GrumpyGus I am not allowed to reply to you publicly in the Free Speech board because Dennis the Cowardly Chief banned me a long time ago for calling his assessments delusional
(at the time, he was saying that production at the Miller Mine would be underway in 2017 and that everyone in Grenville Sur La Rouge supported the Miller project to the extent that LeGris was bussing in his "friends" from Hawkesbury. He didn't enjoy being told that this was absurd)
Anyways, there is indeed a big difference between allow 10-14 days of hunting per year on private land, and building an open pit mine.
To argue "well, if the government is willing to allow people to hunt deer on this land for 10-14 days a year, then it doesn't make sense why they would claim that the area is a deer habitat. The mine property should therefore be exempt from the white tail deer provision because they let people hunt on it during deer season so which one is it? Do they care about deer dying, or don't they?"
It is flawed reasoning that overlooks
1) the extremely regulated nature of deer hunting, which can only take place in season and with tags and limits and other restrictions
2) the fact that it is perfectly normal to have an area protected for a particular species, and still allow hunting of that species on that land.
Most wetlands are protected on the basis that it is a duck habitat. Those same wetlands often allow duck hunting at particular times of year.
Further, wildlife protections are not on a "lot by lot" basis because animals obviously travel. It's huge blobs of land that are designated as such, so suggesting that a single lot smack dab in the middle of it is somehow able to be "unprotected" is silly. That would defeat the entire purpose of the broader designation.
"We recognize that this is deer habitat, except for a few exempted lots. The deer best not go to those lots because they are not part of the protection area" - seriously?
I still can't believe that people are trying to argue that "well if you're allowed to hunt there during the short deer season, then why is there an issue building a pit mine?"
Same reason that you would be allowed to burn brush on your land with a permit, but wouldn't be able to open up an incinerator. "Well which one is it? Am I allowed to burn things on private land or ain't I?""" |
