Food & Water FirstMelrose Quarry Fight!
Our friends at Citizens Against Melrose Quarry need your help in stopping a quarry east of Belleville! There are plans to excavate a new quarry in Tyendinaga township, a project that would impact the local water supply and destroy agricultural land.
The Melrose Quarry battle is all too familiar to us: Ordinary citizens banding together to protect vital farmland and water resources from aggregate pits. It can be a daunting fight but we know that PEOPLE POWER works! On November 21st, we mark the 7th anniversary of our victory over the proposed Mega Quarry in Dufferin County.
So, please support Citizens Against Melrose Quarry. Donate: GoFundMe!
Open Letter to MNRF
North Dufferin Agricultural & Community Taskforce (NDACT) and Food & Water First (F&WF) along with 20 other organizations have endorsed an open letter to Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF). The letter written by Environmental Defence provides feedback re: improving Ontario’s resilience to flooding, and supports Ontario’s Conservation Authorities, as well as outlines Ontario’s need for wetlands and requests protection for our natural heritage.
Ontario’s 36 Conservation Authorities (CAs) were established in 1946 after decades of tree clearing created extensive flooding problems. In 1954, the CAs gained popular support after Hurricane Hazel showed the necessity for flood management on a watershed basis. Today each municipality funds and has representation at the local CA. As the letter states, “There is no replacement for the knowledge and expertise that conservation authorities hold, and they are the best suited agencies to protect Ontario communities from floods as they are the only agencies operating at the watershed scale on these issues.”
Click here to read the letter (.pdf)
