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Francisco Huezo

Plains Midstream Canada Dept: In the end, the little guys with the green thumbs won, according to Vancouver Sun. "It was never 'I want to win against the big guy.' I was more concerned about the people here and their needs," Francisco Huezo said Wednesday while surveying the remaining green leaves sprouting from dirt plots and eDMONTON - It was a battle between a group of gardeners carrying spades and pitchforks and a giant pipeline company lining up their bulldozers. Plains Midstream Canada has backed off its plans to start construction of a pipeline in north Edmonton that would have destroyed a summer's worth of work by some community gardeners. The company says it will now wait until Oct. 1, giving the group enough time to harvest their bounty. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.