[All] Fw: Re-building economics sustainably and ethically.

Lanteigne water.lulu at yahoo.ca
Tue Mar 10 13:49:01 EDT 2020 

 Lots of food for thought here. Feel free to use. 
Louisette Lanteigne

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  Gwe’. Hello. 
My name is Louisette Lanteigne and I am an Acadian/Mi'kmaw from Caraquet NB from the Lanteigne and Gallien inside the Gespek district of the Mi'kmaq nation. My Grandmas of Pokemouche and Saint Simon area, prior to that we were in Gaspe and Port Royal before the deporation of Acadians. 
I was born in Belleville raised playing with my Mohawk buddies and currently living in Waterloo Ontario. I've been an water protector for 20 years with my work archived at Wilfrid Laurier for winning concessions to protect water supplies at the Ontario Municipal Board and other public processes. I'm a project killer by nature but it's not something I aim to do or wanted to be at all by intent or objective. I'm just a person who sees a risk and I voice the risks. Does an owl ever think itself to be a killer? I don't know. I kind of feel like it's not something I do, it feels more like something that generally happens around me. Bad projects tend to die around me. Lol.
For example, I cost Enbridge over 609 million speaking of a valve issue to the NEB board during Line 9.  Enbridge Inc reports $609-million loss as charges, Line 9 pipeline delay take toll

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 A pastor told me that I am costing them much more than that right now and I don't know what he's referring to but when I don't know something I'm at peace with that because if I am meant to know of something I'll know eh? Lol. 
I basically raise the risks I see with regulators and go to public processes on it. If the process fails to address the risks I see  I start digging into the fiscal history and track that until I see the root beneficiaries and I report them to the financial regulators and that seems to get results. I see projects die time and time again after doing this but I never get feedback if my work was any part of that and personally I don't mind because I'm just happy to see protections being implemented anyway. 

I am a mom, a housewife. I have no training to be an expert but I am called one by many and have been invited many times to speak on these issues. My daughter was at Carlton University and the lesson was on my advocacy and she called me all flustered saying she paid her tuition to go to class to hear them talk about her mom. It really ticked her off. She has her dad's last name so nobody had a clue and here she is in class just shaking her head. Lol. Anyway that's a piece of my life for ya. 

Below is a letter I just sent to the Prime Minister and Minister. There are ideas here that can really heal the lands, provide energy locally while protecting fish and this entire concept can serve as a steady revenue stream. Which is funny because one can take that term literally actually.  It's about using our water mains as the hydro power supply. 
Anyhow, lots of info here to help us get on a better more sustainable path, especially in terms of how we relate to water policy. Please feel free to use and share. 
Have a great day everybody. Welal'in Miigwetch
Louisette Lanteigne 700 Star Flower Ave.Waterloo OntN2V 2L2 

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 Dear Hon. Prime Ministers, Ministers and Mayors
With the Canadian Budget under review I wanted to raise these issues with you all with ideas on how we can advance to sustainable funding during this age of the current fiscal upheaval. 
In Halifax Rentricity installed a 31-kilowatt turbine has been generating power for 25 homes and earning $30,000 a year selling power to the grid.  It is powered by existing municipal water distribution systems so no risk to fish. It is compatible with 75% of current infrastructure. It pays for itself and lasts up to 40 years with little maintenance. A CBC article on it is here:

More than a pipe dream: How turning on your tap could create electricity | CBC News  
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More than a pipe dream: How turning on your tap could create electricity | CBC News
 
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we examine the concept of 'in-pipe hydro' and visualize just how many people worldwide live in cities.
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Locally in Waterloo Region we have massive potential in gleaning from this technology. Our region has a vast network of existing infrastructure compatible with this with interconnected cities involved.  This technology can create predictable funding that is desperately needed today and I ask the Provincial and Federal Government to look into this and to help fund it. According to the article the system recovers costs in approx. 17 years but that can vary depending on subsidies available and this infrastructure lasts for 40 years with little maintenance so it's a solid return. The key point is it keeps money for energy localized so it strengthens our localized tax base. This is a much need solution for municipalities across Canada. 

