Current Events and Information

The BNIA newsletter is published twice a year and covers items of interest to our members. Pressing new issues, interim updates and other current information will be posted here.

Bayfield-Nares Islanders' Association Annual General Meeting
The BNIA is holding it's AGM on Sunday July 25th, 2010 at 10:00 am.
The meeting will again be held at Springhaven Lodge, in Nares Inlet which has both raod and water access.

Bayfield-Nares Islanders' Association Constitution
Your director's, Ian Stewart in particular, have been working hard in bringing the BNIA Constitution into the 21st century. For your bedtime reading Click Here to see the completed document.

Bayfield-Nares Islanders' Association Annual Regatta - (Please Click Here)

Open Water Aquaculture
The BNIA is aware of the pressing need to urge the Ontario Ministry of the Environment to take a more responsible approach in regulating how fish farming is licensed in Georgian Bay waters.  
The following brief was submitted in late November by the GBA in conjunction with Ontario Nature to the OME.
In this year alone, the estimated loading of phosphorous into the Georgian Bay from 3 privately owned cage farm operations  is 35 tonnes, a potentially very harmful amount, especially when the cumulative effect is considered.
Read on to see the specific concerns and recommendations made by the GBA and Ontario Nature : (Click Here)

Intra-Basin Water Transfers
GBA (and others) recommend the passage of legislation to implement the Annex Agreement on Interbasin Transfers. In addition, they recommend that Ontario place a moratorium on all proposals that could constitute an interbasin transfer : (Click Here)

Development Appeal to OMB
In response to a proposed golf course/home/condominium development on Georgian Bay near port Severn the GBA has filed and appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board. GBA questions this proposal as the development boarders a Provincially Significant Wetland and they are concerned that the development will adversely affect this significant ecological feature in the Port Severn area: (Click Here)