LSRCA welcomes Province’s release of Final Lake Simcoe Protection Plan

ONTARIO - June 3, 2009 - The Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) welcomes the Ontario government’s announcement yesterday of the final Lake Simcoe Protection Plan.

“The Province has worked diligently on this Plan and consulted extensively with the public and stakeholder groups throughout the watershed,” said the LSRCA’s board chair and East Gwillimbury councillor Virginia Hackson. “We applaud the effort and determination it took to bring Premier McGuinty’s 2007 announcement to fruition.”

“We will be reviewing the details of the Plan in the next few weeks,” said Gayle Wood, the conservation authority’s CAO. “We look forward to continuing to work towards the long-term health of our watershed with the Ministry of the Environment as well as our partners in other provincial ministries, federal departments, municipal governments and community stakeholder groups.”

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