{"content":[{"text":"April 1, 2010","bbox":{"left":0.103529,"top":0.295106,"width":0.10508000000000002,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"Stephen Maude \n Senior Policy Advisor \n Ministry of the Environment \n Integrated Environmental Policy Division \n Land and Water Policy Branch \n 135 St. Clair Avenue West , Floor 6 \n Toronto, Ontario M4V 1P5","bbox":{"left":0.103529,"top":0.329955,"width":0.32841300000000007,"height":0.124757}},{"text":"Dear Mr. Maude,","bbox":{"left":0.103529,"top":0.469349,"width":0.13626500000000002,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"Re: EBR # 010-8989 - Feasibility Study for Water Quality Trading in the Lake Simcoe \n Watershed","bbox":{"left":0.103529,"top":0.504636,"width":0.725944,"height":0.038410000000000055}},{"text":"On behalf of Conservation Ontario (CO), thank you for the opportunity to comment on the draft \n EBR # 010-8989 - Feasibility Study for Water Quality Trading in the Lake Simcoe Watershed. \n Conservation Ontario represents the common interests of Ontario’s 36 Conservation Authorities \n (CAs). Conservation Authorities are local, watershed management agencies that deliver services \n and programs that protect and manage water and other natural resources in partnership with \n government, landowners and other organizations. As part of the Conservation Authorities’ \n mandate, they ensure that Ontario's rivers, lakes and streams are properly safeguarded, managed and \n restored. In addition to serving the public and Ontario landowners, Conservation Authorities also \n provide advice to all levels of government on the responsible management of water.","bbox":{"left":0.103529,"top":0.55647,"width":0.787628,"height":0.15960600000000003}},{"text":"Conservation Ontario commends the Ontario Government’s efforts at legislating a watershed plan \n and reiterate that Conservation Authorities are in full agreement that the best way to protect and \n restore the ecological health of the Lake Simcoe watershed is through the implementation of an \n integrated watershed management plan. Given that the implementation of watershed plans is not \n legislated and the science and plans are therefore only advisory to local decision-making, \n Conservation Ontario supports the concept of a provincially mandated watershed plan for the \n protection of Lake Simcoe and the ultimate approval of such a Plan by the province. There are \n many aspects to the Plan that, as they are further developed under the implementation of the","bbox":{"left":0.103529,"top":0.730712,"width":0.768609,"height":0.14218200000000003}},{"text":"P.O. Box 11, 120 Bayview Parkway Newmarket Ontario L3Y 4W3 \n Tel: (905) 895-0716 Fax: (905) 895-0751 Email: info@conservationontario.ca","bbox":{"left":0.214313,"top":0.91239,"width":0.566874,"height":0.03182499999999999}},{"text":"1","bbox":{"left":0.882156,"top":0.941015,"width":0.009785000000000044,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"www.conservationontario.ca","bbox":{"left":0.36549,"top":0.95996,"width":0.26439,"height":0.021645000000000025}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.396863,"top":0.090909,"width":0.201961,"height":0.189091}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.396863,"top":0.090909,"width":0.201961,"height":0.189091}]}