The following is a list of…

The following is a list of Environmental concerns in the Greenbelt’s West Credit River in Caledon:

1. The Greenbelt is a treasured Ontario asset. It supplies recreation, headwaters and farmland. Please reduce, and further limit the amount of growth within it. Do not open up the Greenbelt to developers. Successive generations will need this 1st class farmland to grow their food in the future. By protecting the Greenbelt you create future food security.
2. It is now said that we live in a “Democracy of Developers”. Leaving residents and your constituents feeling powerless to protect biodiversity, habitat and control Climate Change.
3. The days of Urban Sprawl Growth are in the past. We now need to built or grow within already set boundaries. Due to climate change and the dysfunction of sprawl we can no longer build suburbs and mega highways.
4. Developers are speculators, with speculation comes risk. Therefore, with their investment they take the chance that the lands may not be able to be excessively developed. Citizens vote you into power not developers.
5. The Town of Erin, in Wellington County, excessive growth will cost the Provincial and Federal governments a lot of tax payer funds for Waste water and sewerage infrastructure. Do not spend our tax dollars on this ill conceived Places to Grow project.
6. To learn about our concerns regarding The Town of Erin and Protection of the West Credit River please watch the following short video:

https://vimeo.com/430124511

7. Reduce The Town of Erin’s (Wellington County) excessive development with effluent release and all urban drainage into the West Credit River in Caledon. An EA was done for the effluent, there are many problems with the MOECP results including zero study of urban road and roof run-off that will drain into this pristine river. There was no downstream consultation with Caledon residents who are the direct receivers of effluent and pay all environmental costs. This treasured and popular Peel Region river will not survive.