Mega Quarry Film

Do you care about the safety and integrity of Ontario's drinking water? We do and so should you. Check out this piece to get the facts on the Highland Companies' application for a mega quarry in the Hills of the Headwaters. The proposed quarry would be bigger than most cities and 1.5 times the depth of Niagara falls. The location is 1 hour outside Canada's largest city, at the source of Ontario's pristine watersheds. Please share this link widely and get people informed about this epic environmental disaster in the making. Spread the word and take action.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Save Our Water
• Michael Stadtlander
• Jamie Kennedy
• Doona Dooher
• Clean Water
• Election
• Jason van Bruggen
• Ontario
• Quarry
• Mega Quarry
• Canada

[bikerrunnerdude]

Where are you guys going to get your limestone from? If not this quarry then which quarry? Maybe you prefer having immigrants and your children pay more for building materials? What about the increased fossil fuel consumption required to transport rock from afar, because of your anti-development agenda? When you say no to a quarry you are denying the rights of others to achieve the standard of living you are currently enjoying. Resource hogs, that's what you are!

[AsymetricMedia]

@bikerrunnerdude I would prioritize clean water and food over aggregate - you can't eat rocks. If we can't get better at recycling aggregates, I would imagine that the long term carbon impact of mining aggregate in an area further away that is not Class 1 prime agricultural land and the headwaters of 5 major rivers is less that the carbon impact and actual cost of importing our food from overseas forever. This will only become more true as oil prices climb and oil supply dwindles.

[rosedale71]

I'm all for supporting the effort to stop the quarry, because it's going to sacrifice productive farmland. And I'm certainly in favour of protecting our precious water supply. But to be honest, I didn't get the connection here... the video didn't clearly explain how the quarry is going to pollute or otherwise threaten the water.

[AsymetricMedia]

@rosedale71 Good question. When you let 600,000,000.00 litres of water a day every day drain out of rivers and natural acquifers and become polluted with the toxic effects of massive industry and heated to the point where fish which rely on cold water to reproduce can no longer breed, water and life are threatened. This volume of water needs to be re-circulated in perpetuity (10's/100's/1000's of years) - what happens when the pumps break down or the company decides to leave? Who pays for that?

[imdjc4]

This would be another beginning of Canada's depleting natural resources to the cash grabbing, soul stealing opportunists south of the 49th. We've jokingly anticipated their upward eye rolling and hand rubbing antics for years and now we're witnessing potential IV sucking pipelines and soon land scarring mineral stripping. All this and for what in return....TMZ?  Has Canada given in and souled out too?

[decibel333]

@bikerrunnerdude I believe "GFY you wanker" sums up how most people feel about you. Oh, and maybe rethink your values.

[mountain4415]

@MtNemoMopar you are an idiot.

[kathryncolantonio]

Why in heaven's name was this land sold to the hedge fund company in the first place? NO, NO, NO is what I say.......and again I say NO!!!!!!!!

[mainemavin]

@thefarmmulmur Those people don't live where this will be happening, so they DON'T CARE !!!

My people have said, "It is a good day to die". I pray I see my day to die, soon. All the activism we all can muster will never save the world from greedy corporations.

[Noel81645]

Just as Nebraskans don't like our pipeline crossing their aquifers we should stop this quarry from being built. What has happened to the Canadian conscience ?

Ajmeri

[beforeadamIwas]

We keep multiplying at an exponential rate. Where do we live? What will we eat and drink?

We are blind. We only care about here and now.

We don't care about our kids or theirs.

We just care about ourselves and what we might not get.

We are selfish people, all of us no matter what we say.

Our hearts have no love, not true love.

We act like we care, but as long as it doesn't happen to me who really truly cares?

Someone will fix it, won't they? What will we say to future generations?

We are all

[MtNemoMopar]

Don't believe everything you hear. We have lived beside a quarry for over 40 years.Never a water problem, always great nieghbors. Thank you quarries for making our lives better, and safer.

[janmindy1]

We dont needd a quarry we need our farm lands go build up north wheretheres no one or nothing