BY TIM SHUFF In the Hills June 16, 2011

This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.

Remarkably, Carl Cosack is not angry. Naturally, he’s upset about an American-based corporation’s audacious proposal to blast a hole 20 storeys deep and remove a billion tonnes of limestone from prime agricultural land near his own farm.