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Melancthon Quarry
An enormous open pit mine has been proposed in Melancthon township on Highway 124 just north of Shelburne. The Highland Companies (owned by a Boston hedge fund) has filed an application for a 2,300-acre aggregate mine – it would be the largest quarry in Ontario and the second largest in North America. This is the “rooftop of Ontario” and the Niagara Escarpment runs along its border. The Council of Canadians has been working with local groups to help stop this open pit mine from being created because of the extraordinary impacts it will have on the community, the watersheds, Ontario’s food supply and on the drinking water of more than one million people who live in this area.
On October 16, a host of celebrity musicians set the score as more than 80 of Canada’s top chefs cooked up a storm for tens of thousands of hungry people to save precious farmland from a proposed mega-quarry in Conover, Ontario. Find out more at http://canadianchefscongress.com. Thank you to the thousands of people who signed the petition and sent their objections about the proposed mega-quarry to the Environmental Bill of Rights Registry by July 10, 2011.
MEDIA: RELEASE: The Council of Canadians welcomes environmental assessment of mega-quarry, September 2, 2011 AUDIO: Mark Calzavara and The Council of Canadians welcomes the announcement by Ontario’s Minister of the Environment John Wilkinson that a proposed mega-quarry in Melancthon Township will be subject to an Environmental Assessment. Zoomer Radio, September 2, 2011 Local residents, farmers and First Nations representatives recently took part in a five-day march to oppose the quarry. The march began with a rally at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Friday, April 22 and finished on Tuesday, April 26 at a potato farm next to the proposed site on Highway 124.
UPDATE: Calzavara travels to Melancthon as crucial hearings begin WIN! 75-day extension to Melancthon quarry comment period LETTER: Sent to Ontario Minister of Natural Resources re Objection to Highland Companies Mega Quarry Application, Maude Barlow, April 26, 2011 MEDIA RELEASE: Marching for the land and the water: Farmers and First Nations on second day of a five day march against hedge fund mega-quarry, Council of Canadians, April 23, 2011 BLOG: Marching through the clouds on the “Rooftop of Ontario”, April 28, 2011Read more posts concerning the Melancthon quarry here. |
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Council of Canadians Guelph chapter members Norah and Richard Chaloner, along with Norman Wolfson of NDACT, joined with Avaaz to deliver a massive national petition opposing the proposed mega-quarry to Minister of Natural Resources Linda Jeffrey at her constituency office in Brampton, July 11, 2011.
Mark Calzavara (right) took part in 5-day march opposing the quarry project, April 2011.