This old growth Chinquapin Oak is over 11 feet in circumference at 5 feet off the ground.
This is one of the trees in a forest the Government and their corporate friends intend to clearcut and bulldoze (using weaponized expropriation aka eminent domain laws) to build a power line for data centers and electric vehicles.
They call it sustainable development.
I call it greenwashed profitable ecocide.
I will be doing everything I can to protect this tree and his elder brothers and sisters for future generations.
I have recently learned that the Canadian government and our local monopolized power company racket (“hydro one”) intends to use expropriation aka eminent domain laws to seize, clearcut and bulldoze large tracts of land (including some of the last pockets of Carolinian forest left in south western Ontario) to put in a massive high voltag…