What's going on in North Dufferin?
Residents and farmers in an area near Shelburne are concerned about the future of land east and west of 124, north of Shelburne. My brother, who lives not so far away from there, tells me that there is speculation that numbered companies might be buying up huge chunks of area land for gravel pits. This is a concern because the land drains into the headwaters of rivers like the Grand and Pine.
Some residents have formed the North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Taskforce Their mission is to preserve and protect the unique resources in the area, including the agricultural lands, character and lifestyle that have been at the heart of the community. It looks like they are trying to have the lands they are particularly concerned about designated as special agricultural lands in an upcoming official plan.
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Ah, an aptly named Cajun cat. Does he play an instrument? A lovely orange one. Er, cat. Not an orange instrument.
Good for them! There was a plan locally to turn some former farmland into a gravel mine here and citizens banded together to fight the proposal since it was on land where their drinking water is sourced. The fear is that the aquafir would be threatened. The citizens won. Hurray!
I hope your brother's community has as much success.
Meh, ironic...farming is just as damaging as gravel pits...grow food in the cities...let the land go back to the animals...
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I know I lobbed that one over the plate for you Candy.
However, for the rivers, gravel mining is very bad. I'll take the farming thanks.
Candy, you need a piece of land roughly 30 miles by 30 miles of prime agricultural land to feed the city of Toronto. I think you would need to pretty much bulldoze the entire city to find enough land to feed Toronto's current population. That would be ok if we could cement over Lake Ontario to provide a place for folks to live while the rest of the city grew food but that would take a LOT of gravel to make the concrete and would put us right back in that gravel pit vs nature problem again. Soylent Green would solve many of the world's problems I think ;)
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