Burnhamthorpe Road extension across Sixteen Mile Creek

Help us stop the extension of Burnhamthorpe across Sixteen Mile Creek, through the most intact portion of Oakville’s Natural Heritage System and through the wetlands of Glenorchy Conservation Area

Plans by Halton Region to extend Burnhamthorpe Road will cause great damage to our natural areas in north Oakville. Please let politicians know this is NOT acceptable.

Friends of Glenorchy and OakvilleGreen have been trying to convince politicians to kill this planned new Regional Road but we need your help.

Unless citizens speak up in numbers, politicians will rubber stamp this new four lane road that will destroy large areas of intact forest in Oakville’s Natural Heritage System, cause severe damage to the banks and bed of Sixteen Mile Creek as another crossing is built over it and decimate significant wetlands in the new Glenorchy Conservation Area near Bronte Road.

Please take a moment to send a letter like the one below to the listed politicians.



Dear Chair Carr, Mayors and Councillors:

I'm writing today to express my objection to the planned extension of Burnhamthorpe Road through Glenorchy Conservation Area and the surrounding ANSI (Area of Natural and Scientific Interest).

Another crossing of Sixteen Mile Creek, a 4-lane road through intact forest in Oakville’s NHS and the destruction of a significant portion of Glenorchy Conservation Area is simply unacceptable to the citizens of this community.

It is easy to say we are for protecting the environment and much harder to put it into practice. We expect you to put the environment first in this case and say NO to the Burnhamthorpe extension.

Sincerely,

(Your name and address here)

Send to the Regional Chair and Oakville Mayors and Councillors at these email addys:

gary.carr@halton.ca, mayor@oakville.ca , ward1@oakville.ca, ward1@oakville.ca, ward1@oakville.ca, ward2@oakville.ca, ward3@oakville.ca, ward4@oakville.ca, ward5@oakville.ca, ward6@oakville.ca