Currently CPPIB has well over 400 Billion to work with but terms to invest the money are set at minimum 10 year terms with minimum 10 million dollars. This is anti competitive against renewable infrastructure ventures favoring mega projects, oil and gas as well as the exploitation of third world nations to get more revenues for cheaper costs. 
Unlike Canadian charities CPPIB has no ethics guideline to govern the direction of investments so we saw the funding of migrant detention camps holding kids in the US, the funding of weapons, funding of cigarettes and things that foster illness and social discord. Inevitably we're investing in things that cost communities by way of significant environmental destruction, increased pollution and health care costs while we exploit the poor for our own pensions.  In essence we foster the problems that deplete the funding of our existing charities which is basically a double dip that works against Canadian taxpayers and global community.  
If the ethics of CPPIB line up with the ethical guidelines of Canada's Charities we will see more ethical investments. 
We are in need of not only reviewing what companies we invest in but who their suppliers are. Without knowledge of beneficiaries we often end up supporting child labour, polluting companies, major brands exploiting slavery and oppression. For example, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists just exposed how Uyghurs are being exploited to produce goods for the Nike, Apple, GE, Mercedes Benz etc. The report they referenced was from APTI right here. 
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If want to live in a sustainable, peaceful and just society, we need to invest in that and not in projects that foster social discord, colonialism or the exploitation of slavery. As a taxpayer this matters to me. 
Currently in Canada 87 wealthiest families collectively own $259 billion—just less than $3 billion each. While on the bottom end of the spectrum, 3.4 million people in Canada live below Canada’s official poverty line. This is not sustainable at all and it's now at the point the children rich are asking to be taxed.  Again this offers a new way, a new hope to secure measures of sustainable funding during this time of economic and societal transition. I support the need to do this. It is time for the taxes on the wealthy. I provide this article to support. 
Wealthy Millennials Call for Canada to Implement a Wealth Tax  
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Wealthy Millennials Call for Canada to Implement a Wealth Tax
 
For Immediate Release—Wealthy millennials are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to implement wealth and inheritance taxes in Canada.
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The last part I wish to relay is the need to protect the natural infrastructure supporting our lives. It has always been economically wise to protect and support the natural infrastructure providing water supplies because it is FREE. In Waterloo Region it has been functioning for free for over 12,000 years and you can't buy that kind of tech. Here are two slides to illustrate the economic need to protect our aquifers and wells.  



In the attachments is the new Science and Policy brief, a 10 page document produced by SaveOurWater.ca which gives the overview of the Nestle Water Taking issue in Wellington around Guelph. The water quantity risk assessments for Centre Wellington failed to have regard for Nestle's volumes because currently there is no permit issued.  (they were taking the water without one for some time) It also speaks to the alarming tax burdens and externalized impacts this project could have on the community and environment but most alarmingly,  it raises concerns for outdated models being used that predates the current knowledge produced by the Ontario Geological Survey which shows substantial differences in the layout of the bedrock that identified far less water available for deep municipal wells. The future wells, together with this private large-scale pumping in the same area, is not feasible. They thought the aquifers were 25-70 Meters deep like like in Guelph but the high production aquifer under Centre Wellington is only 8 to 10 metres deep with 98% of thewater originating as rain and snow melt within theimmediate area. 
They're in the position of being at risk of water quantity issues even without Nestle. 
Full report in attachment. 

These economic values were made possible because people took the time to do the math. The public took the time to do their homework to flag the risks. We should not rely time and time again for the public to have to serve as whistleblowers. I have been doing that for 20 years and I'm not going to be around forever here. I want to see a system in place before I die. One that makes sense to protect human lives for generations to come. 
Aggregates are not just rocks nor should they simply be valued by the pound but by their natural capital function in providing water supplies to communities and growing food and supporting nature.  Value them for the soil on top that grows our food. Value them as habitats for the wetlands and as habitats of valuable biota in the substrates that serve to filter our water to make it drinkable. Value them for regulating the water flow, water volumes and flow rates to our rivers and wells. Value them for keeping water temperatures cold for fish. Value them for the trees above that give our air, their roots and leaves and shade for ferns that hold moisture maintaining recharge areas and for their evapotranspiration regulating our weather and oxygen. Where there is no water there is no life. Protect the rocks that holds the water to protect life. Deuteronomy 11 vs. 10-18. The wisdom and knowledge to value and protect these systems was understood even in the age of Moses. 
Nature is being destroyed along with our economy because in the 150 years time of Canadian governance, the system was crafted into silos when it comes to water and aggregates. Health is one ministry. Water permits are handled by MOE. The fish laws split up by MNR and DFO and neither one has the jurisdictional power to over ride the Treaty Rights of First Nations. Provincial fish protection laws and pollution laws don't apply onto First Nations lands and we see pollution unaccounted for as a result. Canada's MNR has a mandate to promote mining and aggregate extraction. They make money off the permits while acting as a regulator and the largest buyer of the aggregates is the Ministry of Transportation. That is unreasonable. Indigenous territories make up .02 of Canada's land mass so they say, and yet every pipeline approved by Harper seems to cross these properties. 
We need objectivity to plan for the long term health and protection of the water systems of the lands and all the people who need that water and for the fish too.  Don't gerrymander the laws with imaginary lines delineating province and community , government departments, Canada vs. First Nations etc. The water exists and it doesn't care about your laws. The laws can't govern the water. You have to govern yourselves to work with it responsibly. That is the humility our government lacks today. We must have humility to nature to plan responsibly for the future generations who need these life supports and we need the humility to act with care to both value it and protect it in perpetuity. 
Thank you kindly for your time. I hope these words can serve the better the lives for future generations. 
Yours in good faith,
Louisette Lanteigne700 Star Flower Ave.Waterloo ONN2V 2L2  519-885-7619

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