LETTER

North Aylmer clear-cut

 

As an environmental activist, I’ve witnessed some steaming piles in the media over the years, but the letter from Carl Martin (coordinator of marketing for Brigil) on Nov. 23rd deserves the gold-plated shovel award for creative story-telling. To claim that clear-cutting a wooded site and covering it in fill is an improvement over the natural environment strains credulity. (This, I believe, is the real reason for clearing the site: to provide a close and therefore cheap destination for the innumerable tons of material generated by its human warehousing projects.)

And to claim that it is the city’s fault that Brigil illegally clear-cut the site for not abetting Brigil in its quest to pave over everything as quickly as Brigil would like or that the cancerous growth of modern day development is an any way, shape or form sustainable and environmentally responsible shatters that credulity into a million pieces.

It is bad enough when they try to justify unbridled development for the sake of profits or “jobs,” but developers should stop the ridiculous exercise of pretending to give a bleep about the environment.

David Desjardins
Aylmer