NOTABLE QUOTABLE OF THE DAY-I DRINK WATER NOT CASH!!

The July 11, 2011 Globe and Mail article titled Wall Street Legend Aims to Strike Pay Dirt in Ontario, written by Martin Mittelstaedt, was profiled on this blog July 12, 2011.  Click here for link to the article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/wall-street-legend-aims-to-strike-pay-dirt-in-ontario/article2093919/

Right now, there are 79 comments posted on the story and here is the link to the comments:  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/wall-street-legend-aims-to-strike-pay-dirt-in-ontario/article2093919/comments/

To save you some time, here are some notable quotables from the comments:

• "The Globe's story about Seth Klarman, Baupost, Highland and its plans to excavate the largest quarry in Canada contains some serious errors.
• This article reads like a poorly written marketing bulletin
• The Globe and Mail has become a shyster newspaper. Promoting some Wall Street money making scheme (rife with disgusting facts the paper conceals)
• Shame on the Globe.
• ...here is how it works: paid PR firms call in their favours with journalists to get their stories out.
• What happened to the globe and mail having educated journalists writing for them?
• Shame on the Globe and Mail for this corporate "perception management" article. Fake news at its best.

Had enough?  Well Minebuster hasn't.  Here are a few more:

• Martin; how much were you paid by Baupost for this fluff piece?
• Wow Globe and Mail!!! I am seriously impressed with your tunnel vision.
• Disgusting, pro-business coverage of a critical issue. I am finally cancelling my subscription.
• Well, we know who is shilling for Hill and Knowlton now, don't we?
• This article is a press release for Seth Klarman, Baupost and Highland Companies. The Globe and Mail should be ashamed
• Mittelstaedt's shockingly poor piece of advertorial ignores the chorus of rational objections to this proposal, including those from the Ontario's own Ministry of the Environment.
• I won't harp on what a stunning puff piece this was, and how disappointed I am in the Globe for publishing it.
•  I drink water not cash. (Minebusters personal favourite quote of the day and this blogger will be shamelessly stealing this quote for quite awhile)
• This paper is a disgrace for putting this garbage up.
• Perhaps next time you can write an article on Hitler's marketing acumen and forget to mention all the other stuff.
• The only good thing about this article is that it gives us the opportunity to spread the word about how bad this quarry is for everyone "

The following letter to the Globe and Mail editor appears today:

"This proposed “mega” quarry in Dufferin County in Southwestern Ontario will destroy much-needed agricultural land (Wall Street Legend Aims To Strike Pay Dirt In Ontario – Report on Business, July 12). Forever. It will be dug below the water line and will pump 600 million litres of water daily, then send it back into the ground for consumption by more than one million Ontarians, complete with whatever toxins have been added via the blasting. Blasting will take place 24/7; 4,000 trucks will enter and exit the quarry daily.

Over 100,000 people from all over the world have signed a petition, circulated by Avaaz, to halt this horrendous plan. Local residents, farmers, environmentalists are united in fighting what would surely destroy their peaceful community. The Suzuki Foundation, Council of Canadians and dozens more organizations are protesting the proposed quarry.

Billions of dollars in limestone sit under our land and the profits to be made from it will make some American investors very rich, despite destroying irreplaceable farmland. This is something to cry about, to get enraged about. It is not something to celebrate, unless greed trumps common sense.
Gail Prussky, Shelburne, Ont."