{"id":2449,"date":"2014-12-04T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2014-12-04T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:12:26","slug":"ontarios-greenbelt-is-under-threat-environmental-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2449","title":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s Greenbelt is under threat | &#8211; Environmental Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/blog\/ontario\u2019s-greenbelt-under-threat\">Ontario\u2019s Greenbelt is under threat | &#8211; Environmental Defence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">Ontario\u2019s Greenbelt protects farmland and natural areas like forests and wetlands from urban sprawl. It ensures that nature isn\u2019t a long drive away, and protects the sources of drinking water for millions of GTA residents. And it ensures that we in the Greater Golden Horseshoe have access to fresh, local food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">But, our world renowned Greenbelt is at risk. Today, the Ontario Greenbelt Alliance and Environmental Defence jointly released a new study,\u00a0<a class=\"ext\" style=\"color: #111111; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/greenbeltunderthreat.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ontario\u2019s Greenbelt at Risk<\/em><\/a>, which outlines four key\u00a0<a class=\"ext\" style=\"color: #111111; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/greenbeltunderthreat.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">threats<\/a>\u00a0to the Greenbelt:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Proposals for infrastructure, such as new mega-highways that would pave over prime farmland, contribute to poorer air quality, and generate more greenhouse gases;<\/li>\n<li>Sprawl developments in the Greenbelt that would destroy farmland, forest and wetlands and the animals that live there;<\/li>\n<li>An unnecessary airport in the Greenbelt that would eliminate 7,530 hectares of prime farmland and forests, isolate Rouge Park from the Oak Ridges Moraine, spark development along the boundary of the Rouge Park and contribute to climate change;<\/li>\n<li>Dumping contaminated soil, which puts water and food sources at risk<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">The good news is that actions can be taken to reduce each of these threats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario\u2019s Greenbelt is under threat | &#8211; Environmental Defence. Ontario\u2019s Greenbelt protects farmland and natural areas like forests and wetlands from urban sprawl. It ensures that nature isn\u2019t a long drive away, and protects the sources of drinking water for millions of GTA residents. And it ensures that we in the Greater Golden Horseshoe have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1546,271,1630,391,1378,1629,1631],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-development","tag-environment-2","tag-environmental-risk","tag-growth","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-greenbelt","tag-urban-sprawl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}