<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> eco <commissioner@eco.on.ca>; "dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "peter.braid@parl.gc.ca" <peter.braid@parl.gc.ca>; Peter Kent P.C. M.P. <minister@ec.gc.ca>; "Joe.Oliver@parl.gc.ca" <Joe.Oliver@parl.gc.ca>; Prime Minister/ Premier Ministre <pm@pm.gc.ca>; "bob.rae@parl.gc.ca" <bob.rae@parl.gc.ca>;
"Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca" <Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca>; "thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca" <thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca>; Tim ( MAH) Ryall <tim.ryall@ontario.ca>; "justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca" <justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca>; "ahorwath-qp@ndp.on.ca" <ahorwath-qp@ndp.on.ca>; "hhampton-qp@ndp.on.ca" <hhampton-qp@ndp.on.ca>; "catherinefife@on.ndp.ca" <catherinefife@on.ndp.ca>; "gerry.ritz@parl.gc.ca" <gerry.ritz@parl.gc.ca>; "tim.hudak@pc.ola.org" <tim.hudak@pc.ola.org>; "harold.albrecht@parl.gc.ca" <harold.albrecht@parl.gc.ca>; "gary.goodyear@parl.gc.ca" <gary.goodyear@parl.gc.ca>; "stephen.woodworth@parl.gc.ca" <stephen.woodworth@parl.gc.ca>; "jbradley.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <jbradley.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "jmilloy.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <jmilloy.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; Cbentley Mpp <cbentley.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "dcansfield.mpp@liberal.ola.org"
<dcansfield.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "bchiarelli.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" <bchiarelli.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>; "tabunsp-qp@ndp.on.ca" <tabunsp-qp@ndp.on.ca>; "gcrack.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <gcrack.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "ddamerla.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <ddamerla.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "dduncan.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <dduncan.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "mgravelle.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <mgravelle.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "hjaczek.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <hjaczek.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "mkwinter.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <mkwinter.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "tmcmeekin.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <tmcmeekin.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "lsandals.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <lsandals.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "dzimmer.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <dzimmer.mpp@liberal.ola.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, January 13, 2013 3:10:11 PM<br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Climate Change in Waterloo ON & need to protect food and water<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1085857556"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hello</div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div id="yiv1085857556"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div id="yiv1085857556"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times,
serif;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div id="yiv1085857556"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div id="yiv1085857556"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">I posted a You Tube video of my garden this morning on January 13, 2013 in Waterloo Ontario Canada. Broccoli is growing and ready to pick, celery and Kale is growing, lilac trees in bud, hollyhocks growing, snapdragon flowers are
blooming. <span style="font-size:12pt;">Please feel free to show that you tube video. Here is the
link:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O8Cm7Q9r48">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O8Cm7Q9r48</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:12pt;">I have worked with frogwatch Ontario for many years. Normally we don't see temperatures over 4 degrees at a steady level until early March when the early spring rains come and that gets animals like
Jefferson Salamanders on the move. Yesterday the UW weather station said we had a high of 11.6 C in the last 24 hours. It's a full melt right now. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:12pt;">Clearly we need to take action on climate change. The sever disruption of natural weather patterns is evident. There is no plausable deniability that the oil industry, and bad development practices is disrupting nature itself. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:12pt;"><br></span></div><div><font size="3">Yesterday in Paris Ontario on
Jan 12th 2013, I saw Maude Barlow who stated that the Ogallala Aquifer will be gone in our lifetime. That aquifer provides for 30% of the US grain supply. She stated by 2030 the world's demand for water will exceed availability by 30%. The drought is creating "Hot stains" in the the world from drought. </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div><font size="3">Currently 1/4 of the oceans rising sea levels is because we are paving over source areas, building quarries in recharge areas and diverting water to big cities who use it and dump it into water systems leading to the ocean. For example, here in Waterloo Ontario, we are digging up our recharge for gravel, pave it over than dump the waste water into the Grand which drains to Erie through the Great Lakes to the sea. Repeat this over time, we deplete our inland water supplies for good and raise sea levels. We create
flood drought </font>scenarios<font size="3"> and ruin our local agricultural industries along with inland fisheries and ecosystems. </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div><font size="3">Mumbai is at the bottom of their water table now and Mexico city is sinking onto itself because aquifers are depleted. Sink holes are forming. That can happen in Waterloo Region too if we don't protect our aquifers. </font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><div>Right now, China is stockpiling rice, precious metals, iron ore and dry milk. UN Agricultural experts note that China imported 2.6 million tonnes of rice in 2012, more than four-fold from 2011 levels. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.wealthwire.com/news/global/4395">http://www.wealthwire.com/news/global/4395</a> </div></font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div>Meanwhile 70% of Ontario's natural wetlands are gone. They used to process 80 to 90% of phosphates and nitrates. Now we have Lake Erie going toxic due to blue green algae who are fed with the phosphate wastes of our effluent and unsustainable development practices. </div><div><br></div><div>The province ignored the inclusion of gravel pits as a risk to source areas and this is unreasonable. Natural systems are worth billions annually and yet we fail to put a price on the value of aggregates left in place for the function they serve in supporting water supplies and the economic systems and communities dependent on it. </div><div><br></div><div>Planners and engineering firms are too confident that they can circumvent the risks with man made schemes but science has shown they have
failed miserably. They destroyed the Ogallala. If we could resolve these issues don't you think the US midwest, Australia,
