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Is this what we want for Caledon’s future?
Wednesday March 17 2010
Dear Editor:
In last weeks Enterprise your headline posed the question: ‘More Blasting
in Caledon?’
The answer, I'm afraid, is a loud YES!
That is unless we stand up and speak out. If we do nothing we guarantee
the result posed by your question.
This proposed pit, and others that are sure to follow if the proponents
succeed, are a blight that has to stop somewhere. Why not here? And why
not now? The fact is that neighbouring properties become unsellable,
except for purposes of pit expansions. It is essentially expropriation by
encroachment, and ensures a loss of equity to private property owners and
a gain of equity to open pit mine developers - a massive transfer of wealth
with no compensation to those whose properties lose their value.
Is this what we want for Caledon's future?

Bob Shapton,
Caledon