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Protesters march against plans for quarry
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Protesters march against plans for quarry
A group of protesters spent the Easter weekend marching in protest of plans to develop a quarry in the Shelbourne, Ontario region. The proposed plan for the quarry would threaten the Ontario potato industry, despite assurances by the owner of the project that once quarried, the site would be "returned to an arable state."
April 25, 2011 By Winnipeg Free Press/Canadian Press
April 25, 2011 -A group of protesters spent the Easter weekend marching
in protest of plans to develop a quarry in the Shelbourne, Ontario
region. The proposed plan for the quarry would threaten the Ontario
potato industry, despite assurances by the owner of the project that
once quarried, the site would be "returned to an arable state." | READ MORE