Highland Companies advised they cut those thousands of trees down and demolished those 16 homes (with another5-6 to go) to maximize their farming operations.
Here are pictures of two of the houses they bulldozed and burned last year. 
See how they are missing out on those extra 4 acres of agricultural land, because they have done NOTHING with them, not even capped the wells?
But if you add up all the houses they burned and bulldozed, 16 homes X 2 acres each equals about 32 acres they COULD be farming.....
Seriously, I do NOT know how my head has not exploded!!!
ITs their property isnt it?
ReplyDeleteAND the trees they cut down, they said were to maximize their farming operations, yet the felled trees are still there.
ReplyDeleteCorrect. It IS their property. But the rest of us pay in increased taxes to make up for the loss of taxation on the housing they demolished. AND if they weren't going to do anything with it, why the hell say they were doing it for agricultural reasons? Because they think people are stupid and will forget. Quit the lies and just be upfront-we are coming to decimate your community, your tax base, your farmland and jobs, your wildlife and forests in order to dig a mine to make a profit for a Boston based hedgefund.
ReplyDeleteIsn;t that what business is about making a profit? If it wasnt wouldnt we be all out of work? and I think it is their farm land and forests. And if I have read correctly the Boston owned company pays a lot more taxes being a foreign owned company, so I believe the house removal is nominal in the overall tax base.
ReplyDeleteWe are all stewards of the land buddy. We must practice good farming according to the law to the greater good of the community not the pocket book of a single employer, or in this case a foreign based hedgefund that feeds off the misfortune of others.
ReplyDelete“We must practice good farming according to the law to the greater good “
ReplyDeleteGood farming practices ! Don’t get me going, that’s a joke!
Farmers have brutalized the environment for decades!
Herbicides
Fungicides
Pesticides..
I can not use a weed killer in my back yard, a 1/4 acre, but hell, the farmers dump it by the barrel over thousands of acres!!!! Guess where that ends up......?.
Fertilizers, any idea how much nitrates are in the groudwater, thanks mr. Farmer! Good practice... for what?
Spreading manure near and over surface and groundwater sources. Can you say Walkerton? Any idea what that is costing Ontario? ask any municipality with a water system.
Over pumping, any idea of the amount of water is taken from the ground and streams for irrigation??? Most of that water doesn’t go back in the ground....
Plowing over any natural regeneration of remaining woodlots that try and sprout out.!
Just this spring I stopped and pickup two used grease cartridges, the farmer kindly dropped them over his fence onto the trail. He just finished planting his corn and before that spraying his atrazine.... that is lovely stuff! Oh and I am 100% positive farmers would not spill any fuel when they fuel those gas hungry heavy equipment, no that never happens, no, never!
They also get thousands and thousands of tax dollars (my tax dollars, too) in tax breaks, crop insurance, tax free equipment!
Maybe farmers should be sharpening their business skills while they are working on “good farming practices”, so you can make a profit and not need millions in tax breaks or not have to sell your farms off to Hedgefunds Companys....
I think the farmers have been feeding off the misfortune of others (environment, water, tax payers.......) for a long time.....
Yes I know we need them, but don’t feed me that crap!
Please
"Crap" is exactly what you will be eating if Highlands and other industrial corporations get to do whatever they want with "their farmland". And since you are so down on farmers, what kind of farmer could be worse than these guys - they are breaking every rule out there!! Grow up, get informed and put your bad assed attitude where it can do some good.
ReplyDeleteI just wish minebuster's head would explode so that person would shut the f up!!
ReplyDeleteWhat are you...12? I use this site to stay updated on the real issues inbetween meetings and news articles and phone calls to various ministries. I have followed the situation closely for two years in an attempt to be part of the solution to a serious threat to our community. I also find this site is a great bit of comic relieve to those of us who have invested a great deal of time and work in the issue. Your comments are a childish waste of time...so you get your wish...I will not respond to you again.
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