Cc: NSEL-Water Line (delwater@gov.ns.ca); Marilyn
More (Dartmouth South Portland Valley) (marilynmore@ns.sympatico.ca); Mayor
Peter Kelly (kellyp@halifax.ca); Dy. Mayor Sue Uteck (utecks@halifax.ca);
Councillor Gloria McCluskey (Regional Plan Advisory Committee-RPAC; Dartmouth
Lakes Advisory Board-DLAB) (mcclusg@halifax.ca); Councillor Andrew Younger
(youngea@halifax.ca); Councillor Debbie Hum (humd@halifax.ca); Premier Rodney
MacDonald (Nova Scotia) (Premier@gov.ns.ca); Councillor Gary Martin (Bedford
Watershed Advisory Board-HRM) (martinga@halifax.ca); Councillor Mary Wile
(Halifax Watershed Advisory Board-HRM) (wilema@halifax.ca); Brad Anguish PEng
(Director-EMS-HRM); Paul Dunphy MCIP (Director-Community Developmen-HRM)
(dunphyp@halifax.ca); Councillor Sheila Fougere (fougers@halifax.ca); Hon.
Darrell Dexter (Opposition Leader-NS) (ddexter@ns.sympatico.ca); Howard Epstein
LLB (MLA-Halifax Chebucto) (hepstein@ns.aliantzinc.ca); Joan Massey
(MLA-Dartmouth East) (joanmasseymla@ns.aliantzinc.ca); Marilyn More
(MLA-Dartmouth South Portland Valley) (marilynmoremla@ns.aliantzinc.ca); Michele
Raymond (Opposition Environment Critic) (mhraymondmla@eastlink.ca); Prof.
Leonard Preyra PhD (MLA-Halifax Citadel) (preyra@eastlink.ca); Trevor Zinck
(MLA-Dartmouth North) (tzinck@ns.aliantzinc.ca); Diana Whalen (MLA-Halifax
Clayton Park) (whalendc@gov.ns.ca); Geoff Regan (Minister-DFO); Keith Colwell
(colwelkw@gov.ns.ca); Leo Glavine (Liberal Environment Critic); Michael Savage
(MP-Dartmouth) (msavage@ns.aliantzinc.ca); Michel Samson (Interim Liberal
Leader-NS) (samsonmp@gov.ns.ca); Nancy Vanstone (Assistant Deputy
Minister-NSEL); William Lahey (Deputy Minister-NSEL) (laheywg@gov.ns.ca); Dan
English MPA (CAO-HRM) (englisd@halifax.ca); Geri Kaiser (DCAO-Corporate Services
& Strategy-HRM) (kaiserg@halifax.ca); Wayne Anstey QC (DCAO-Operations-HRM)
(ansteyw@halifax.ca); Darlene S. Fenton (Manager-Central Region-NSEL)
(FENTONDS@gov.ns.ca); Gerard MacLellan (Exec. Director-EMC Regional and District
Offices-NSEL) (maclelgj@gov.ns.ca); Kim MacNeil (Exec. Dir.-Env. & Natural
Areas-NSEL) (macneijk@gov.ns.ca)
Subject: Reinforcement of the dire
need of an authentic FRESHWATER AUTHORITY at the NSEL!
(This will perhaps be the briefest
e-mail (or facsimile) that we sent your department over the last twenty-20 long
years to pre-empt the excuses of lengthy communications for perpetual
inactions!)
We herewith respectfully beg Sir
that you set up a PRAGMATIC FRESHWATER
AUTHORITY at your publicly funded department without any further delay. We
had already made several written formal
submissions to your department dating back to the era of the Hon. John Leefe
BEd (kindly click on the underlined words to access the relevant web
pages).
This is as a result of multiple aspects that you must
be already aware of based on past communications to/with you and your
predecessors of all political stripes coupled with your pro-environment
statements made in the media during the last 2 weeks!
You have no authentic pragmatic
experts in the freshwater sciences and neither does any of the municipalities
inclusive of the HRM (HRM staff’s latest total failure was evident in a recent
submission they made to the Regional Council on lake water quality which was
not based on sound limnological principles and I had sent most of you detailed
e-mails on it).
There are indeed international
ACCREDITATIONS available for which present and/or future employees can apply
for.
Incidentally, this is NOT
engineering or hydrogeology or general biology though a background in all will
be an added asset!
And the staff paid with public funds
must work pragmatically rather than be typical `backseat advisers’ as is now the
perpetual case, alas! If necessary, present senior staff should be
replaced.
This procedure has indeed been
followed in some enlightened State jurisdictions in the
Shalom Murti
Mandaville Post-Grad Dip.,
Chair & Scientific
Director
Soil & Water Conservation
Society of Metro Halifax- SWCSMH, a multi-discipline
scientific/technical stakeholder group
Tel:
902-463-7777
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You
have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to
Helen
Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother
Teresa, Leonardo da
Vinci, Thomas
Jefferson, and Albert
Einstein." (H. Jackson Brown in Chronicle Herald; June 12,
2006)
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