The Ontario government’s plans to make sweeping changes to the province’s conservation authority system has some concerned about the impacts in Grey-Bruce.

On Friday, the province announced it would soon introduce legislation to create an Ontario Provincial Conservation Agency (OPCA) that will oversee a revamped system in which the province’s current makeup of 36 conservation authorities could be consolidated into seven larger regional bodies.

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The province says the move will “help get shovels in the ground faster on homes and other local infrastructure projects, while strengthening the vital role conservation authorities play in managing watersheds and protecting communities from floods and natural hazards.”

But locally, officials are concerned about how the changes

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