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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> Good Lord, Lulu, there may come a day when I see you as a minister.... like... MOE MNR MOF ETC ETC ETC ...you just keep gleaning all this info and sharing it.. I’m so scattered with my multiple interests in enviro...plus saving hospital (1996-1998) now the reunion in CELEBRATION of St. Mary’s Hospital .... Then.... keeping the contaminated soil company from opening up so close to our New and Enhanced St. Mary’s, as well as the cessation of their Air Emissions Licence in one of the worst smog cities in Canada. Many people do not know that one of the main reasons we ARE the worst is because of ‘stuff’ coming up from Ohio etc in the US, but also because of our Geographic nature. We are in a little basin like site (kind of like surrounded by higher land ) and it takes a kind of high wind to blow the smog out of here. Plus we are now increasingly creating more and more of our own smog, with additional immigrants and more cars and more buildings etc etc etc. I was always shocked that Hamilton could produce so much smoke and smog and not be worse than us.....however, Hamilton is on a higher plain and the wind takes their junk away (I don’t know if any reaches us, but have never heard that accusation.) So, I need my little reward for writing this ...I hope that at least ONE person now understands this scenario better today than they did yesterday.... and would you reward me by writing to <a href="mailto:all@gren.ca">all@gren.ca</a> and make my day tomorrow by admitting you have learned from my rant tonight. Thank you ALL for the way we share and help each other in our quest to leave a lot more than “a little” bit for the next <b>seven generations</b> (as this site was called for some years) I am proud to be a small part of you. Ginny Quinn<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> all-bounces@gren.ca [mailto:all-bounces@gren.ca] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Louisette Lanteigne<br><b>Sent:</b> March-31-11 10:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> all@gren.ca<br><b>Subject:</b> [All] Fw: Minister's response to your e-mail of January 24, 2011 - File 53435<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi folks<br><br>The Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing said the Minister of Environment may be open to discussion about a Waterloo Moraine Act. He has invited me to speak further on the matter with the MOE Minister Wilkinson. I used to go to church with the entire Wilkinson family for years in Trenton where I grew up. We sat behind his family in church so it will be nice to see him again. See letter in the attachment for details. <br><br>This election I've been working with the Liberal party and tonight I got a call. I'll be meeting Michael Ignatieff tomorrow with the rest of the KW liberal supporters. I'd like to ask him how much money the Liberal Party intends to allocate towards their proposed federal water protection act. <br><br>I've been reviewing the Highland Quarry data and the Hydrogeology reports are absolutely outrageous.<br><br>I'm working on a draft response but in a nutshell I can tell you the following: They based their data on modflow models which is computer program to determine flow based on numbers from bore hole data. Since many of the surrounding land owners prohibited them from entering their property to test their wells, many of the bore hole readings used for Modflow were taken back in 1945. Without access to those wells they relied on the MOE info regarding the standard drinking water tests for residental wells as if that data could reasonably forcast the water quality impacts of this mega quarry. Modflow doesn't have much regard to geology or sediment type so all their projections on infiltration rates are pretty much fabricated on unsubstantiated claims. There is really no reasonable baseline data to work with in regards to this project. No spring thaw analysis, lack of 12 month creek studies etc. Same old same old. <br><br>If I were going to the OMB against this, the professionals needed would include a geologist/sediment expert and hydrologist. They'd have a field day with this rubbish. Here's the EIS link if your curious:<br><br><a href="http://www.highlandcompanies.ca/index.php/companies/melancthonquarry/technical_studies/" target="_blank">http://www.highlandcompanies.ca/index.php/companies/melancthonquarry/technical_studies/</a><br><br>Have a good one folks<br><br>Lulu :0)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>