{"id":97790,"date":"2022-05-31T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=97790"},"modified":"2022-06-28T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T20:27:18","slug":"overturn-decision-paving-the-way-for-rock-quarry-calhoun-residents-tell-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/overturn-decision-paving-the-way-for-rock-quarry-calhoun-residents-tell-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Overturn decision paving the way for rock quarry, Calhoun residents tell province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old two-storey house between Moncton and Sackville may soon become the site of a rock quarry.<\/p>\n<p>But area residents want the provincial government to walk back a rezoning decision allowing for the quarry project, which they believe could destroy the rural village of Calhoun.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story, CHMA spoke to Pierre Doucet, an area resident and outspoken opponent of the project.<\/p>\n<p>His father fought against quarry projects for more than 30 years before he died, and his elderly mother still lives in the small rural community.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-97790-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Quarry_TR.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Quarry_TR.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Quarry_TR.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em>Clarification: The company that proposed to rezone the property to allow for a quarry is Northern Construction and Suppliers. In November, VINCI Construction, a French multinational, announced that it had \u201csigned an agreement to acquire the construction companies of the family-run Northern Group of Companies.\u201d However, the property in Calhoun wasn't part of that deal, according to a representative of Eurovia, a subsidiary of VINCI. This article was updated to reflect that information from VINCI on June 28, 2022, at approximately 5:26 p.m. Atlantic.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/we-didnt-sell-to-a-corporation-knowingly-family-unaware-land-would-be-slated-for-rock-quarry\/\">We didn\u2019t sell to a corporation knowingly\u2019: Family unaware land would be slated for rock quarry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old two-storey house between Moncton and Sackville may soon become the site of a rock quarry. But area residents want the provincial government to walk back a rezoning decision allowing for the quarry project, which they believe could destroy the rural village of Calhoun. For more on this story, CHMA spoke to Pierre Doucet,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":97799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,222],"tags":[15008,4732,9012,12858,824,15009],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103116,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97790\/revisions\/103116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97790"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=97790"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=97790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}