#land development

The park is scheduled to close Oct 1st, after it'll probably be sold to land developers. It's 40 acres of land along the chassahowitzka river and is going to close due to the main deck and campground store being "a public safety risk, due to damage after last years hurricane," (not a direct quote, i'm paraphrasing). Y'all, the damage is so minimal even I could probably fix it. They're refusing to repair these structures so they can claim it's in disrepair and sell it off to land developers.

A field ecologist who worked on the Clarke Creek Wind Farm north west of Rockhampton had this to say:-

Having worked on the Clarke Creek wind farm, I can confirm that environmental degradation and loss of EVNT plants, ecosystems and animals was astronomical. Where were the green groups when 3000ha vegetation was laid flat, where were the green groups when 400ha of SEVT was bulldozed, where were the green groups when Koala, Greater Glider, Powerful Owl habitat was bulldozed. I contacted Green groups at the time...they didn't want to know about it...perhaps they were too busy hunting down a farmer for clearing his fence line.

The leaders of Ontario's opposition parties are jointly calling for the province's auditor general to investigate the Ford government's decision to open up almost 3,000 hectares of previously protected agricultural land for development.

Ontario's NDP, Liberal and Green parties penned a letter Thursday to Bonnie Lysyk asking for a value-for-money audit and an assessment of the financial and environmental impacts of removing land from the Greenbelt and repealing the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve Act — things residents, experts and advocates were in "broad opposition of" based on provincial public consultations.

"The removal of protections from these lands has instantly shifted wealth to property owners, who have likely benefited substantially from the rezoning of this land from undevelopable agricultural land to developable land," the letter reads.

"Collectively, we are very concerned with the impact that the removal of these Greenbelt lands will have on the future well-being of our province." [...]

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Someone wants to build ANOTHER HOUSE on this lot where animals live when there's TONS OF EMPTY ONES EVERYWHERE..

So I made a thing..