I am continually baffled as to why Non-Government
Organisations (NGO's) such as the Wildlands League and people such as Anna
Baggio, both based in that bastion of Environmental Purity called Toronto, are
allowed to hammer us who live in the north unchallenged. What is especially
galling is the hyperbole supported by little fact that is promoted by our own
media sources and calling this “news”.
Debate is essential for informed decisions to be made but
when the only view presented is by groups who have no interest in the area and
whose stated goals are no development how can unbiased decision making be done?
Take for example the statement that “they are changing the landscape and that’s
disrupting the landscape”. Well, Duh! Has anyone ever looked at any form of
human development and not seen change? But better yet look at the high
resolution images available on Google Maps or Google Earth of the area in
question:
And see for yourself the “surprising” changes that have
taken place to the landscape, one dominated by string bog and sparse tree
vegetation and still showing the effects of the last glaciation eons ago. I for
one am surprised there is as little evidence of human occupation as there is
considering that this is the location of chromite deposits of such magnitude
there are few others in the world of equal scale or importance.
To me what is shocking is people like this continue to try
and tell us who live in the North how to live our lives when they live in, and
promote the truly mind-numbing devastating changes to the landscape
urbanisation has wrought on Southern Ontario. This is certainly not helped when
even our political leaders say they “want to do it right” and so do nothing
because how can you prove they did anything wrong?
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I don't want to live in a bubble so if you have a different take or can suggest a different source of information go for it!