DEER LAKE, Canada -- A Corner Brook businessman hopes the stigma of an provincially-funded agriculture project in the 1980s will not deter the government from helping him set up a greenhouse in the Deer Lake area.
Clyde Simmons hopes to get approval to use about 100 acres of Crown land for a large greenhouse project to provide local grocery stores with vegetables that traditionally have a tough time being shipped here. He has been working on the project for the past three years, gaining investors and filling out the necessary forms to gain access to land between the Deer Lake Regional Airport and Junction Brook along the Trans-Canada Highway.
Simmons said he was surprised that the ill-fated Sprung greenhouse project is still in the minds of politicians in St. John’s when it comes to starting up similar projects.
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