(Especially since this is the year
of Democracy 250, all recipients of this
email should click on the underlined words to launch the relevant web pages
since there is a wealth of web links here. This email contains excerpts only
from our archives. Kindly forward this email to Mr. Darrell Taylor of the
Water & Wastewater branch. ……………………
……………… This is Cc’d/Bcc’d to all
members of the HRM’s Regional Council and to professional staff that we feel
relevant since some of them have consulted `yours truly' extensively on lake
science/issues over decades directly and/or via their well paid consultants
and/or via stakeholder groups in their districts and/or via the academia, mostly
on a pro bono basis! Also
Bcc’d to all respected MLAs, MPs and Senators of Nova
Scotia!)
Index of
Contents: The four (4) items are clickable
and take you instantly to relevant sections of this
email:
(1) Our
origin (your department was indeed our prime founding partner in
1989;
(2) An overview of our dealings with your department;
(3) Commitment by the honest Premier Rt. Hon. John Hamm MD in 1999 which has not been
implemented to date; and
(4) Our
international members and formal associates, with a cautionary legal note to
your department!
(1)
Our origin: It may
appear unbelievable at first, but our group, the Soil & Water Conservation
Society of Metro Halifax (SWCSMH), would never have existed if it wasn’t for
your department!
With full blessings of your former
Minister, the Hon. JOHN
LEEFE BEd, our group was formed in 1989 at the strong encouragement of the
only (theoretical) limnologist that your department ever had, Dr. JOHN K. UNDERWOOD PhD,
who left your department during early 1990. Click on his name and you can view a
1.4-minute excerpt of a half hour Television show that we produced with him
while he was still employed with your department! It is in the popular MS WMV
format.
But some of us were pragmatically
active even prior to that dating back to the mid-1980’s and it was not as
typical `backseat advisers’ either!
Our `PRIME DIRECTIVE’:-- Our
understanding in 1990 was that, we (the SWCSMH) as a scientific
society, the Nova Scotia Dept. of Environment represented by the Minister; the
Dalhousie University Biology Department represented by one of our founding
members, the totally beloved Prof. Gordon Ogden III Jr.
(click his name to view an excerpt on stormwater management in
WMV format); and the federal Environment Canada represented by the well known Dr. Joe Kerekes PhD
(also a founding member of our group), would work together in expanding the data
base of lakes in the Metro Halifax area. Since then though, we expanded to cover
other areas of Nova Scotia and a few other
parts of Canada and the
USA where a handful of us act as
`scientific collaborators’!
Following that, our work literally
`ballooned’ from simple pelagic, i.e., open water, sampling (similar to what HRM now does)
to the present specialized Biological Limnology! We do
this since we are unaware of any Government agency, academia, or any other
entity carrying these out to the intensity that a handful of us
do!
Your department was supposed to give
continued support and pragmatic partnership, in perpetuity, per the professional
agreement!
Unfortunately, after the sudden
resignation of Dr. John K. Underwood in 1990, and the acquiring of his mantle by
former Manager, Andy Montgomery, the relationship rapidly
degenerated.
But it was partly restored by a
subsequent Manager, KATE
MOIR, and further restored when the present Manager, DAVID BRIGGINS P.Geo,
took over the mantle; but none of them excepting Dr. Underwood are
limnologists.
Dr. John Underwood is a
(theoretical) limnologist and subsequently joined our
group as a member though he has been inactive, hence is an
associate-member!
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(2)
See `An overview of our select
dealings’ with your department dating back to around 1987; it has links to
several web scans.
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(3)
Commitment by the
honest Premier Rt. Hon. John Hamm MD in 1999 which has not been implemented
until to date, alas.
Read the kind letter he
wrote `yours truly’ in 1999 but the `commitments’ have not been kept to
date, alas.
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(4)
Our
international members and formal associates with
a cautionary legal note to your department:
We have approximately four hundred
(400) members/associates all over Canada and the USA out of whom approximately two hundred (200)
are domiciled in our beloved Nova
Scotia, most of them being citizens all over
HRM!
All recipients of this email are
welcome to visit me at Maynard Lake,
Dartmouth (i.e., a lake akin to Thoreau’s Walden) and view the
membership/associate listing.
Indeed, a predecessor of yours,
Deputy Minister, Mr. Ron
L’Esperance (click his name to view a handwritten note) already visited me
in year-2003 for a whole hour.
See also photographs of His Worship
PETER
KELLY and the ebullient Councillor GLORIA
McCLUSKEY standing in front of my large poster of Albert
Einstein!
Among our international listing, you
will find varied specialists experts as well as numero uno experts in most disciplines
relating to Limnology, Toxicology, Medical Microbiology, a few in Environmental
Engineering, and even in politics (imagine)!
The deceased Senator, Mike
Forrestall, of Dartmouth was indeed one of our formal
members.
Several of your department’s and
HRM’s staff have visited me as well for some deep
discussions.
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Shalom Murti
Mandaville Post-Grad Dip., Professional Lake Manage.
Chair & Scientific
Director
Soil & Water Conservation
Society of Metro Halifax- SWCSMH, a multi-discipline scientific/technical stakeholder
group
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