<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Good work Lulu. <div>In my view relevant questions are next: eg. How does this analysis gain more credibility?(I refer to the way you have put it on an economic basis. Are there authoritative persons, professors, institutions, consulting firms out there who could lend weight to this viewpoint?) </div><div><br></div><div>How do policies and laws and amendments get put in place, so that development of land, and extraction of aggregates do not undercut the sustainable future self-reliant growth of the region and its contribution to the wealth of our children's Canada, our grandchildren's earth? </div><div><br></div><div>What policies and activities can be enhanced for these goals and what policies and activities can be curtailed, changed, or forbidden to prevent the destruction or irreparable damage of these renewable resources? </div><div><br></div><div> Besides this dissemination of info, where then, is the point of entry? </div><div><div><br></div><div>Here is what I think off the top. </div><div><br></div><div>I am especially struck by how your slide presentation not only establishes the bases for future sustainable growth: I believe it calls us to put into place a new economic analyses of water and agricultural land; careful studies of the aquifers and how they function using the latest instruments; removing the grandfathering of old studies and updating their true impacts; making engineering firms who do the baseline studies truly responsible for the inaccuracies and outdated methods; in light of other aquifers' continuing downward depletion, putting safeguards into place so we do not destroy our local water capital which is foundational for the contribution that this region makes to Canada's economy; protection of the recharge areas by giving some teeth both in terms of vigilance (environmental police?) and fines for poisoning the water and soil resources which belong to the people and the future generations. This seems daunting. Congratulations for kick-starting it. </div><div><br></div><div>This is my initial response. </div><div><br></div><div>Don </div><div><br></div><div>P.S. What authority does this ARA committee have? </div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 2012-07-05, at 4:38 PM, Louisette Lanteigne wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi folks</div><div><br></div><div>I submitted the following power point to the ARA committee. It can be viewed online here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/ara-submission-lanteigne-aggregate-risks-gdp-impacts">http://www.slideshare.net/Waterloomoriane/ara-submission-lanteigne-aggregate-risks-gdp-impacts</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Lulu </div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>All mailing list<br><a href="mailto:All@gren.ca">All@gren.ca</a><br>http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/all_gren.ca<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>