28,000 people at Foodstock. (I have heard estimates as high as 47,000 but that is not true).
So if 2,000 came on buses that leaves 26,000.
Lets say there were 4 people in a car,
That means there were 6,500 cars on that roadway yesterday,
Hm....I believe Highlands proposal, at peak market times, calls for up to 7,000 trucks on the road a day,
So MTO, County and OPP might want to rethink any comments they submitted on the Aggregate Proposal Act.
I am no genius and it doesn't take a genius to see that 6,500 cars crippled the flow of traffic, added stress to the infrastructure and would have significantly impacted any emergency response call required yesterday.
As it was, the only emergency was people were enjoying the day too much!!
And who knew kid LOVE mud, OMG.
The organizers worried themselves sick about the mud the day before.
Who knew it was going to be a featured entertainer of the day!!
Mud, get use to it if you dont want any more pits or quarries.......should be able to make some nice pottery from it though!.
ReplyDeletePotatoes and water....just a distant memory if you DO support THIS particular quarry.
ReplyDeleteI guess will should approve the other quarry expansions going on within the Niaraga Escarpment then? Cause shipping stone from northern ontario cannt be good for traffic and green house gases or overall costs....
ReplyDeletewe should / not will should....fat fingers sorry.!
ReplyDeleteOK, here we go again. Let me say it ONE more time for the kiddies in the back of the room who are too busy playing with their blocks to pay attention....those of us who are fighting THIS quarry are NOT anti-quarry. We accept the need for aggregates and the fact that quarries will continue to exist. The mega quarry in Melancthon is a Frankenstein of a quarry that, for reasons you really SHOULD already know about, MUST be stopped. Unless you and your grandchildren really have no need for clean drinking water.....
ReplyDeleteHighlands quarry drains to Georgian bay.... not a million people between them and the lake..Maybe get your facts straight and quit using fear mongering....and from what i have read the water in the area is already poluted from farming...imagine that! FARMING.....
ReplyDeleteMind buster have you worked inand around other below water quarries in Ontario??? cause no one has died from lack of water...
If your not against quarries, just this one, then tell us in your great wizdom, where should it go?
This isn't Minebuster, 4:25 p.m.. Believe it or not, there are THOUSANDS of us who agree with what's written in this blog. OK, now that that's out of the way, I don't think that any of us involved in fighting this quarry have to spend much time "fear mongering" The very idea of a 2300 acre hole, 200 feet deep, is enough to scare the hell out of all of us. An open pit this size shouldn't go ANYWHERE. 600 million litres of water pumped FOREVER. Built by a company in the quarry business for the first time. These FACTS scare the HELL out of us and that isn't fear mongering. It's reality and it terrifies us.
ReplyDeleteHey 4:25, its you who should get their facts straight. Dig out a topographic map and follow the direction of some of the rivers that will be affected then try and tell yourself some more that it all drains to Georgian Bay.
ReplyDelete4:25, are you looking for convenient answers or right answers? What motivates you to condone digging so deep and so wide? It's mostly the sheer volume of this proposal that everyone is opposed to, not to mention proceeding with a quarry project using deceptive means. The headwaters flow in all directions. It's in the 2009 Groundwater Overview by the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority at http://www.nvca.on.ca/ws_par/groups/public/@pub/@nvca/documents/web_content/wspar_016669.pdf
ReplyDeleteAlso, what will keep people fed and watered when the aquifers dry up? Are you relying on the fact that nutrient bereft bottled water will keep people hydrated? Water is not a resource to be marketed. In fact, it's not a resource at all. Water is essential for life - many forms of life, including fishies and birdies - and no organization should manipulate and profit from that.