The Truth is out there, you just have to "dig" for it

Highlands Hype:

in 2007
“Trevor Downey of Downey Farms and John Lowndes both say the intent in Melancthon is merely to have a world-class potato operation.” (Orangeville Citizen, June 27, 2007 author Wes Keller)

in 2009
“In a phone interview Tuesday, Michael Daniher of the Toronto consulting firm of Special Situations Inc. — representing The Highlands Companies Inc. — said the group has never attempted to hide the fact that it will continue farming while looking beyond for other opportunities such as wind and bedrock resources.” (Orangeville Citizen, January 22, 2009 author Wes Keller)

Truth:
The very first time that Highland Companies admitted publically that they were searching for bedrock opportunities (meaning a 2,400 acre, 200 foot open pit mine) was five days after NDACT held their inaugural meeting on January 17, 2009 at the Honeywood arena at which there was a standing room only crowd. Notably, (King John) Lowndes refused to attend, but Michael, (Maid Marian) Daniher did. Prior to that time this company denied, denied, denied....

At the January 17 meeting in Honeywood, Daniher refused to admit he was a lawyer and stood up and made a grand statement about what a great entity Highlands was and all the good deeds they were doing, but made ABSOLUTELY no mention of aggregate "exploration". A member of the audience then stood up and said in fact she, that very week, had been in contact with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Environment and in fact (King John) Lowndes et al had been in contact with these various ministries regarding aggregate licensing and the province was realigning staffing because the application they were expecting was so massive.

Five days later a quote from (Maid Marian) Daniher, BFF of John Tory, appeared in the local paper stating everyone else was mistaken, just not Highlands. In fact the following quote appeared: “Mr. Daniher would not confirm that the group has already discussed aggregate extraction with the Province, but he did say it had discussed a number of issues with a number of ministries.” (Orangeville Citizen, January 22, 2009, author Wes Keller)