The Brantford Expositor reports, “’This is not a done deal,’ organizer Mark Calzavara told the Concerned Citizens of Brant rally Saturday morning. ‘It’s never a done deal… that’s how they stop you from fighting.’ Calzavara, the Council of Canadians’ Ontario-Quebec regional organizer, was one of three speakers to cap a morning of demonstration and protest in Paris… Calzavara told the audience it was its responsibility to protect its water and the province would allow Dufferin to go ahead with its plans ‘if you let them’. He cited other examples, notably the proposed and defeated Site 41 municipal landfill site in Simcoe County, where the determination of opponents eventually led to stopping a controversial project.”
“(The protest) started and ended at the Syl Apps Community Centre and featured more than 100 people who noisily walked their way across the Grand River and up and down Grand River Avenue. Walkers of all ages, carrying signs, pots and pans chanted and banged their way through the short route to bring attention to their fight against Dufferin Aggregates and its plan to enact a decades-old gravel pit licence. Recently, the Ministry of the Environment rebuffed requests to review the licence or outright revoke it.”
For blogs related to the fight against the gravel pit, please see http://canadians.org/blog/?s=%22brant%22+%2B+%22paris%22. The Brantford Expositor article can be read at http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2012/10/13/pots-and-pans-protest-pit.
