Comment 132

By sean (registered) | Posted None at

We already have stinky coke ovens and a meat processing plant. I guess that makes it perfectly logical that we strive to attract more of them! In fact, why don't we just accept everyone else's garbage while we're at it. They can just dump it on the streets! It is easy to accuse others of NIMBYism. Do you live within sniffing distance of the proposed site? I have smelled the Maple Leaf plant in Burlington. It is awful. I do not blame anyone for not wanting to live near it. There is no doubt that we SHOULD be attracting new employers to Hamilton. Whose place is it to decide which ones are "good" and which ones are "bad"? I suppose it's up to all of us collectively, however I would hope that we would look beyond immediate profit, and consider the long-term picture. Hamilton needs to be a place where people WANT to live. Perhaps it's time we went out of our way to attract fewer heavy industries in order to balance the ones that we already have?

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