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Food Water FirstWas Baupost’s Mega-Quarry Investment A Mega-Mistake?
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- Published on Sunday, 18 November 2012 21:43
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Perhaps it was bad foresight on the part of Highland, which showed signs of mismanagement since the beginning, if not from a project viability perspective, certainly with respect to PR. For at least three years, it hid its land use agenda, having its purchaser claim that the small farms it ate up would be used for the legacy industry, potato farming (a claim that turned out to be patently false). Numerous missteps in the wake of the proposal filing in the Spring of 2011...
Posted on the "Value Walk" website, by ValueWalk Staff, January 5, 2012
Peel Roads Using Recycled Aggregates
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- Published on Saturday, 03 November 2012 15:56
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Sustainable road strategy minimizes waste from road construction and maintenance BRAMPTON, ON. (Nov. 1, 2012) – The Region of Peel has been testing the use of recycled aggregates in road construction and road maintenance projects. Over the last five years, an average of 5,000 tonnes of asphalt millings was recycled each year. The Region benefits financially from the use of cold-in-place recycling, a process that costs up to 30 per cent less than using virgin asphalt.
Cold in-place recycling reuses the existing asphalt pavement. The technique grinds the upper road surface, mixes it with asphalt emulsion and lays it right back down without the use of heat. This process generally uses 100 per cent reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP). The Region of Peel has paved 110 lane kilometres using this process over the past 15 years. Food fight over quarry
Photo:Mark O’Neill QMI AgencyRancher Carl Cosack kneels in the middle of a field of potatoes in Melancthon Township north and west of the Town of Shelburne in this July, 2011 file photo. He holds a handful of the unique soil called Honeywood silt loam, a Class 1 soil that is prized in the farming community for its high quality. Many farmers in the community have joined in efforts to block a proposed ‘mega-quarry’.A billion tonnes of limestone lie beneath the rural countryside in Melancthon Township, 100 kilometres north of Toronto. A plan to remove it spotlights the challenges faced everywhere when the desire to protect valuable and ever-diminishing farmland clashes with efforts to push industrial development. The Highland Companies, backed by a $25-billion Boston hedge fund, hopes to blast a big hole in this fertile land to get at a deposit of 400-million-year-old sedimentary rock. The pit would cover more than 930 hectares and be almost 20 storeys deep — the second-largest quarry operation in North America, and the largest in Canadian history. From The Highland Companies - Listening to Soupstock attendees
Posted by Team Highland on 10/19 at 03:31 PM
Highland is evaluating how and when to commence the Environmental Assessment process. Once we do this, we will be able to confirm our next steps with the public. We understand that an EA is a collaborative process that involves the public and other interested stakeholders in the development of the terms of reference. We continue to listen to the comments about our proposed quarry, including those expressed at Soupstock this weekend. Posted on the website of The Highland Companies http://www.melancthonquarry.ca/index.php/site/latest/listening_to_soupstock_attendees Song Writing Workshop by James Gordon
 Digging Deep for Stories, Songs, Designs & DancesA free workshop series, the first phase in co-creating a community play about the proposed Melancthon Mega-Quarry. Come and have your say about the proposed mega-quarry, pro & con & undecided All interested individuals & groups are welcome to get involved. Produced by Everybody’s Theatre Company and the Rural Learning Association in collaboration with a local steering committee. The first in the series will be: Song Writing Workshop: Write a song about the proposed mega-quarry with professional songwriter James Gordon. No experience necessary. No need to pre-register. jamesgordon.ca
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