Vale

[Guest]

I agree , just look at the oilpatch and all the rest of Canada and sask resources that we have lost control of , why in hell do we want more of that ?

[SASKFARMER3]

Big lentil am I not wrong the stuff close to white city is shit dirt. But kronau is good.
But it was for a solution mine.

[SASKFARMER3]

Big lentil am I not wrong the stuff close to white city is shit dirt. But kronau is good.
But it was for a solution mine.

[biglentil]

sure Sf3 20 percent is marginal farming dirt but thats besides the point. Vale is a nasty pice of shit of a company. Just a few years ago through a hostile takeover hijacked the worlds largest nickle mine in Ontario. A very rare mine the remnants of a giant meteor impact. Only to automate and fire 80 percent of the staff and export all the ore back to Brazil. Thats just one example of there nasty dealings. They need the boot Im sick of farmers rights trampled all over.

[farmaholic]

Shit dirt.... how ironic. All my life I drove past that old decrepit yard with all the old rundown cattle facilities and thought to myself, who would want this shit? Well, someone had the foresight and saw the value in its "potential". Not Ag, but development.... sometimes we shouldn't look at things only through a "farmer's" eyes. Silly me!

Disclaimer: location, location, location.

I live a mile and a half north of Wascana Creek, not far from where all the tributaries come together to form the beginning part of the deepest part of the creek. A quarter section would be a nice acreage with a house built on the edge overlooking the creek. A bit of a break from the mundane Plains on either side of it. It would be a nice way to maximize the value of that land and pass it onto the kids....but first I'd have to buy and develope (no utilities) it. But I cant farm it all and 30 acres would be cut off (stranded- have to cross creek to get to it ! And its surrounded by other land owners) and 50 acres is accessible and 80 acres is only good for habitat and pasture. See, I already have myself convinced its not a good idea.

[farmaholic]

.....silly me!!

[Klause]

Oh for the love of.


Vale announced a solution mine. Mines need land.

Whatever they don't need they'll rent out, or put it into hay and get someone to come bale it.

You know, like every other potash mine in Saskatchewan.


BHP bought a huge pile of dirt too... They never farmed an acre of it... it was all for the mine site, and for environmental regulations yards can't be closer than X miles... which is why they are forced to buy that much that far.

I think BHP was going to turn part of it into a nature reserve on one side of the mine...

[biglentil]

BS Klause the reason they buy it up is so the 50 years from now when they permanently destroyed the surface and contaminate the ground water there wont be environmental liability. **** Vale I hope their ready for a lifetime of class action lawsuits. Ive already started on the independant enviromental audits of the surrounding area. Water, air and soil.