HomeMy WebLinkAboutX2023-020-018P.O. Box 159 TO THE CONCE&NED CITIZENS OF 649-2118
Claremont,Ont. ONTARIO 294-6361
FROM THE PEOPLE OR PLANES CONIIUII'TTEE
Help us stop the bulldozing of Ontario Green Belt
and prime agricultural land for an unnecessary airport.
In the following pages you will read of some of the reasons.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR ACTION.
Let your Member of Parliament know that you care
about the decision to put a jet airport in the center of
our community. The most successful way of doing this is
to write letters. Do not allow yourself to be sentimental
for personal reasons. Governments have shown that they
care little for the individual. Instead, worry about
DEMOCRACY and the CANADIAN WAY OF LIFE.
Attached is a list of the individuals to whom you
should write and also a guide to some questions you might
ask.
We need volunteers. From canvassers to secretaries,
technicians to technical experts, concerned housewives to
environmentalists .... you can help.
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newsletters, postage, legal fees etc.
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To: People or Planes (P.O.P.)
Box 159,
Claremont, Ontario.
Name. - ,w----------&-----------
Address-------------------------
Telephone: ------------------------
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of P.O.P._
TO CONCERNED CANADIANS
IF WE HAVE A SECOND TORONTO AIRPORT AT PICKERING:
1. Tremendous amounts of noise, vibration, and air -pollution will spread
2. Wildlife will be annihilated; migratory birds fly over Pickering.
3. Three conservation areas will be destroyed; eight affected.
4. Only remaining; countryside within reasonable distance of Metro
will be denied to the people.
5. $26,000,000.00 new Toronto zoo will be jeopardized.
6. 48,000 acres of prime farmland will be sacrificed for airport
development.
7. Proposed city of Cedarwood will afford questionable quality
of living.
8. A remaining example of early Canadian settlement, century
old farms, and Centennial homes will be gone.
9. Miles of land with archeological value will be sacrificed.
10. The ?newt is likely to be a white elephant; airlines will not
duplicate facilities because of costs; inconvenience will be
forced upon the public. Second airports in Washington and
Detroit have been a waste of the taxpayerts money.
11. Nuclear Power Plant is in line of flight of incoming planes.
Unimaginable consequences in case of accident.
12. Expressways will be necessary to access airport; further land
expropriation.
13. Gardiner Expressway extension -is mandit_ory. (and Spadina ---"- -
condemned?)
14. Most of the jobs developing will be highly technical in nature.
15. Few jobs will be provided before 1975•
16. By completion 197? technology may make obsolete present takeoff
requirements with the development of vertical ascent.
17. Residential land needed for development for the expansion of Metro
will not be available in North Pickering.. With the projected
increase of air -passengers, where can the resulting increase of
Metrots population locate?
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COMMENTS:
18. Why spoil the eastern environment of Toronto as well as the west?
19. A second inCiernational Toronto airport is NOT needed.
Aeronautically Malton is adequate for the biggest jets; traffic.
is congested only during two and a half hours of the day. It,
is the non -passengers and not the planes that are the problem.
With the four terminals built as originally planned, Malton
would be adequate at least until the end of this century.
20. Because Montreal has been given a multi --million jet airport by
the federal government is it rational or just plain assinine
to duplicate such facilities at Toronto?
21 Look at the cost of the proposed Pickering Airport. Federal
expropriation of 18,000 acres for the site; Provincial
acquisition of 25,000 acres; $70,000,000. - - First Phase
of airport facilities: $300,000,000. to $400,000,000.;
another $400,000,000. for area services. FOR EVERY ADULT
IN CANADA OVER $100.00 TAX MONEY
22. A billion dollars spent on railways, rapid transit, et cetera
would benefit everybody rather than the few who fly regularly.
23. The Governments have been unfair. Pickeringfs Reeve and the
local Members of Parliament were not informed until minutes
before the official announcement.
24. The Government is prematurely expropriating lands without
justification of proper planning. The Government must
prove to the people with solid facts - that they do not,
cannot yet have - ivh: we need a second airport, and why
Pickering was chosen out of 52 sites.
25. In the Throne speech it was stated that our Canadian environment
and quality of life must be protected. And this is a democracy?
"Progress often replaces that
which is priceless with that which is merely
costl y. tT
STOP THE RAPE OF YOUR COUNTRYSIDE - JOIN THE BATTLE TO SAVE IT.
