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Huffington Post, The Blog
Authored by Sarah Harmer
For the past three months, my dedicated lawyer David Donnelly, Protecting Escarpment Rural Land (“PERL”), and I have been trying to obtain a Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) biologist’s written opinion on whether a quarry company’s mitigation plan would protect the breeding ponds and wetlands of the Federally Endangered Jefferson Salamanders that are on our family farm.
On March 27, 2012, I was compelled to appeal an absurd decision of the MNR to deny my earlier Freedom of Information (FOI) request for this opinion.
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