Who Can We Contact About This Situation?

Dundas, Hamilton, Ancaster: your public officials – both elected and those unelected who serve in bureaucratic positions – are letting you down.  Ongoing destruction of the protected natural environment is creating a slew of bad precedents. These precedents become a dividing wedge, as opportunistic developers and property owners fragment and lay waste to what remains of the protected areas of this valley. 

 

 

 

Changing this situation begins with the politicians.  Politicians and their bureaucrats prefer it when the public only has the information they want us to have – the information that can be controlled.  Social media scares the Powers That Be.  Sometimes, there’s no better way to make politicians nervous than to let them know the cat’s out of the bag.

The local politicians you can easily drop a line to about this deplorable environmental situation include:

 

Mayor Fred Eisenberger - Fred.eisenberger@hamilton.ca

Councillor Arlene VanderBeek - Arlene.VanderBeek@hamilton.ca

 

What Else Can Be Done?

 

(1)  Environmental destruction is enabled by secrecy.  The best thing we can do at this point is to spread the word.  Don’t let this remain secret.  Tell.  Use the pictures we’ve posted to show and tell. Share www.helpsavedundas.blogspot.ca with your family, friends and co-workers.   

 

(2)  We are currently working on a submission to send to the ongoing 10-year review of Ontario’s Greenbelt and Niagara Escarpment plans, to being more attention to the lack of enforcement of the environmental rules.  If any of you would like to include your names with this submission, just let us know. 

 

 

We must contain the environmental destruction that is selfish and lightning-quick.  A dead tree is very much dead.  The prized, precious and rare local Carolinian forest will soon be gone, at this rate, and much of the indigenous wildlife will be dead. 

 

These self-serving players that the Powers That Be seem to be protecting should not be deciding environmental policy –  piling one dead tree upon another and another.

 

The environment deserves much better than this.  Residents and taxpayers of Dundas Valley deserve much better than this.  Demand change.  If enough people do, it can bring results.