Ottawa: Quebec illegally clear-cuts protected Gatineau Park



Photo on left proves illegal Quebec provincial government clear-cut right beside National Capital Commission signage which affirms the environmental protection of the Gatineau Park as a Government of Canada conservation area.

I just received some pretty disturbing pictures from Jean-Paul Murray from the Gatineau Park Protection Committee, and a regular contributor to OutdoorOttawa, of actual clear-cutting that has begun inside the Gatineau Park’s 1997 administrative boundary, which was supported by the NCC board at a 2008 public meeting at the NAC.

The felled trees are to make way for an extension to Highway 5 to Wakefield, where there’s already a heap of anger about light industrial plants and septic treatment systems moving into the area.

From Jean-Paul’s email:

The trees felled are inside the park’s 1997 administrative boundary — the one pompously proclaimed by the NCC board at a 2008 public meeting at the NAC.

As mentioned earlier, hundred-year-old trees — white pine and hemlock — are among the casualties.

Both sides of Cross Loop Road have been clear cut over an area of 2 acres, maybe more (1 acre = 200' x 200').

Far as I know, the NCC never mentioned that a clear-cut would take place in the park. Nor have they come clean on how many acres of park the A5 will plough through in Giant Tiger country.

The public is being kept in the deepest fog.

Internet site reference: http://outdoorottawa.com/2011/04/gatineau-park-clear-cutting-to-make-way-for-highway-5


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