Formerly Proposed Melancthon “Mega Quarry”

Source: Friends of NDACT - Stop the Mega-Quarry

News History (2010 and Earlier)

Date yy-mm-dd	Posted By	Article Link	Comment
10-11-18	Orangeville Citizen	Editorial – Will this win have a Melancthon sequel?	Caledon Rockford/Rockfort quarry [21-Mar-2019 link not working] [Orangeville Citizen links archived?]
10-06-07	Canada’s National Farmers Union	Losing Our Grip:  How a Corporate Farmland Buy-up, Rising Farm Debt, and Agribusiness Financing of Inputs Threaten Family Farms and Food Sovereignty	(.pdf)
10-04-30	Bloomberg	Video - Innovators, Episode 3, Part 3 of 4: Designed by Nature	Brent Constantz, Calera Corporation www.calera.com
10-04-13	Treehugger	Old Quarries Going Back to Wild Habitat for Threatened Species	Jaymi Heimbuch UK activity
09-12-06	thestar.com	Limestone quarry threatens prime farm land
09-11-14	Torontoist	Forget Paving Paradise, Let’s Just Dig a Giant Hole in It	Hamutal Dotan
09-09-15	In the Hills	High Stakes in the High Country + Editorial	Tim Shuff
09-07-16	Orangeville Citizen	Opinion - NLP:  it’s really nothing new	Wes Keller
09-04-16	Perlofburlington	Video – Sara Harmer, Escarpment Blues
09-03-19	Orangeville.com	Orica rezoning will create an accident waiting to happen
09-03-12	Orangeville Citizen	Nitrate trucking “an accident waiting to happen”	Orica
09-03-01	Orangeville Citizen	Letter to Melancthon Township from Joan Lever	Against rezoning to “aggregate extractive”
09-01-22	Orangeville Citizen	N Dufferin residents see gravel replacing spuds
09-01-17	NDACT	Minutes – NDACT Inaugural Meeting
08-12-01	Treehugger	Another Reason to Laugh When They Say that Concrete is Green	Lloyd Alter Cement plants emit mercury
08-10-21	DurhamRegion.com	First layoffs in 27 years	Jennifer Stone St. Marys cement
07-06-07	Orangeville Citizen	Canadian Hydro Developers explain “amenities” divergence
07-05-17	Orangeville Citizen	Downey Potato Farms poised to corner market
07-03-29	The Coalition of Concerned Citizens	Are Ontario potatoes turning to stone?
2006/7	Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO)	Preserving natural areas, or Extracting aggregates wherever they lay?
06-12-12	Office of the Auditor General of Canada	Follow-up petition on the right to clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment.	David R. Boyd "Does the Government of Canada recognize that Canadians have a right to clean water, clean air, and a healthy environment, yes or no?" Eight paragraphs later the answer is ... sort of but not exactly.

“The proposed quarry is a short-term initiative that will destroy the fabric of the community and impact food access in Ontario for centuries if not forever. No more farming, no more community, no more food.”  Ravenna Nuaimy-Barker, Director of Sustain Ontario, the Alliance for Healthy Food and Farming

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