It requires approval from the Agricultural Land Commission. A person wanting to do such a thing must source an alternate similar sized piece of land, convert it to agricultural use to the extent it fully replaces the original land. So buying 5000 hectares up in the isolated mountains with no growing range and no grazing won’t cut it.
For gadget purposes? Sure thing.And BC real estate is a model to emulate?
And they could work the land at night without lighting because everything will have that healthy glow.
The provincial government can do that with the stroke of a pen, with or without the municipality's consent. I imagine the federal government has at least similar authority.
And it’s a pain in the ass for the landowner to sell, especially if it’s land that should never have been in the ALR to begin with. There’s land in the reserve that can only grow rocks unless you spend a fortune trying to get water to it, never mind getting the permits to do so legally.
Hmm. I think I know this land that you speak of, lol.
I'm not a rocket surgeon, but I suspect if the station could have been put further north than it already is for technical reasons, they would have been more than happy to put it in the 705 area code at/near that part of the world near Sudbury instead of near an agricultural, more-densely-populated part of the province. Also, my non-tech understanding is that the Kawartha Lakes facility is being built in some kind of positional proximity to the Clearview facility, so it may not be as simple as moving just one facility. Happy to be straightened out by folks who know about this OTH stuff than I do, though.
One man's "expensive military gadget" is another's "need this shit to detect other shit coming over the Arctic - in part to help protect Canada, and in part to keep the U.S. happy"
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