Davie Bay Limestone Quarry

Synopsis

Lehigh Hanson wants to develop a new limestone quarry at Davie Bay on Texada Island. It would be the 5th on Texada, where 3 other quarries are operating below capacity and a 4th is closed. Production is stated to be 240,000 tonnes per year - 10,000 tonnes under the threshold for an environmental assessment. Opponents believe the site which should be designated park, and wish to protect a karst cave network. A Supreme Court challenge was dismissed in 2011, and is under appeal.

Category Mining

Type Gravel

Prov BC

Region Southern coast

Posted 18Aug10

Updated 28Jan12

Status Proposed

Contacts

LOCAL
COMMUNITY

Friends of Davie Bay, www.daviebay.com, Richard Fletcher, rickfletch(at)gmail.com

PROVINCIAL
REGIONAL

West Coast Environmental Law, Environmental Disputes Resolution Fund, Andrew Gage, andrew_gage(at)wcel.org, 250-412-9784, 800-330-9235

GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES

Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, CEAA Project Registry, 09-01-49595- Decision 09-01-49595, 26-Jul-201, "not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects"Transport Canada, Robert Sisler, 604-666,5370, 604-666-1123, sislerr(at)tc.gc.ca

PROPONENT

Lehigh Hanson Materials Ltd., Greg Carriere, Manager Industrial Minerals, gcarriere(at)lehighcement.com, 604-290-5595

More information

Location

In his decision of May 4, 2011, Superior Court Justice Peter Voith had declined to interfere with the decision of the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) to allow Lehigh Hanson Materials Ltd to go ahead with the Texada South Quarry without an environmental assessment. Friends of Davie Bay are appealing that decision. That case will be heard in 2012.