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Birth of a Protest

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Jul 9th, 2011
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Strangers become allies… NDACT meetings always run out of chairs
BY TIM SHUFF In the Hills June 16, 2011
This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.
Remarkably, Carl Cosack is not angry. Naturally, he’s upset about an American-based corporation’s audacious proposal to blast a hole 20 storeys deep and remove a billion tonnes of limestone from prime agricultural land near his own farm.

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