FARE 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Halton Hills, Megan Lee, Aggregate Supply

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Course: FARE 1040
• Professor: fox

Document Summary

The case against the hidden quarry proposed near. We, the proponents, strongly advocate that the so-called hidden quarry proposed near. Although building a quarry plays a role in meeting modern day requirements of increasing population, housing, and infrastructure development, this activity can cause serious environmental degradation as well as social and economic conflicts. Our evidence will show that quarry operations will have more adverse effects than benefits, due to its extensive impact on the surrounding area. According to stehouwer et al. (2006), quarrying activities, which include blasting and the transportation of aggregates, exert tremendous pressure on the water resources on-site, along with the groundwater system. Consequently, both local communities and pre-existing ecosystems suffer from the impacts of these projects. As residents of the guelph/eramosa township have expressed a number of key concerns related to the new quarry, our brief will provide additional supporting evidence regarding the extent of these social, economic, and environmental impacts (concerned residence coalition, undated).