Local environmental groups oppose conservation authority amalgamation

NAPANEE — Three local environmental groups are expressing their disapproval of the Ontario government’s plan to amalgamate the province’s conservation authorities in larger regions. The Friends of the Salmon River, the Friends of the Napanee River and the Lennox & Addington Stewardship Council issued a media release on Dec. 4 opposing Bill 68, which was passed at the end of November and which proposes the consolidation of 36 conservation authorities into seven regional orga