China have acted on that prior to the droughts they have? They are suffering right now. </div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">We must prohibit development on all primary recharge areas and prime farmlands. In Vermont they successfully passed a law that states that water is no only in the public trust, it belongs to the ecosystem. Local food trumps water export needs. They made it a law and we should too as soon as possible. Time is of the essence. </font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">The World Bank predicts that 44% of the world's farmlands will be in a state of drought with the most severe impacts in the US, Southern Europe, Southern Africa and South East Asia. This is evident of the fact that even with Best Management Practices are not working. We must manage populations within the natural carrying capacity of the lands on which they live. Work within nature's constraints rather
than to flaw miserably as we craft our ways beyond logical limits. </font></div><div><br></div><div>Our National Water Act is 43 years old. It is unreasonable we continue without revising it. We have no National Drinking Water Standard and that is unreasonable. We have no Aquifer Mappings so we're planning in the dark. This is also unreasonable. </div><div><br></div><div>Our nation is at immediate risk.</div><div><br></div><div>I demand a moratorium on all projects that place Canada's water resources and farmlands at risk until we establish reasonable policy and protocols to prevent the associated food and water security issues. This includes tar sands expansion projects. We must keep local water supplies local to restore the health of our ecosystems and economy for the long term. </div><div><br></div><div>Agriculture is worth $50 billion annually for Ontario alone annually yet only 5% of our lands
are established farmlands yet they are being raised for urban sprawl, roadways and gravel pits. To save our food and water you can start by implementing a Waterloo Moraine Protection Act to protect Waterloo Region and Lake Erie. Prohibit the pits from digging primary recharge areas and the Grand River. Save our farmlands to provide food for generations to come. </div><div><br></div><div>Here is a supporting power point I created to show how protecting Waterloo's aquifers makes good economic sense. </div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 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>Imagine the prosperity Canada would have in protecting these resources. Our bounty could feed the world. </div><div><br></div><div>In closing I include this passage
from the bible, where God
speaks to Moses about how to care for the promised land. </div><div class="yiv1085857556heading yiv1085857556passage-class-0" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(92, 17, 1); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><h3 style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;">Deuteronomy 11</h3><div class="yiv1085857556txt-sm" style="font-size:12px;">New King James Version</div></div><div><div style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span id="yiv1085857556en-NKJV-5217" class="yiv1085857556text yiv1085857556Deut-11-8"><sup class="yiv1085857556versenum" style="font-size:0.75em;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;">8 </sup>“Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess, </span><span id="yiv1085857556en-NKJV-5218" class="yiv1085857556text
yiv1085857556Deut-11-9"><sup class="yiv1085857556versenum" style="font-size:0.75em;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;">9 </sup>and
that you may prolong <i>your</i> days in the land which the <span class="yiv1085857556small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span> swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’<sup class="yiv1085857556footnote" style="font-size:0.65em;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;">[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+11&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-5218a" title="See footnote a" style="color:rgb(179, 113, 98);vertical-align:top;">a</a>]</sup> </span><span id="yiv1085857556en-NKJV-5219" class="yiv1085857556text yiv1085857556Deut-11-10"><sup class="yiv1085857556versenum" style="font-size:0.75em;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;">10 </sup>For the land which you go to possess <i>is</i> not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and
watered <i>it</i> by foot, as a vegetable garden; </span><span id="yiv1085857556en-NKJV-5220" class="yiv1085857556text yiv1085857556Deut-11-11"><sup class="yiv1085857556versenum" style="font-size:0.75em;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;">11 </sup>but the land which you cross over to possess <i>is</i> a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, </span><span id="yiv1085857556en-NKJV-5221" class="yiv1085857556text yiv1085857556Deut-11-12"><sup class="yiv1085857556versenum" style="font-size:0.75em;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;">12 </sup>a land for which the <span class="yiv1085857556small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span> your God cares; the eyes of the <span class="yiv1085857556small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span> your God <i>are</i> always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the
year.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span id="yiv1085857556en-NKJV-5222" class="yiv1085857556text yiv1085857556Deut-11-13"><sup class="yiv1085857556versenum" style="font-size:0.75em;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;">13 </sup>‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the <span class="yiv1085857556small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span> your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, </span><span id="yiv1085857556en-NKJV-5223" class="yiv1085857556text yiv1085857556Deut-11-14"><sup class="yiv1085857556versenum" style="font-size:0.75em;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;">14 </sup>then I<sup class="yiv1085857556footnote" style="font-size:0.65em;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;">[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+11&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-5223b" title="See footnote b" style="color:rgb(179, 113, 98);
vertical-align:top;">b</a>]</sup> will give <i>you</i> the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. </span><span id="yiv1085857556en-NKJV-5224" class="yiv1085857556text yiv1085857556Deut-11-15"><sup class="yiv1085857556versenum" style="font-size:0.75em;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;">15 </sup>And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.’ </span><span id="yiv1085857556en-NKJV-5225" class="yiv1085857556text yiv1085857556Deut-11-16"><sup class="yiv1085857556versenum" style="font-size:0.75em;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;">16 </sup>“Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them, </span><span id="yiv1085857556en-NKJV-5226" class="yiv1085857556text yiv1085857556Deut-11-17"><sup class="yiv1085857556versenum"
style="font-size:0.75em;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;">17 </sup>lest the <span class="yiv1085857556small-caps" style="
font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span>’s anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the <span class="yiv1085857556small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span> is giving you.</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>God warned us. This logic as written in the bible is still true to this day. </div><div><br></div><div>Yours in good faith,</div><div><br></div><div>Louisette Lanteigne</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="yiv1085857556yui_3_7_2_22_1358102300241_84">700 Star Flower Ave.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="yiv1085857556yui_3_7_2_22_1358102300241_84">Waterloo
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