How much is Melancthon expected to "do" for the Province of Ontario, the County of Dufferin and of course Boston, China, where ever?
Lets see, we have had several gravel pits for years, supplying aggregate;
Then we got Strada, a 300 acre pit, which by the way the Mayor met with their officials a couple of weeks ago about their expansion-did anyone know that except me;
We have a municipal landfill site and manage OUR own garbage. Now the County wants OUR landfill;
We "got" 50 windturbines, which has now grown to 111 to supply energy to the Province (while we are generating an excess of electricity in the standard way and selling it to the US);
Oh yes, then there was the sludge that we received from Toronto for a couple of years-remember that stuff that the smell would NEVER go away and left a metallic taste in your mouth and was so unstable farmers were not allowed to plant root crops for a minimum period of time after spreading. Council, rightly so, enacted a bylaw in contravention of Provincial legislation. However it put a stop to that and the Province didn't haul Melancthon to court over it and thanks to Council for taking a stand, that was truly horrific stuff.
County politicians are trying to railroad us and run a train through the existing rail bed in Melancthon, which will be connected by a spur line through our backyards-they "get" a YMCA and $7 million, Melancthon gets, well you know screwed;
And the final insult a 2,400 acre 200 foot deep open pit limestone mine to supply (fill in the blank here) China, US, Brazil, Boston, Timbuktu with aggregate.
Who knew our little farming community with our specialty soil on the headwaters of the Grand and Nottawasaga Rivers would be so valuable to the world for everything EXCEPT our specialty soil, water and food?
Lets see, we have had several gravel pits for years, supplying aggregate;
Then we got Strada, a 300 acre pit, which by the way the Mayor met with their officials a couple of weeks ago about their expansion-did anyone know that except me;
We have a municipal landfill site and manage OUR own garbage. Now the County wants OUR landfill;
We "got" 50 windturbines, which has now grown to 111 to supply energy to the Province (while we are generating an excess of electricity in the standard way and selling it to the US);
Oh yes, then there was the sludge that we received from Toronto for a couple of years-remember that stuff that the smell would NEVER go away and left a metallic taste in your mouth and was so unstable farmers were not allowed to plant root crops for a minimum period of time after spreading. Council, rightly so, enacted a bylaw in contravention of Provincial legislation. However it put a stop to that and the Province didn't haul Melancthon to court over it and thanks to Council for taking a stand, that was truly horrific stuff.
County politicians are trying to railroad us and run a train through the existing rail bed in Melancthon, which will be connected by a spur line through our backyards-they "get" a YMCA and $7 million, Melancthon gets, well you know screwed;
And the final insult a 2,400 acre 200 foot deep open pit limestone mine to supply (fill in the blank here) China, US, Brazil, Boston, Timbuktu with aggregate.
Who knew our little farming community with our specialty soil on the headwaters of the Grand and Nottawasaga Rivers would be so valuable to the world for everything EXCEPT our specialty soil, water and food?
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