Once you have this massive hole in the ground, you can fill it with two things-water or.....
Rubbish you say? Well think about it. At Highlands open house they stated when they are done mining, the only way to keep the water out of the hole would be for "someone" (and they were clear it wasn't going to be them) to operate the massive pumps forever to the end of time.
Who can afford that? Certainly not Melancthon Council. They can't even afford to have their planner attend Council meetings, but I digress.
By the time Lowndes is done digging his hole, Toronto will have filled the landfill just outside of London. The province, in their quest to always help Toronto the good since clearly it is the centre of the universe, is going to look around for somewhere close to Toronto to in order to dump garbage. Quite frankly I believe they have already looked at this proposal, just hasn't hit the light of day yet.
Rubbish you say? Well, what do they need to ship the garbage here?
And Lowndes is touting the rail line for the economic benefits it will bring....to him...and the other thing it will bring will be Toronto garbage.
So just think. Highlands bought the land for $8,000/acre, they will mine it for $18 million an acre and when they are done the province will pay an arm and a leg for the big dump, I mean the big hole.
If this mine proceeds, there will be very little argument to be made to stop a landfill-agricultural will be gone, the water quality will be questionable at best and there will be no people left.
Please stand up now and fight the mine-to stop the dump, to save our water, our environment and local food sources.
A possibility I suppose, but very, very remote at best. There are already abundant rules and regulations about siting and maintaining garbage dumps so that they do not significantly affect the groundwater. Those rules would not allow the creation of a dump below the water table, just as they would not allow garbage to just be dumped into Lake Ontario (which would be an even cheaper more convenient solution for Toronto, wouldn't it?). A more likely scenario, squeezing even more from the land for Lowndes and Co., would be the extraction and sale of the water that will be in his way as he digs the mine. After all, Highland will have a "permit to take water" from MOE anyway.
ReplyDeleteBulk water sales are prohibited in Canada so they won't be shipping water, unless they bottle it. They will have a permit to take water from the MOE and what they are proposing to do with all the excess water they have to pump while they mine is to reinject it back into the acquifer. Scary thought.
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