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Food Water FirstOntario Aggregate Reform Isn't Good News for Farm Lands
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- Published on Thursday, 14 March 2019 18:46
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March 13, 2019
The province is set to host a summit on aggregate reform on March 29th and aggregate industry stakeholders are invited.
The chair of the Northern Dufferin Agricultural and Community Taskforce, Karen Wallace says the problem she has with it is that it is going to be a private meeting.
Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, John Yakabuski says the Progressive Conservatives want to create conditions that will unleash the resource sector’s potential and to work with industry leaders to promote its sustainability.
Wallace says NDACT is concerned that this will cut red tape and allow the aggregate industry to dig up
mines on prime farming land, of which she says there is only 5 per cent left in Canada, with 0.25 per cent here in southern Ontario.
And she says once that’s done, there’s no going back.
Wallace says NDACT doesn’t oppose aggregates and recognizes their need as a raw material making up schools, hospitals and bridges.
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