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Farmers losing fight against urban sprawl
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by Federsavage | October 6, 2007 at 10:17 am
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BC Transportation minister Kevin Falcon's own "Gateway Project" has whittled away at quite a few acres of blueberry farmland and others from the ALR. A few months ago, farmers had to fight from being taken out of the ALR on a small island on the Fraser River. We cannot keep our guard down from such infractions.
It is not just housing development we have to worry about. Ontario has legislated its new GreenBelt Plan to try to prevent further housing developement to be built into farmland, forests and wetlands, etc.
How easy it is for our governments, with a quick stroke of a pen, to negate all that legislation if it stands in the way of their pet project.
The Gateway Project is a most farcical solution to growing density in the Metro Vancouver area. Many people are against it, like they were against the Kevin Falcon's "green transportaion plan" concerning Eagleridge Bluffs (R.I.P.) Our politicians won't listen. No wonder we do not trust our politicians, anymore. The natural environment and our farmers just do not get any respect!
From the deck of Foxhill Farm, Richard Rand can look out over Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley and see the green fields rolling off like a crumbled blanket toward Cape Blomidon.It's an inspiring, beautiful sight and one that's very much in demand these days -- from the Annapolis Valley to Ontario's Niagara Peninsula and British Columbia's Okanagan Valley.
Much of Canada's rich farm land is more valuable for housing developments these days than it is for supporting crops.
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Federsavage
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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at 15:27 on October 6th, 2007
re : Ontario has legislated its new GreenBelt Plan to try to prevent further
housing developement to be built into farmland, forests and wetlands,
etc.
How easy it is for our governments, with a quick stroke of a
pen, to negate all that legislation if it stands in the way of their
pet project.
Yes these Governments Talk Out of Both Sides of Their Mouth as this Highway 424 appears to be Illegal under the Plan ...
The Stop the 424 Association was founded
as a result of the proposed Brantford to Cambridge highway bypass.
We
are a local non-profit organization whose . ... http://www.stopthe424.com/
Then there's the Fake Farmer Ontario Government Leader Friends
As 3 Main Ont Leaders focus on Hamilton Farmers Left OutSide
CATCH News - Farmers' market being forced out
Local farmers have
received a nasty surprise for Thanksgiving.
They just found out that
the farmers’ market at Centre Mall is being booted out as of the end of
the year.
http://www.topix.net/forum/world/canada/T2KSJ3464AF5D088G
LOTS more Examples if Reporters Look for them...
eg.
York Regional Police Know about Oak Ridges Moraine ORM Environmental Assault
http://www.topix.net/forum/ca/stouffville-on/T3I9EKOTOS73VLQ6V
etc
at 16:29 on October 9th, 2007
Federsavage, more people need to be concerned about our eroding farmland. Thanks for bringing this up. New regulations favoring big slaughterhouses are going to further curtail farm production and make it more tempting to sell to developers -- then what do we eat?
at 18:49 on October 9th, 2007
I sometimes think we can get lulled into complacency when our governments pass these kinds of laws. Then we get the rug swept out from under us. We must never let our guard down, and that can get tiring. I am believing more and more that the only "sure" things are organizations like Nature Trust, and the Land Conservancy, who buy up private land to ensure unique places do not get chewed up by constant changing government, corporations and legislation. Perhaps farmers need to sell their land to a "Farm Trust" organization, to prevent a developer from razing it. Just a thought.