Des citoyens en colère contre des coupes à blanc dans un secteur rural d’Ottawa

Par Charles-Antoine Gagnon, Le Droit, le 12 mars 2023

Des citoyens opposés au projet résidentiel Tewin au sud-est d’Ottawa et en colère contre des coupes à blanc qui ont eu lieu dans le secteur se sont rassemblés dimanche à Carlsbad Springs pour dénoncer la situation et maintenir la pression contre la Ville et le promoteur immobilier Taggart.

...«C’est horrible. Avec les milliers d’arbres qui ont été détruits, des espèces menacées et des dommages aux terres ont été faits. C’est inimaginable au 21e siècle dans une ville comme Ottawa, la capitale d’un pays moderne et démocratique qui est censé être très préoccupé par la crise climatique. 

...Daniel Buckles, du groupe People’s Official Plan, a mentionné en entrevue au Droit que le projet Tewin ne devrait jamais voir le jour.

Residents protest tree cutting near Tewin development in Ottawa's southeast end

By Jackie Perez, CTV News Ottawa, March 12, 2023

Ottawa residents are speaking out against plans to cut down a large swath of trees in the rural southeast end of the city near the Tewin lands.

...On Sunday, a rally was held to call for a stop to the clear-cutting around the Tewin development and demand the city strengthen its tree protection bylaw. It was hosted by Ecology Ottawa, Greenspace Alliance, Community Associations for Environmental Sustainability, Horizon Ottawa and residents living in Carlsbad Springs.

..."The tree protection bylaw came out in 2021, this is its first test," said William van Geest with Ecology Ottawa. “We need the city to step in, tighten the bylaw, clarify and prevent any more destruction on this scale."


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City bylaw should prevent 'tree massacres,' advocate says

By Kate Porter, CBC News Ottawa

A longtime advocate for Ottawa's greenspaces says the city's new tree protection bylaw appears to have failed one of its first big tests, now that Tewin partners have been allowed to resume cutting on a swath of land in the rural southeast end.

...Paul Johanis, chair of the Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital, has watched city policy-making for years and says the new tree protection bylaw was crafted in part to prevent a repeat of what he called past "tree massacres," including a few areas clear-cut in north Kanata over the past 15 years.

"We have a long history in Ottawa of these types of preemptive clearings of forest cover in that strip of land that's just around the entire urban boundary of the city," said Johanis.


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Tewin owners get city exemption to clear cut for farming

By Kate Porter, CBC News Ottawa, March 7, 2023

Tree cutting is expected to resume on a huge, partially clearcut parcel in rural southeast Ottawa, after city staff determined that the partners behind the future suburb of Tewin did not require a tree permit because they say they intend to farm the property.

The City of Ottawa planned to lift a stop-work order Tuesday on the cutting of trees at the large property north of Piperville Road owned by the Algonquins of Ontario (AOO), according to a memo sent to city council by Don Herweyer, general manager of planning, real estate and economic development.

...In recent days, Ecology Ottawa has begun a petition calling for the City of Ottawa to investigate the clearing of the lands and make the results public.


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Une veillée à la bougie pour la patinoire du canal Rideau

Un groupe environnemental d'Ottawa a organisé une veillée à la chandelle pour la patinoire du canal Rideau qui n'a pu accueillir les patineurs cette année. Les organisateurs y voient une conséquence de la crise climatique et s'inquiètent de voir cette situation exceptionnelle devenir la norme.

Écologie Ottawa et un collectif de professionnels spécialisés dans le deuil ont organisé une vigile au parc du ruisseau Patterson mardi soir. Une trentaine de personnes se sont réunies pour la cause.

Il y a toujours la possibilité qu’on puisse patiner sur le canal dans les prochaines années, mais on sait bien qu’il y a une menace, explique William Van Geest, coordonnateur des programmes chez Écologie Ottawa. La menace, bien sûr, ce sont les changements climatiques.

...La participation à la vigile est un premier pas vers la mobilisation ontre les changements climatiques, renchérit Gabriel De Sandro.


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Mourners say climate change killed the Rideau Canal skating season in 2023

By Shaun Vardon, CTV News Ottawa

Dozens of people gathered on Tuesday to mourn the loss of this year's Rideau Canal Skateway.

The event at Patterson Creek in the Glebe, dubbed a community vigil, was organized by Ecology Ottawa to highlight the impacts of climate change.

...Organizers say 2023 could just be a taste of winters to come if more is not done to combat the effects of climate change.


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If we can no longer skate on Ottawa’s Rideau Canal, we must change the climate conversation

By Trish Audette-Longo, National Observer

...Alice Irene Whittaker is the executive director of Ecology Ottawa, a local environmental organization. If the canal had opened, she would have been on it with her children, “getting BeaverTails and just being there in the sunshine, out in nature with fellow citizens.”

Whittaker said there was a striking emptiness of the canal this winter.

...Alongside Heart Land, a group that says it offers "wholistic health support for the impacts of climate change," and the community group Community Deathcare Ottawa, Ecology Ottawa is co-hosting a vigil for the skateway today at Patterson Creek, a waterway that stretches from the canal into a neighbourhood park.

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Tewin clearcutting needs to be explained, says committee chair

By Kate Porter, CBC News Ottawa, March 2, 2023

The chair of the City of Ottawa's environment and climate change committee wants staff to explain how hundreds of trees were cut down without a permit at the city's future suburb of Tewin and what could happen next under the tree protection bylaw.

Capital Coun. Shawn Menard said drone video taken by CBC News shows that the Tewin development partners — the Algonquins of Ontario and Taggart Group — were doing more than cleaning up from May's derecho, as they have stated.


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Large deforestation starting between Piperville road and Leitrim Road: Tewin project

By CJRO Carslbad Springs, February 18, 2023 (bilingual article)

A large section of trees between Piperville road and Leitrim road and Anderson road and Ramsayville road in Carlsbad Springs has been removed and transported by huge trucks. CJRO Radio has contacted Taggart and also Councillor George Darouze to request an update on the status of the Tewin project. The Carlsbad Springs Community Association received inquiries from residents and trying to understand what is happening as there has not been any update on what is next since the community presentation that occurred in January 2021, and on the up-coming community plan for Tewin.


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Vigil planned to mourn Rideau Canal Skateway

By Michael Woods, CTV News Ottawa, March 1, 2023

Community groups in Ottawa are planning a vigil to mourn the Rideau Canal Skateway, which did not open for the first time in its 53-year history this year.

"We will gather in community to honour loss, climate grief, and uncertainty surrounding the canal skateway, and explore collective resilience and positive action," organizers said in a news release.

...Heart Land, a group of healing practitioners, is hosting the vigil in partnership with Community Deathcare Ottawa, a collective of end-of-life care workers, and Ecology Ottawa, an environmental group.

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‘A part of winter is missing’: Ottawa grieves over lack of canal ice for skating

By Leyland Cecco in Toronto, The Guardian,

...Last week, the National Capital Commission (NCC), which is responsible for development, urban planning, and conservation in Canada’s capital region, made official what everyone knew to be true: the Rideau would remain closed for the season for the first time in more than half a century.

The closure has raised larger questions about the future of the world’s largest ice rink as the climate crisis increasingly foils outdoor winter activities.

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