threat_level": "", "organization": "Protect Talisman", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/www.protecttalisman.ca\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "Protect Talisman is working to stop 133.8 acres of public land being sold by the Municipality of Grey Highlands to a developer in order to maximize profit. These lands are environmentally significant, home of the UNESCO-designated Niagara Escarpment, as well as the Bruce Trail and the Beaver River. It\u2019s time to stop the secret deals, and instead work with the community to create a truly visionary plan that will benefit all.", "status": "Proposed", "icon_farm": "0", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2021-10-19 14:25:06" }, { "id": "3", "latitude": "43.03451", "longitude": "-79.05370", "spot_name": "Thundering Waters Forest, City of Niagara Falls", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "Ontario Nature, PALS", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/STWF6\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "A 500 acre area forest, largely old growth, but also important transitional habitat which supports endangered species such as Barn Swallow, Snapping Turtle and Midland Painted turtle. Is habitat for Endangered Acadian Flycatcher, and Endangered bats, trees and fauna.", "status": "LPAT appeal", "icon_farm": "1", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "1", "icon_air": "1", "icon_climate": "1", "added": "2019-05-12 14:10:10" }, { "id": "15", "latitude": "43.37876", "longitude": "-80.59501", "spot_name": "Wilmot Township", "threat_level": "High", "organization": "Citizens for Safe Ground Water", "organization_logo": "", "organization_website": "https:\/\/www.safeh2o.ca\/", "organization_news": "", "issue": "Proposed aggregate extraction, asphalt\/concrete re-purposing, and washing on a sensitive recharge area for municipal wells on farmland attached to a provincially significant woodlot and wetland.", "status": "Proposed", "icon_farm": "1", "icon_water": "1", "icon_wild": "0", "icon_air": "0", "icon_climate": "0", "added": "2020-12-21 12:46:21" } ]; document.innerText = data;