##  [Biodiversity Offsetting: Opportunities and Challenges](/resource/biodiversity-offsetting-opportunities-and-challenges) 

Organization

[Canadian Land Reclamation Association (CLRA)](/organization/canadian-land-reclamation-association-clra)

 

 

Project

[National CLRA Conference Papers](/project/national-clra-conference-papers)

 

Resource Type

[Report](/taxonomy/term/38)

 

 

Author(s)

Michael Wynia

Landon Black

 

 

Original Authors

Michael Wynia

Landon Black

 

 

Resource Date:

2016

 

Page Length

7

 

 

In many cases there are opportunities to plan and manage extraction using innovative  
and creative techniques such as biodiversity offsetting to mitigate potential  
environmental impacts. Biodiversity offsetting has become a popular topic in the  
planning and conservation community and there are precedents that prove that this  
technique can work effectively to achieve results for both the aggregate industry and for  
environmental protection.  
Offsetting, or compensation, may occur under an environmental assessment process as  
well as through the municipal land use planning process.  
This presentation focuses initially on the opportunities and challenges in the context of  
the land use planning process in Ontario and then focuses on the practical opportunities  
and challenges as experienced in an aggregate extraction project in the Township of  
Clearview in the County of Simcoe.