A well licence issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) is required to drill, operate, deepen, alter or enter a well, or engage in any activity on or in a well. A complete Application for a Well Licence form must be submitted for review by the ministry, and the Minister may grant a licence.
A complete submission includes the following depending on the purpose for the licence:
New drill
- Application for a Well Licence
- Location plan
- Drilling program
- Application fee
Existing well
- Application for a Well Licence
- Well Location sketch
- Drilling program, if well is to be deepened or re-entered
- Application fee
Plugging
- Application for a Well Licence
- Well Location sketch
- Application fee
This Application for a Well Licence, under the policy "Approach to Licensing Private Gas Wells", is used to apply for a licence for an existing, operating private gas well in Ontario.
A complete submission includes:
- Well Evaluation Form
- Private Gas Well Licence Application Form
- Well Location Sketch: Existing Private Gas Well
Resident trappers are required to obtain the written permission of landowners upon whose land they wish to trap. The Landowner - Trapper Agreement form should be used by trappers to document written permission to trap on private land. This completed form may be requested by the ministry before the ministry will make any consideration of issuing a resident trapping licence to a person. Information submitted through this form may assist in assignment of harvest quotas for some species.
A Trapping Licence, issued under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, 1997 (FWCA) and its regulations, authorizes a person to hunt or trap furbearing mammals, black bear and other small game in the area designated on the licence and in accordance with the licence conditions (e.g., quotas) and regulations. This application form must be submitted to the local MNR Work Centre prior to a person being authorized to trap. This application also serves as a licence renewal form for authorization to trap in subsequent years.
This form is required for all escapes or unauthorized releases of cervids (members of the deer family, both native and non-native). The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act (FWCA) requires cervid owners (person who is keeping the cervids in captivity) to:
(1) promptly notify the Ministry of all escapes and unauthorized releases,
(2) address the escape/release in coordination with the Ministry, and
(3) complete and submit this form (FW4020)
If the owner cannot submit the form promptly, they should provide the required details to their Ministry work centre via telephone, or as directed by the work centre.
This form allows a hunter to apply for a waiver of hunter reporting penalty when serious illness or injury incapacitated the hunter in the 24 hours before the reporting deadline preventing them from completing their report, or when a hunter who was hunting with an outfitter submitted their report but the outfitter didn’t provide the completed report to the Ministry.
This form is to be completed by any licence or permit holder filing an amendment to a site plan under sections 13(3.2) or 37.2(5) of the Act and section 7.2 of Ontario Regulation 244/97 under the Aggregate Resource Act (i.e., “self-filing”).
The Objection Form is a requirement in section 0.5(9) of O. Reg. 244/97, under the Aggregate Resources Act, to serve as a record of outstanding objections with respect to an application for an Aggregate licence, after the applicant has attempted to address all comments during the consultation period.
The MNRF Volunteer Application form outlines the applicant's knowledge, skills, qualifications relative to the individuals volunteer interests. The application form must be completed at the beginning of each new volunteer assignment.
Game Bird Hunting Preserves (GBHP) are areas in which pen-raised game birds are released into habitat to support additional game bird hunting, bird-dog training and field trial opportunities in Ontario within a predefined area. This licence is required to own and operate a GBHP, including keeping and releasing the authorized species of game birds on the preserve. Applicants must submit a complete licence application with all required supplemental information.
Wildlife Custodian Authorization holders must submit this Annual Wildlife Rehabilitation Report for each calendar year by January 31st of the next year to the District Supervisor of their local ministry work centre.
The form provides a template for Examiner's to provide well information for annual and semi-annual examinations. These reports are legislated through the Provincial Operating Standards. Examinations take place under the Exameriner's Program, which is administered by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry's Petroleum Operations Section. The form covers all five (5) classes of examination in one form.
This new, streamlined, AODA compliant form will be available to MNRF staff across the province. This form is used by a variety of MNRF staff to initiate amendments to area-specific land use policy housed within the Crown Land Use Policy Atlas (CLUPA).
A well licence issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) for an unlicenced well to be licenced to be plugged under the Abandoned Works Program.
A complete submission includes the following:
- Application for a Licence under the Abandoned Works Program
