Food/Water/Agriculture
We do not need another Mirabel: Pickering reader
Publication Date: May 29, 2020
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Food/Water/Agriculture
(letter to the editor) Writer responds to the May 23 letter (see “Time to build…”), pointing out that the Pickering Lands should be used to grow food, not used for an unneeded airport.durhamregion.com
‘Make life better for Durham residents’: John Henry boasts about Durham in annual address
Publication Date: February 21, 2020
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Climate Change, Food/Water/Agriculture
Our Regional Chair continues to promote Pickering airport as the way to a better life, just days after presiding over council’s climate emergency declaration. He’s still pushing a “carbon-neutral airport” (something that doesn’t exist and can’t, while planes burn fossil fuel). He’s still pushing vertical agriculture although it isn’t competitive in this part of Ontario. He’s still pushing sustainable aviation, although no one knows what that could be. He’s still quoting job numbers for an airport that has never been approved and whose function, if ever approved, has not been determined. He says that “vertical and indoor farming are changing the agriculture sector” – which isn’t really true.durhamregion.com
An airport is the wrong idea for the eastern suburbs
Publication Date: October 17, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Climate Change, Environment, Food/Water/Agriculture
(letter to the editor) Re “Eastern suburbs” letter: Writer details why the eastern suburbs deserve something better than an airport. thestar.com
East of Toronto, a land dispute tests Trudeau’s commitment to sustainability
Publication Date: August 27, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Climate Change, Environment, Food/Water/Agriculture, Historical, RNUP
First in a series of investigative articles related to the Pickering airport "file."Canada’s National Observer
Why I support an aerotropolis
Publication Date: August 22, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Food/Water/Agriculture
Next to the plate is Ajax’s mayor, Shaun Collier. He’s all for stacked greenhouses too, along with “a vast range of companies across multiple industries" and imagines endless possibilities. He doesn’t mention climate change. durhamregion.com
Propelling Canada’s next economic engine
Publication Date: August 15, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Climate Change, Environment, Food/Water/Agriculture
(op-ed) Regional chair John Henry thinks that “a modern airport would also allow us to showcase one of our biggest economic drivers: agriculture.” He imagines a food hub fuelled by vertical farming. He clearly hasn’t done his homework. He also takes our climate change research centre idea and turns it on its head by making it part of an aerotropolis vision! durhamregion.com
Pickering airport’s heat island advantage
Publication Date: August 8, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Climate Change, Food/Water/Agriculture
(op-ed) Writer claims that the nearby national park would cool a Pickering airport, and only the crops on farmland surrounding the airport would be a problem, “since the type of crop and ground cover will have a large impact on local temperatures.” Seriously... The online comments below the op-ed are scathing.durhamregion.com
Letter writer’s airport story incomplete, says reader
Publication Date: July 25, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Food/Water/Agriculture, Historical
(letter to the editor) Re “Embrace” letter: Writer points out that progress can have very different meanings.durhamregion.com
Agriculture more beneficial than airport in Pickering
Publication Date: July 18, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Food/Water/Agriculture
(letter to the editor) Re “Embrace” letter: Paving over these valuable farmlands is unconscionable.durhamregion.com
Airport environmental threats outlined at Pickering meeting
Publication Date: June 5, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Climate Change, Environment, Food/Water/Agriculture
Good coverage of our heavily attended 2019 AGM: (reader sign-in required)DurhamRegion.com