Unity Ride Photos - September 17, 2011

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All Nations Unity Peace Ride.

The lands were bought by Highland Companies, backed by a Boston multi-billion dollar hedge fund that plans a mega mine 200 ft below the water table, and in that process destroy thousands of acres of our best farmland.

We are appreciative of Ontario Government’s call for an Environmental Assessment but will need much more of a clear transparent consultation with First Nations and the farming community that has lived and farmed this rich soil since time memorial before these sacred lands are destroyed for ever.

“There are a great number of interested people from all across Turtle Island that share in the common value that these lands should be protected forever and preserved for future generations to come. With countries all around the world crying out and dying for the lifeblood called water, it would be a shame and travesty to destroy what the Creator has gifted us. We can not stand by while Mother Earth bubbles up her clear pure sparkling water that belongs to each and every one of us only to have them poison and destroy it forever. "We must protect the land and the water like the blood that flows through our veins. With great love, peace and understanding we will now all come forward in a good way to find a better solution,” said Grey Eagle from Wapiti Circle Alliance, a community based group that fights for consultation with First Nations all over the world.

 Together with Danny Beaton and other First Nation leaders we will ride to Bring Awareness to the proposal to build Canada’s largest open pit mine, near Shelburne, Ontario. The headwaters of SEVEN major rivers and subwatersheds, being: The Grand River, Pine, Nottawasaga, Saugeen, Noisy, Boyne, and the Mad River. Beneath these rivers lay the pure flowing aquifers that are the drinking sources to surrounding towns and cities for more than a million people and natural wildlife. Second to the issue of fresh water, supply is the quality of prime, produce-growing soil available to the farmers of the area. There has not been proper consultation, as mandated by law, with First Nations.

Photos by Joan and John Lever