We aren't getting it yet are we?

By Pepper Parr

July 30th, 2024

BURLINGTON, ON

OPINION

We’re not getting it yet.

On July 18, 2024  Ford Motor Company  announced plans to assemble F-Series Super Duty pickups at its Oakville Assembly Complex in Ontario, Canada, starting in 2026, boosting production of one of the company’s most popular and profitable vehicles.

Ford is getting to the point where these trucks will be electrically powered vehicles.  Is that what will come off the production line?  Ford has yet to say what will power these trucks.

Ford 150 truck production line.

July 15^th and 16^th Burlington experienced rainfall: on the 15^th that amounted to 70 mm in a single day. There was more rain on the 16^th. 70mm amounts to a months worth of rain.

That our climate has changed apparently hasn’t sunk in yet

I wonder if there are any people who happen to work at the Ford Oakville plant who wonder about the link between the announcement to build the trucks and the rain that fell on the city.

The culvert shown in the upper left corner next to the excavator was jammed with tree limbs preventing the flow of water underneath the 407. That water backed up into the Cavendish Drive community seriously damage at least 15 homes.

There is a link.  What we are going to do is the challenge.

More on what can be done to cope with the climate change.

Salt with Pepper is the musings, reflections and opinions of the publisher of the Burlington Gazette, an online newspaper that was formed in 2010 and is a member of the National Newsmedia Council.