<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span>Hi folks</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">I wrote to our local. provincial and federal politicians last night regarding Lake Erie's fish kill.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">I got a written response
from Ken Seiling and then I wrote him back. Below are the correspondences exchanged in regards to Lake Erie's fish kills. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">I highly encourage members of GREN to contact these people if you would like to contribute further knowledge regarding this situation. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Louisette Lanteigne</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;
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<melissa.durrell@waterloo.ca>; "jeff.henry@waterloo.ca" <jeff.henry@waterloo.ca> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Regional Councillors <RegionalCouncillors@regionofwaterloo.ca>; "dschultz@grandriver.ca" <dschultz@grandriver.ca>; "dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "ahorwath-qp@ndp.on.ca" <ahorwath-qp@ndp.on.ca>; "catherinefife@on.ndp.ca" <catherinefife@on.ndp.ca>; "jmilloy.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <jmilloy.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "stephen.woodworth@parl.gc.ca" <stephen.woodworth@parl.gc.ca>; "harold.albrecht@parl.gc.ca" <harold.albrecht@parl.gc.ca>; "gary.goodyear@parl.gc.ca" <gary.goodyear@parl.gc.ca>; "peter.braid@parl.gc.ca" <peter.braid@parl.gc.ca>; Peter Kent P.C. M.P. <minister@ec.gc.ca>; "bob.rae@parl.gc.ca" <bob.rae@parl.gc.ca>; "thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca" <thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca>; "pm@pm.gc.ca"
<pm@pm.gc.ca>; "Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca" <Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca>; "tim.hudak@pc.ola.org" <tim.hudak@pc.ola.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 8, 2012 1:39:10 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Lake Erie massive fish and bird deaths <br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1926448615"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>Dear Mr. Seiling et al: </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>I
respectfully decline the belief that Lake Erie's fish kill is a "Natural " act. On the contrary, it is the result of man made actions taking place within the watershed. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> For the MNR to imply this is anything less than a man made issue is morally, ethically and scientifically wrong.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>Here is the feedback from World Reknowned Biologist and Fish Expert Alan Marshall regarding this fish kill and how human actions at the local level are having an impact on Erie: </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://elmiraadvocate.blogspot.ca/2012/09/anthropogenic-human-causes-of-massive.html">http://elmiraadvocate.blogspot.ca/2012/09/anthropogenic-human-causes-of-massive.html</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Cottager Nevill Knowels has lived along Lake Erie for 50 years and he has never experienced anything like this before. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Globally, this is NOT an isolated incident. Fish, mammals and even whales are washing up right now along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec along Les Escoumins in the Lower North Shore and the Southern Shore. Globally we're seeing more and more Blue Green Algae and Red Tide outbreaks at huge scale. Currently, the<span style="background-color:transparent;"> Yangtze, the
world's third largest river, has gone red and it's most likely from Red Tide. You can view the photos here: </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199800/The-river-DID-run-red-Residents-Chinese-city-left-baffled-Yangtze-turns-scarlet.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199800/The-river-DID-run-red-Residents-Chinese-city-left-baffled-Yangtze-turns-scarlet.html</a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">The article implies they don't know the cause but the fact is, Red Tide
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Yangtze at least 25 times before: </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22165212">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22165212</a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;">The general ministry attitude is: Keep calm, don't tell the public the truth just say it's a natural process but the reality is it's a situation based on pollution and it's being aggravated by climate change. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0,
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font-style:normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Our region needs to get real with the fact, that we're loosing Erie as a viable water supply. It will not be drinkable. Our growth ambitions, our gravel pit extractions and development plans that were established by over 30 years are proving to be scientifically unsustainable. This fish kill is proof of that. It's already tipping. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-family:
arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">If we continue to</span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> proceed to continue on the path of business as usual, we continue to will lose volumes of water that provides for our local economic systems and there will not be a viable alternative should the decline of Erie's water volumes continue.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;">If you want to see where we are headed I suggest you review this article showing what is taking place in Lake Winnipeg. That location is considered to have the worst algae problem of any freshwater lake in
the world. Algal blooms kill fish, increase costs of water treatment, devalue shoreline properties and pose health risks to children, pets and livestock.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/algal-toxin-high-here-study-166226686.html" style="background-color:transparent;">http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/algal-toxin-high-here-study-166226686.html</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Experts have been trying desperately to fix Lake Winnipeg for years but if they they can't save this lake, what on earth makes you think they can fix Erie? </div><div style="color:
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york', times, serif;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Ken Seiling <KSeiling@regionofwaterloo.ca><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com>; Brenda Halloran <bhalloran@city.waterloo.on.ca>; Scott Witmer <switmer@city.waterloo.on.ca>; Karen Scian <kscian@city.waterloo.on.ca>; Angela Vieth <avieth@city.waterloo.on.ca>; Diane Freeman <dfreeman@city.waterloo.on.ca>; Mark Whaley <mwhaley@city.waterloo.on.ca>; "melissa.durrell@waterloo.ca" <melissa.durrell@waterloo.ca>; "jeff.henry@waterloo.ca" <jeff.henry@waterloo.ca> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</span></b> Regional Councillors <RegionalCouncillors@regionofwaterloo.ca>; Jan d'Ailly <jdailly@city.waterloo.on.ca>; Ian McLean <imclean@city.waterloo.on.ca>;
