Toronto Environmental Alliance: Dig Conservation, Not Holes

A new report from TEA today, linking the destruction of precious greenbelt space to our ravenous need for the raw stuff of infrastructure, and asking if there is a more sustainable way:

Dig Conservation, Not Holes

Over the next 25 years, the GTA will need to renew its urban infrastructure. At the same time the GTA will need to house millions more new Ontarians. This will mean building new urban infrastructure to accommodate a larger population while trying to minimize development that destroys our remaining natural spaces. Aggregate will be required to meet these pressing needs.

The question GTA residents – in particular elected officials – need to ask themselves is whether they want this aggregate demand to be met by destroying precious ecologically-sensitive land and farmland, much of it in the Greenbelt?

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