Greenspace being sacrificed for money

So like good boys and girls we are to share in the joyous fact that another chunk of Niagara region is going under the shovel.

Thorold Mayor Ted Luciani is ecstatic Toronto people are coming and he says “developers are wasting no time with current projects” - translation , they’re slapping them up. Greed has replaced commonsense. The tax base is the creed of the day, politicians spout it steadily.

Wildlife, nature are not important, it’s money folks, money.

Pelham, once a unique special place, has been transformed by Mayor Dave Augustyn into a predictable concrete sterile place. Wainfleet Mayor April Jeffs, along with Couns. Ted Hessels and Terry Gilmore, recently gave a 41 -unit condo development the green light on property which was home to endangered Fowler toads, bald eagles, etc. Lowbanks, Fenwick, Port Robinson and Welland are all being bulldozed under.

Take note that in Niagara politicians’ puff pieces there is no mention of destroying wildlife habitats, green spaces, healthy living for those of us who have paid taxes for years. No, all these shortsighted politicians continually discuss is the “tax base.”

Toronto people choose their way of life to make fortunes in the city and now like the ants running to the land of plenty the grasshopper worked so hard for, they will overtake and devour what we once were.

Forget your children and grandchildren’s right to a healthy happy future, it is about the tax base. Faye Suthons Wainfleet