"dschultz@grandriver.ca" <dschultz@grandriver.ca>; "dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "ahorwath-qp@ndp.on.ca" <ahorwath-qp@ndp.on.ca>; "catherinefife@on.ndp.ca" <catherinefife@on.ndp.ca>; "jmilloy.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <jmilloy.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "stephen.woodworth@parl.gc.ca" <stephen.woodworth@parl.gc.ca>; "harold.albrecht@parl.gc.ca" <harold.albrecht@parl.gc.ca>; "gary.goodyear@parl.gc.ca" <gary.goodyear@parl.gc.ca>; "peter.braid@parl.gc.ca" <peter.braid@parl.gc.ca>; Peter Kent P.C. M.P. <minister@ec.gc.ca>; "bob.rae@parl.gc.ca" <bob.rae@parl.gc.ca>; "thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca" <thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca>; "pm@pm.gc.ca" <pm@pm.gc.ca>; "Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca" <Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca>; "tim.hudak@pc.ola.org" <tim.hudak@pc.ola.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 8, 2012
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<div>Thanks for your email Louisette<a rel="nofollow" href=""></a><a rel="nofollow" href=""></a>. The story which I read this morning in the Star attributed the fish kill to lack of oxygen due to a cold water inversion in the lake. It is always interesting<a rel="nofollow" href=""></a> to keep tabs on the Great Lakes as they are
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<b>To:</b> Brenda Halloran; Scott Witmer; Karen Scian; Angela Vieth; Diane Freeman; Mark Whaley; melissa.durrell@waterloo.ca; jeff.henry@waterloo.ca<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Regional Councillors; Jan d'Ailly; Ian McLean; dschultz@grandriver.ca; dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org; ahorwath-qp@ndp.on.ca; catherinefife@on.ndp.ca; jmilloy.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org; stephen.woodworth@parl.gc.ca; harold.albrecht@parl.gc.ca; gary.goodyear@parl.gc.ca;
peter.braid@parl.gc.ca; Peter Kent P.C. M.P.; bob.rae@parl.gc.ca; thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca; pm@pm.gc.ca; Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca; tim.hudak@pc.ola.org<br>
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<span style="line-height: 15px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Currently Lake Erie is seeing the largest die off of near shore fish in recent history. The beaches are littered, and in some cases, covered with tens of thousands of rotting fish. Species
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Thousands of rotten dead fish and some dead birds are along Lake Erie's shoreline right now, along 40 km of beach. The cause according to this news story published in the Toronto Star is: Nitrate issues: The lack of oxygen resulting from the breakdown of organic
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<span style="FONT-SIZE:16px;">Recently this research story came out noting the presence of a pathogen linked to human sewage at Beaches on the US section of Erie. The researchers found Arcobacter at all beeches they tested. 75.2% of 129 </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;">samples <span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans; ">with
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groundwater has been available to dilute farm wastes and aquifer contaminates. With the recent heavy rains we had a high flush of manure dust and organic materials introduced into tributaries creating a spike in nitrate issues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">I'm wondering if the lack of rain over summer months may have gone beyond the design constraints of our sewage discharge processes resulting in the release of higher than normal concentrations of organic
manner into the Grand. I have a hard time thinking we actually had enough flow to reasonably dilute the waste materials. The situation might pose serious health risks for private well system owners right now since there is less water to dilute point source
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When you factor in these considerations plus the amount of stress fish face in regards to the elevated temperatures we've been experiencing, it's no wonder they're dying off. </div>
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Now more than ever we must prohibit any further activity that threatens our primary recharge areas. Lake Erie is already reaching a major tipping point and we are only at the very beginning of all this. The least we can do is seek provincial help to expand
the Greenbelt to include our ESL's to protect them from potential aggregate extractions. I created this power point which I presented to ARA committee for consideration during the review of the Aggregate Resource Act. If you have not reviewed it I highly
encourage you to to do so in order to understand the enormous economic, ecological and social risks posed by gravel pit operations in our area. Knowledge of this must be shared with higher powers in order to get them to realize the urgency of this situation.</div>
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To save the water supply we must protect the natural sediment composition of our primary recharge areas. Protect the trees and vegetation that captures the dew and holds in the moisture while protecting the <span style="FONT-SIZE:16px;BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;">biodiversity
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We must protect and preserve all of our remaining wetlands including Hidden Valley. These wetlands filter the water, reducing 80 to 90% of phosphate and nitrates naturally plus they regulate the atmospheric temperatures. </div>
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Storm water management ponds cannot reasonably replicate the function of natural wetlands due to the presence of roadsalts and other contaminates. These man made ponds attract geese and water fowl who release nitrate and phosphate rich droppings and are often
located in urban areas where there is a lack of natural predation to control bird populations. This contributes to the growth of toxic algae.</div>
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<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;">One way we can afford to purchase lands such as HIdden Valley in Kitchener is by way of creating a municipal levee on heavy industrial water users. The logic being, water is a public commodity and private industries
are benefiting from it paying a pittance of the true costs of water treatment and transportation. Even if companies have their own wells, the burdens they create associated with the depletion of the public resource falls heavily upon local taxpayers. If we
create a levee it will help to secure the long protection of natural source areas for all of us. It's a mutually amicable solution. The levee will also serve as an
</span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;">economic incentive to implement corporate water reduction or recycling strategies.</span></div>
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<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;">Thank you kindly for your time. </span></div>
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