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Aggregate extraction is essentially open pit mining. With it, comes all kinds of ecological injustices, including threatening already endangered species, fragile forests and wetlands; taking massive amounts of drinking water; releasing harmful pollution to our air from thousands of truck journeys per day; and leaving permanently scarred landscapes. All this is happening in and just beside Ontario’s protected Greenbelt, 1.8 millions acres of green space, farmland and natural areas in the Greater Golden Horseshoe region.

In response to the ever increasing numbers of proposedgravel pits and quarries which threaten the integrity of the Greenbelt, the Ontario Greenbelt Alliance has launched its Green Gravel Campaign with a new paper – Green Gravel: Priorities for Aggregate Reform – directed to the provincial government and all political parties. Despite the Greenbelt designation, quarries continue to be proposed and approved in environmentally significant areas including farmland, escarpment and moraine.

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