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Food Water First2012 was the year of the mega-quarry
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ON POLITICS with Rob Strang — Looking over the political issues of 2012, The withdrawal of the Highland Companies' application for a mega-quarry was without a doubt our most significant political event.
How wonderful that it was a positive outcome. It gives me hope that democracy will survive when citizens from all quarters rally to defy the misguided development plans of the government and refuse to allow our precious farmland or our water resources to be jeopardized.
Recall that it was the Liberal government’s State of the Aggregate Resources in Ontario Study (SAROS) report from the Ministry of Natural Resources in 2010 that concluded: “Mega-quarries and underground mining are the most feasible alternative sources of aggregate.”
Opinion column by Rob Strang, was published in the "Orangeville Banner", January 15, 2013