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De Havilland Field Project
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- De Havilland Field Project
- Author: Leah Mathieson
- Reference Number: 13
- Submitted: 2023-06-05 - 11:12 PM
- Project Phase: Planning
- Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments Invited on the Summary of the Initial Project Description
- A key policy in the Wheatland County Municipal Development Plan (pg 27) is "Preserving Our Heritage." In it you will find statements like -the agriculture is the backbone of the County, how land is a finite resource, it is a priority of the County to protect farmland and rural lifestyles and the protection of land for agriculture practices are a major priority. Why is the County allowing the land use bylaw to be amended taking away over 1500 acres of incredibly fertile cropland which produces some of the best yields in the county? Food security is a daily story in the news. Agriculture land in Alberta is dercreasing at a rapid rate yearly due to desertification, urban sprawl and commercial/industrail developments. Increased competion for farmland causes challenges in the Ag sector which leads to higher food prices. It also has leadsto the decline of family farms when a numbered company walks in and pays almost twice the price of the going rate raising prices ...
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- De Havilland Field Project
- Author: Hayden Grierson
- Reference Number: 9
- Submitted: 2023-05-10 - 1:35 PM
- Project Phase: Planning
- Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments Invited on the Summary of the Initial Project Description
- I have several concerns regarding this project. Mainly the environmental impact. This air field will effectively destroy an enormous area of agricultural land in the midst of a global food crisis. This land has been and currently is farmed by local farmers and provides hundreds of thousands of bushells of grain to not only feed canadians but contribute to the economy of this country. Our province relies on agriculture and farmers to keep things moving. Eliminating farmland in favor of airplanes that polute the air feels like a step in the wrong direction. In addition to the loss of farmland this land is a home to many animals including deer, moose, burrowing owls and thousands of geese and ducks who stop to feed during migration and create their homes here in the summer months. This airfield is a mistake. It will be used to pad the pockets of one of the richest families in canada while ruining a natural resource used by local farmers. Local interests ...
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