{"id":47786,"date":"2025-03-05T11:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/?p=47786"},"modified":"2025-03-06T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:44:04","slug":"new-habitat-protection-order-spells-trouble-for-sprawl-developers-and-highway-413","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/2025\/03\/05\/new-habitat-protection-order-spells-trouble-for-sprawl-developers-and-highway-413\/","title":{"rendered":"New Habitat Protection Order Spells Trouble for Sprawl Developers and Highway 413"},"content":{"rendered":"

After more than 15 years of delays, federal laws now prohibit activities that would destroy the habitat of the endangered Redside Dace. That\u2019s great news for Redside Dace, and very bad news for well-connected developers who\u2019ve been planning sprawl subdivisions, warehouses, and taxpayer-funded highways through Dace habitats in the upper reaches of the Humber River, Carruthers Creek, Duffins Creek and Rouge River.<\/p>\n

As required by the Endangered Species Act and the Redside Dace Recovery Strategy and Action Plan<\/a>, the Critical Habitat of the Redside Dace (Clinostomus elongatus) Order: SOR\/2025-4 prohibits anyone from doing anything that would destroy any of the habitat value of the mapped rivers, creeks and tributaries that Redside dace depends on. Since the Humber River’s upper reaches and tributaries are identified as critical habitat in the Recovery Strategy, it’s now clearly illegal to build the parts of Highway 413 that cross them.<\/p>\n

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