SaveOurFarmland

Keeping an eye on changes to the Agricultural Land Reserve

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

The man's name is Josef Tesar. Bigots don't get to remain anonymous.

[SaveOurFarmland @ALRwatch]

It seems Pitt Meadows Council are concerned about potential smells and lights from a piece of farmland. So they're opting to pave it over instead. https://t.co/HQvZOUYHTT #bcpoli #ALR #foodsecurity

[Richmond FarmWatch @FARMWATCHBC]

Interview featuring @Gillanders_L with John Daly on CKNW "Back on the Beat". Discussing the state of #megamansions on #ALR and #foodsecurity #RichmondBC

https://t.co/ZQq5Wk2Sxc

[SaveOurFarmland @ALRwatch]

Highway expansion into ALR land worries small farm business owner https://t.co/ZNtREh80tK #bcpoli #ALR #FoodSecurity

[SaveOurFarmland @ALRwatch]

In the UK, 1% of the population owns 50% of the land, driving up land prices to where they are not sustainable for farm production: https://t.co/CuKZqoO0gY #ALR #bcpoli #foodsecurity

[ClimateChange Steves @Harold_Steves]

With Land Bank farmland for young farmers, incubator farms & farm schools, the #ALR established by the #ecosocialist Barrett #BCNDP in 1973 saved farmland with world wide implications. Strange the @jjhorgan #BCNDPCaucus would consider destroying northern #FoodSecurity with #SiteC

[SaveOurFarmland @ALRwatch]

Supreme upholds #ALC decision against landowner wanting to subdivide for a golf course and housing development in the #shushwap #bcpoli #ALR

https://t.co/7lLrsACubh

[SaveOurFarmland @ALRwatch]

This is why we need to curtail #Monsterhomes They do not increase farm labour but rather eat up farmland #ALR

[Richmond FarmWatch @FARMWATCHBC]

Most "houses" in the top 10 are on prime #ALR agricultural land. Many have lost farm status meaning they are no longer farmed despite the claim that large homes are for farming families. #bcpoli

The most expensive homes in #RichmondBC https://t.co/BYbZhOAzCX

[SaveOurFarmland @ALRwatch]

The former sanatorium and current farmland making up Tranquille on the Lake are again being considered for a large residential development, and this time a winery could be included.https://t.co/e1VtwpmAWL #ALR #bcpoli

[SaveOurFarmland @ALRwatch]

Foodlands over parkland for the win! #ALR #bcpoli

https://t.co/HqWM1ROOVV

[SaveOurFarmland @ALRwatch]

We always wondered how he got chosen to head a Food Security Committtee #payback

[ClimateChange Steves @Harold_Steves]

In #RichmondBC 2014 election "Richberry Farms & BK Farms owned by Peter Dhillon contributed $5000 each to Richmond First" opposed to limiting #MegaMansion size in the #ALR. He became chair of #BCNDP #FoodSecurity. With majority no need to appoint opponents https://t.co/YjDguFPGcp

[SaveOurFarmland @ALRwatch]

Agri-tech, industrial ag, and expansion of the Port threaten the #ALR (on top of #SiteC!) https://t.co/CHlVLv3rxP

[ClimateChange Steves @Harold_Steves]

The #ALR is just as threatened By #MegaMansions in the BC Interior & Okanagan as #MetroVancouver. As we prevent them in one place they move to another. That's why we must have one rule for all of BC. A rule that also stops dams,#fracking pads & roads to them, from destroying ALR

[SaveOurFarmland @ALRwatch]

Developers have applied to exclude 40 acres of prime (Class 1-3) ALR land for housing. The local government approved the application so the ALC has to decide again, for the 3rd time!! Agassiz residents, write your Council!
https://t.co/ghF33BzxUd

[Richmond FarmWatch @FARMWATCHBC]

The previous government was also going to flood 10,000 acres for Site C while continuing the proliferation of mega estates. BC NDP eliminated mega mansions, let's hope they come to their senses and continue rebuilding a strong and defendable #ALR. #bcpoli

[Wilma Haig @Wil_Del]

Support your local farmers. Tell your MLA not one more exclusion from the ALR can be tolerated

[Richmond FarmWatch @FARMWATCHBC]

125 acres of prime farmland to be excluded for development. #ALR #farmland #bcpoli

Over 600 Pitt Meadows citizens sign petition to protest North Lougheed development https://t.co/oSHoPWdTBH

[Richmond FarmWatch @FARMWATCHBC]

Why is this new 8 bedrm mansion on #farmland for sale? Weren't large homes on #ALR for large farm families to live in? Or was the argument that the small farm lots weren't worth protecting? Both. #vanre #bcpoli #RichmondBC https://t.co/Oa0enUyuia

[steveston in Canada @stevestonnotri1]

"Mansions have been built & flipped, left unoccupied or, worse, been the scene of criminal activity, said Gillanders."

Underlying this, is Farmland Owners lobby group actively aligning themselves with some councillors & BC Liberal MPs, trying to get ALR mansion rules quashed.