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OUR OBJECTIVE
To persuade Ottawa to preserve the Pickering Federal Lands, long earmarked as the site of a future airport, as a secure source of food and fresh water for Canada’s largest urban centre.Learn More About Us
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INDOOR FARMING AND NORTH PICKERING
Local politicians have for years extolled indoor farms as desirable elements of a future airport on the Federal Lands, no doubt banking on the idea that by incorporating such facilities into the project, they would silence objections to the destruction of prime farmland. The paper reveals how misguided such thinking is. “Indoor Farming and North […]
KPMG FINDS NO AIRPORT NEEDED
Back in 2016, Transport Canada tasked KPMG with analysing the airport system of southern Ontario to the year 2036. An up-to-date study was said to be needed to decide when airport capacity constraints would necessitate a Pickering airport. KPMG’s findings were submitted in sections, over 3 years. The full report was released without fanfare by Transport Canada on March 5, 2020. We broke it down.
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A selection of our most important resources
- Response to the KPMG Study
We break it down for you
- Where’s My House? Runway Approaches of Proposed Pickering Airport
A zoom-in map
- THEN/NOW/NEXT: 21st-Century Reasons for Cancelling Pickering Airport
12 really good ones
- Airports and Pollution: Environmental Consequences of an Airport on the Pickering Federal Lands
Title says it
- North Pickering Farms
The better future, described and illustrated
- How You Can Help
Lots of easy ways