Write to your Member of Parliament. 'Tojoe your objections.
sK SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
Please Use your own words, and ask whatever questions occur to you,
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or chose any of samples below.
EXAMPLES
1. Has due consideration been given to alternatives? What are they, and
are not the citizen-c entitled to a published summary of any such studies?
?., What are your objections to an Aqua -port on Lake Ontario, possibly
to be used in conjunction with Buffalo?
3. If Norman Cafik, N,P_, William Newman M.P.P. and Reeve Williams of
Pickering are -i, he represenivat-J ves of the people of Pickering, why were
they not told of the site until only hours before the official
announcement?
4. What statistics show that there is a need for another airport,
rather than more terminals in the present airport at Maltcn?
5. What is the attitude of those Ministers responsible for the
environment? By what studies do they support the further ravaging
of our countryside?
6. Since a large percentage (70%) of passenger flights from Malton
are 1 - 12 hour flights, is it not reasonable that high speed trains
could be used for these short distant trips?
7. Do I really own my home or am I ,just allowed to occupy it and
pay taxes on %it, until such time as the government may require my
property for another project?
Letters should go to the following:
The Rt. Hon. Pierre E. Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada
House of Commons, Ottawa
NO POSTAGE REQUIRED O.H.M.S.
Hon. Donald Jamieson,
Minister cf Transport
House of Commons, Ottawa
Your own Member of Parliament, as below, addressed to House of Commons,
Ottawa.
P idinz
Broadview
Davenport
Don Valley
Eglinton
Etobicoke
High Park
Lakeshort
Ontario
Oshawa Whitby
Parkdale
Rosedale
M.P.
-John Gilbert
Scarboro E.
-Charles Cacia
Scarboro W
-Robert Kaplan
Spadina
-Hon. Mitchell Sharp
St. Pauls
-Hon:.Alister Gillespie
Trinity
Walter Deakon
York Center
-Ken Robinson
York East
-Norman Cafik
York North
-Ed Broadbent
York South
-Dr. Stanley Haidasz
York Scarboro
-Hon. Donald S.MacDonald York Simcoe
The following require postage.
Hon. William Davis
Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario
-Dr.MartinOtConnell
-David Weatherhead
-Perry S . Ryan
-Ian Wahn
-Hon.Paul Hellyer
-James E. Walker
-Steven Otto
-Barnett Danson
-David Lewis
-Hon.Robt.Stanbury
-John Roberts
Hon. W. Darcy McKeough
Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario .
William Newman, Toronto Daily Star The Globe and Mail
Queen's Park l Yonge Street, 140 King Street W.,
Toronto, Ontario. Toronto, Ontario. Toronto, Ontaric,.
THE UNCOMPENSATED LOSERS
Wherever airports are built there is a host of oeo--)le who in
airport olannin4 argon are called "The Uncompensated Losers"
Who are these Uncompensated Losers? They are the oeople in the
community outside of air-3orts, and people who live along the
approach and takeoff oaths. The citizen within the airport
boundary, although he may not be adequately compensated. yet he
does receive cash for his land. He can relocate. He is to a
degree compensated- but the citizen on the outside of the fence
has to suffer a loss not softened by cashz
- his air is oolluted
- his sleep is._interruoted due to noise
- his television watching is impaired
- his taxes must oay for many services
required by the airport.
Well, maybe people can suffer kerosene fumes, lack of sleep,
additional realty taxes; and a decline in their community's
well-being. But, is it reasonable to exoect oeoole to accept
sudden deflation in the value of their homes? People will not
buy houses near an airport or on a flight path. Without buyers,
prices drop.
A 1971 study sponsored by The National Academy of Sciences and
The National Academy of Engineering commented: "Modern air
transportation has brought nearly unbearable noise to millions
of Americans who live or work near airoorts. The environmental
hazard must be suffered by some part of the community --often
that part that scarcely benefits either directly or indirectly
from air travel. Under oresent law. few of those impacted
individuals can seek recompense for or relier from this damage
to their lives from the airport or the airline. The cost is not
paid by either the traveller or the whole nation that benefits
from air service".
Because of its massive and unfavourable environmental impact,
an airport is no longer considered a blessing to a community.
t
It is difficult for the average home owner or farmer to under-
stand why he "The Uncompensated Loser" should provide a subsidy
to the few who can afford frequent air travel,
L.C. Almack, B.A. Sc., P.Eng., M.I.M.C.
PEOPLE OR PLANES
BOX 159, CLAREMONT,
942=5451
294=63 61