OSSGA News

The Canadian Land Reclamation Association (CLRA) and the Ontario Mining Association (OMA) are pleased to announce the Seventh Annual Ontario Mine Reclamation Symposium and Field Trip.

Two corporations with aggregate interests in the Paris area have won awards from an organization of their peers for the responsible handling of their gravel pit operations. Lafarge Canada has received an award of excellence from the Ontario Stone, Sand and Gravel Association for the handling of its West Paris Pit on King Edward Street. Dufferin Aggregates Ltd., a division of Holcim Canada, has won a progressive rehabilitation award from the association for its Brown Pit in North Dumfries Township, just north of the Brant County line.

OSSGA member Bruce Peninsula Stone was recently featured on the cover of Business In Focus Magazine. The story profiles owner Eric Shouldice’s rise to the top from his modest beginnings piling flagstone.

Two groups of University of Guelph students in the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program received awards in the Student Design Competition at the recent Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel (OSSGA) AGM in Ottawa. Guelph students took home both first and second place in the prestigious OSSGA Student Design Competition.

OSSGA would like to thank all of this year’s attendees, exhibitors and presenters at the 2014 AGM in Ottawa. This year’s event was once again an AGM to remember, packed with interesting and informative presentations, an entertaining social program, and a keynote speaker who was ‘out of this world’. We’re sure you will join us in looking forward to the 2015 AGM in Toronto.

The Acton Quarry operated by Dufferin Aggregates has earned the prestigious Environmental Achievement and Community Relations Awards from the Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (OSSGA).

The West Paris gravel pit, operated by Lafarge Canada, was given the award of excellence from the Ontario Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (OSSGA) at the association’s annual general meeting last week in Ottawa.

Two local gravel pits operated by Lafarge Canada Inc. have earned the Progressive Rehabilitation Award from the Ontario Stone, Sand and Gravel Association. The award recognizes outstanding progress in the rehabilitation of extracted portions of an active pit or quarry site. The winners were The Giordano Pit and Uxbridge Regan Pit.

The Lakefield Pit & Lakefield Pit-West Floor operated by CBM Aggregates have earned the prestigious Progressive Rehabilitation Award from the Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (OSSGA). The Progressive Rehabilitation Award recognizes outstanding progress in the rehabilitation of extracted portions of active pit or quarry sites.

The Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (OSSGA) acknowledges yesterday’s comprehensive government response to the Report on the Review of the Aggregate Resources Act and stands ready to help implement key recommendations.