No Mega Quarry After All - The Agenda with Steve Paikin

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Published on Saturday, 24 November 2012 15:38

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It was a classic, modern-day problem.

We need aggregate to build roads for our increasingly urban society. And we want to dig for that aggregate as close to market as possible, to keep the price as low as possible. 

But one of the best areas to dig for that aggregate was in some of the most pristine, beautiful farming areas of the province: Melancthon Township near Collingwood, about a two hours' drive north of Toronto.  And the locals were vehemently opposed to the plan. They insisted that digging a 30-storey deep pit for aggregate -- with the hundreds of trucks per day that would come into the community -- was completely inconsistent with the other land use in the area.

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By Steve Paikin

Posted on TVO, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, The Inside  Agenda Blog, Nov. 22, 2012

http://theagenda.tvo.org/blog/agenda-blogs/no-mega-quarry-after-all

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