From NoMegaQuarry February 24 2012 Journalists, filmmakers and musicians get golden potato head for work in telling the mega-quarry story. Read more ...

Coming to town to ignite debate about proposed mega-quarryw/  Barrie Examiner February 23 2012 She’s a Canadian author and activist with a global reach. Yet Maude Barlow, national chairwoman of the Council of Canadians and board chairwoman of the Washington-based Food and Water Watch, also take...

Superstar investor Seth Klarman's controversial plan to develop a quarry in Ontario could pay off bigtimeBy Scott Cendrowski, writer-reporter February 15, 2012FORTUNE -- Drive an hour northwest from Toronto along Highway 10 and you come across some of the best farmland in Canada. Folks here call it t...

Solid Waste & Recycling January 9 2012 Eliminating large piles of concrete and asphalt removed from demolition sites and road reconstruction projects by reusing these materials is the immediate focus of a new Ontario organization. Read more ...

Fergus Elora News Express January 3 2012 Culinary activist and Elora resident Anita Stewart has been appointed to Order of Canada for outstanding achievements in Canadian food and cuisine. Read more http://www.centrewellington.com/news/article/103188 Anita on Foodstock ...

Letters to the Toronto Star January 7 2011 Re: Anatomy of a quarry fight, Dec. 31 Thanks for a well researched and well written article about the possibility of mass aggregate extraction in Melancthon. The thought of such a large mass of arable land being destroyed in the name of aggregate extraction...

Anatomy of a quarry fight  By Jayme Poisson Toronto Star December 29 2011 MELANCTHON, ONT. — Here in Melancthon, farmers love the land so much they etch pictures of their homesteads on family gravestones. When they die in this township — an idyllic stretch of rolling farmlands that juts out of Shelbu...

The need for aggregate puts the GTA between a rock and a hard place By RENATA D’ALIESIO Globe and Mail Dec. 10 2011 Deep beneath vast fields that grow a dozen varieties of potatoes lies a valuable gray rock tinged with light browns and blues. The rock is hard, durable and dense, part of the […...

By Chris Halliday Barrie Advance Nov 30, 2011 MELANCTHON – Dufferin-Caledon MP David Tilson is taking his federal government to task. Recently, the Conservative MP, who has already called on the federal government to subject The Highland Companies’ quarry plans in Melancthon to a federal enviro...

THE HIGH ROAD By Ray Ford ON Nature Magazine November 30 2011 It has been a decades-long cold war, with some very hot engagements. But the struggle between Ontario’s $1.3-billion sand, gravel and stone industry and the people seeking to safeguard the province’s landscape, could, at last, be reaching ...