The museum committee is meeting tonight, at the Dufferin County Museum @ 7:00 p.m., to yet again take a look at revising the County tree cutting bylaw. Please plan to attend the meeting tonight if you can.
The County of Dufferin has a perfectly good bylaw in place, but they refuse to enforce it, because if they did it would mean they would have to fine Highland Companies for cutting acres and acres and acres of trees on agricultural land without permits as required by the existing bylaw.
So the County has twisted and turned and squirmed and squirmed over the past year in trying to get a new bylaw to the table and passed. The new bylaw as proposed will mean the County can wash their hands of the entire matter and the CAO can go back to her $9,999.00 office hidden in the back of the building and not be bothered with any of this stuff.
The County of Dufferin has a perfectly good bylaw in place, but they refuse to enforce it, because if they did it would mean they would have to fine Highland Companies for cutting acres and acres and acres of trees on agricultural land without permits as required by the existing bylaw.
So the County has twisted and turned and squirmed and squirmed over the past year in trying to get a new bylaw to the table and passed. The new bylaw as proposed will mean the County can wash their hands of the entire matter and the CAO can go back to her $9,999.00 office hidden in the back of the building and not be bothered with any of this stuff.
Why are they so intent on implementing a new bylaw? Well of course Highlands pulled out the old "warning" about potential legal repercussions, blah, blah, blah and of course that is the only thing local politicians seem to hear. Not that their long time ratepayers, friends and neighbours are crying out for strong leadership and help with the devastation of their community, only the droning from Highlands.... blah, blah, legal, blah, blah, lawyer, blah, blah, blah, OMB, blah, blah.
I wonder how much this entire tree debacle, initiated due to Highlands "environmentally responsible agricultural plan" of clear cutting thousands and thousands of trees before anyone stepped in and stopped them, has cost taxpayers.
The rail issue (sale of Orangeville's rail line, dependant on the County selling their portion with Orangeville's weighted vote) has cost taxpayers $420,000.00 to date.
Yup Highlands are just good corporate citizens who want to be good neighbours and operate one of the best gosh darn potato farms in the world. Hard to farm with no prime agricultural land or water due to their plans for a 2,400 acre 200 foot open pit mine and hard to be a good neighbour when they have demolished the 20 neighbouring homes.....
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