I endorse the comments made…

I endorse the comments made by Ontario Nature, Oxford Coalition for Social Justice, Environmental Defence and Gravel Watch.
The Golden Horseshoe is being decimated systematically by overreaching developers, aggregate interests and municipal councillors that are either unprepared to deal with developer aggression, unsupported by the biased LPAT process and or are corrupted by vested interest like we witness in Caledon Ontario. We have an impending recession, a global pandemic and a climate crisis that is being led by people more interested in filling their pockets than in the health and well being of Ontario for the next 25 years. In Belfountain Ontario, the West Credit River that has been a destination for fly fisherman for generations and holiday seekers in the GTA is being threatened by a development upstream that will dump effluent into a pristine cold water fishery in a UNESCO WORLD BIOSPHERE. There was no downstream consultation. Near the same location a permit was easily given to expand a gravel pit by 500 acres, and extract below the water table which will also impact the village of Belfountain's wells. The town of Caledon couldn't be bothered to do a social impact study or a cumulative impact study. The Water treatment Plant, the enormous aggregate pit, will create a dead zone in the river just like the one experienced in Orangeville over the last 12 years. Ontario is turning into a province that is clearly fascist in regime if local people, caretakers of their neighbourhoods, are to be ignored by those more interested in profits. I am appalled at the climate crime spree that we are now experiencing. Ontario is losing its natural features and beautiful landscapes while its citizens are having to cope with a GLOBAL PANDEMIC that is threatening our health. Sprawl is not the answer. Green sustainable growth, smart planning, where there is already infrastructure is what we need. Better transit in our cities. NO more highways, no more sprawl on the Greenbelt. We have had enough.