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Something big is happening at Wilmot’s industrial mega site. – Summary of an Article in the KW Record by Luisa D’Amato
Luisa told us that serious site preparation is happening at the 770 acres of farmland in Wilmot Township. The Region wants to turn this land into a massive industrial park. The public has been kept in the dark on this proposal without a single public meeting or a single publicly available study on the impact this site poses to the water supply, wildlife, traffic patterns and more. Isn’t the water issue a prime concern right now in our Region?
In the past few weeks, farm buildings have been demolished. There are security guards controlling road access to the property. The Region will be taking over a 1 kilometre stretch of Nafziger Road from the township between Bleams Rd and Highway 7/8. It would seem that the Region is moving full speed ahead. Some farmers have not sold their land.
Luisa thinks that the major impetus is to build a highway ramp connecting Nafziger with Highway 7/8 in case the proposed industrial site becomes a labour- intensive industrial workplace that generates a lot of traffic.
Regional Chairman Karen Redman said that the councillors and others are under a NDA. It’s completely unreasonable to stay silent now when most of the land has been acquired. There hasn’t been public discussion with decision-makers about the advisability of destroying prime farmland- a precious, infinite resource to create the industrial park.
A joint investigation from the Record and The Narwhal magazine last year indicated that the site was being prepared for Toyota which was denied by the company. The group Fight for farmland requested 20 times copies of studies estimating the site’s impact on traffic, wildlife, previous Indigenous settlements and the ability for local infrastructure to manage water and wastewater needs. They got not a single report or study Where does that leave us? Either the Region is withholding the information, or it hasn’t done the studies and is moving forward anyway.
The water supply crisis in our Region has resulted in an enormous amount of water being pumped to KW from underground wells. Hydrogeologist Hugh Simpson raised a concern about the possibility of a chemical spill at the industrial site because it is quite close to the Wilmot Centre well field. A spill could have a catastrophic effect on the region’s water supply system especially when the region is relying so heavily on the water from the nearby Wilmot Centre well fields. Is there a study being done about this possibility? There needs to be 1 done now!
As Luisa says we need and deserve answers. Instead all we are getting is silence. We are paying for this site, we live next to it, and we all will endure the consequences of the decisions officials are making in secret. Politicians need to remember that the public voted them in and they are supposed to be working for our benefit. We need to remember all of this when it comes to the election in October.
Luisa told us that serious site preparation is happening at the 770 acres of farmland in Wilmot Township. The Region wants to turn this land into a massive industrial park. The public has been kept in the dark on this proposal without a single public meeting or a single publicly available study on the impact this site poses to the water supply, wildlife, traffic patterns and more. Isn’t the water issue a prime concern right now in our Region?
In the past few weeks, farm buildings have been demolished. There are security guards controlling road access to the property. The Region will be taking over a 1 kilometre stretch of Nafziger Road from the township between Bleams Rd and Highway 7/8. It would seem that the Region is moving full speed ahead. Some farmers have not sold their land.
Luisa thinks that the major impetus is to build a highway ramp connecting Nafziger with Highway 7/8 in case the proposed industrial site becomes a labour- intensive industrial workplace that generates a lot of traffic.
Regional Chairman Karen Redman said that the councillors and others are under a NDA. It’s completely unreasonable to stay silent now when most of the land has been acquired. There hasn’t been public discussion with decision-makers about the advisability of destroying prime farmland- a precious, infinite resource to create the industrial park.
A joint investigation from the Record and The Narwhal magazine last year indicated that the site was being prepared for Toyota which was denied by the company. The group Fight for farmland requested 20 times copies of studies estimating the site’s impact on traffic, wildlife, previous Indigenous settlements and the ability for local infrastructure to manage water and wastewater needs. They got not a single report or study Where does that leave us? Either the Region is withholding the information, or it hasn’t done the studies and is moving forward anyway.
The water supply crisis in our Region has resulted in an enormous amount of water being pumped to KW from underground wells. Hydrogeologist Hugh Simpson raised a concern about the possibility of a chemical spill at the industrial site because it is quite close to the Wilmot Centre well field. A spill could have a catastrophic effect on the region’s water supply system especially when the region is relying so heavily on the water from the nearby Wilmot Centre well fields. Is there a study being done about this possibility? There needs to be 1 done now!
As Luisa says we need and deserve answers. Instead all we are getting is silence. We are paying for this site, we live next to it, and we all will endure the consequences of the decisions officials are making in secret. Politicians need to remember that the public voted them in and they are supposed to be working for our benefit. We need to remember all of this when it comes to the election in October.
