Neighbours say their concerns about the proposed 1,500-acre site have not been addressed.
Jenna Tranter thought she had finally found rural tranquillity a decade ago when she bought a lush 25-acre farm where she could teach horseback riding, removed from the traffic and noise of a major city.
"I wanted my own farm and my own space that I could do my own thing … never planned on having the largest EV plant in North America out of my front window." "Nobody will tell us what these actual plans are and whether they impact my property," Tranter said."If they are going to widen this road, am I going to lose some of my land?"
"I am not against progress and electric vehicles are the thing that is going to be changing our lives,” said Martin, whose farm is expected to be the plant's largest direct neighbour."But it would be nice to not use the best ground dirt in southern Ontario." "We are going to hang tight and see what happens because we love it here and we have lots of family history here, and we are just hoping that Volkswagen will be good corporate neighbours,” she said, sitting on a picnic bench next to her husband, with a vast stretch of green grass behind them. Just 11 days before Volkswagen announced it had chosen St. Thomas, the province passed legislation redrawing the municipal boundary so that the plant's entire site would be located in St.
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