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<DIV>Lulu With the proximity of the wellhead and the high water
table and proximity of Strasburg Creek are you SURE that
there have been NO EIS studies ??Please tell me where I can confirm this
fact. and I'll see if I can get my teeth into that one
correctly. Or if they're going to do it soon ??? and is
responsible to see that it is done???Thanks Ginny</DIV>
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<DIV>Alicia I'm copying you on this because we have to keep you
updated Ginny</DIV>
<DIV>I want to write to the Editor but MUST have my facts straight.
GQ</DIV>
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<A title=butterflybluelu@rogers.com
href="mailto:butterflybluelu@rogers.com">Louisette Lanteigne</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=all@gren.ca
href="mailto:all@gren.ca">all@gren.ca</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:42
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [All] Challenges we still face
on Source Protection</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>Hi folks<BR><BR>Last night the city of Kitchener approved
building a gas bar with car wash to be built over top a sensitive well
head protection area within 500 meters of Strasburg Creek. The runoff
from the car wash is intended to discharge into sewers, the related
chloride of road salts from the cars will end up in the Grand because
they can't remove it. The Fuel storage is supposedly going to be placed
"above the water line" using a fiber glass tank, but the land has not
been subject to an EIS study. The zoning was given back in 1987 so the
ecological constraints are set to those standards.<BR><BR>Well over a
hundred signed the petition against it, all delegates opposed it except
for Mr. Brittan who was representing the group. No regional hydrology
staff or GRCA were present. Council said the GRCA approved this, and
council Vrbanic stated that even with todays laws it would still
technically be a use allowed for this location. Kelly Galloway stated
that conflicts with what she was told by Regional Staff. According to
the current ROPP it would not be allowed but the ministry has yet to
fully approve that ROPP so it doesn't stick yet.<BR><BR>Citizens tried
to put a delay on the project stating more info is needed, why not let
the next council participate in this decision but no delay was given.
They simply approved of it with the only opposition from Ms. Wiley and
Ms. Galloway.<BR><BR>When Mr.Gazolla started speaking of his confidence
of developers to be able to responsibly construct this project in this
area I lost it. I stood up, showed him my the iron suppliments my doctor
ordered me to take to make up for the chronic anemia I have from all the
bloody episodes of e coli that I endured in my subdivision. The result
of poor planning has changed the biological composition of my blood. I
stormed out of there so angry. They just don't get it. They have not
actualized the risk.<BR><BR>The technical manual as produced by the MOE
clearly identifies projects of this nature as a "threat to drinking
water quality". I told them in my speech how all the legislation I've
reviewed from the Clean Water Act, the Ontario Source Protection Act,
the PPS, ROPP, Kitchener OPP, there is no way this project can
reasonably be viewed as compliant. Seriously, if any of those pipes sink
or shift for either the car wash or the gas station it's contamination.
They just don't get it<BR><BR>The City planners and city council are
woefully undereducated on the bona fide risks and they give absolutely
no regard to any legislation outside of the outdated planning policies
of this project. They don't know or understand what other options
exist.<BR><BR>At this time we are sitting along a fault line where on
one side there has been extraordinary scientific advancements that can
identify ecological and hydrological risks and develop policy strategies
to avert them. On the other side there are past plans and associated
fiscal investments pushing the ecological limits to advance forward.
It's a time of opposing and conflicting values, opposing and conflicting
long term economic and environmental visions. To add to the sense of
horror, the educated public is witnessing these economic projects come
to fruition going beyond environmental constraints. We can see the
damages at the local level with Elmira, Northstar, leaky landfills etc.
Then at the national level we have Tar Sands, the Gulf Oil spill.
The trust in government working for the good will of the people has been
shattered at every level we have a gross disconnect between municipal
objectives and the public. <BR><BR>It's easy to blame council, but on
the flip side, the latest ROPP is amazing. Our policies are trying catch
up to science and make everyone happy while trying to avert fiscal
disaster associated with previous investments. <BR><BR>Maybe GREN needs
to create a panel to consult with ministry officials and planners to see
if we can create ways to intervene with past planning that poses a risk
if only to bump up mitigation strategies. If we created a report like
that we can distribute this widely, not only our region but others.
<BR><BR>Politicans across Ontario need access to options like this
otherwise these crazy things are going to continue over and over again.
Reactionary approaches are weakest but in providing strategies,knowledge
that can be used, to address these types of issues, now that's the path
to creating real solutions. <BR><BR>Lulu :0)<BR></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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