Informal email only:-- I thought I
owe you this email after my deep talk minutes back. No need to respond at all
unless you have questions. Only 3 aspects below and as always, you have to click
on underlined words to launch the relevant web
pages:-
(1)
SEMO’s
report to the Regional Council when I requested for only a miserly 5-minute
presentation. Neither the SEMO nor the Municipal Clerk sent me that brief
report, it was just an Info Item which I consider one hundred percent (100%)
unethical and unprofessional, especially when it was signed by a non‑scientist,
i.e., Peter Duncan PEng. He has ZERO credibility in any authentic environmental
specialties.
Even some of our local engineering
professor‑members already told me about him; we have now around a massive forty
(40) or so professors or recently retired professors from across North America
in our group (some from world renown universities), and they are professors in
multiple fields inclusive of in formal CIVIL engineering and in formal
ENVIRONMENTAL engineering. Every traditional engineer in all municipalities and
many in other levels of Governments (inclusive of the NS Environment Dept.) are
actually CIVIL engineers if you check their formal degrees; they are not even
environmental engineers, let alone theoretical or applied limnologists,
alas!!
(2)
The world’s leading expert in the
Bacteroides Prevotella species of MST is Prof. Dr. Kate Field of Oregon. Her
department was involved in the
(3)
Our original sampling
protocol as developed primarily by Prof. Dr. Pete Ogden III and by Dr. John
Underwood while he was still the only limnologist at the NS Environment Dept.
(to this day, he was never replaced when he resigned in 1990, alas! Darrell
Taylor is not a limnologist, he is a fisheries biologist like most biologists in
VIMP:-- I placed basic info on all
our protocols on the internet. The only thing I ask is if any one uses the info
there, to `cite it’ as any true scientist would. Many leading Governments and
agencies in the powerful
Subsequently, we greatly upgraded
the protocol when I made sure only professionals (not technicians) carried out
even the routine field sampling which we still do though we concentrate more in
the biological aspects (mostly Stage-III and Stage-IV protocols now, and about
to get involved in EDC’s) and do chemistry only as needed.
Very
Important:- Originally, I hoped to use the HRM’s `preliminary data’ when extant
as I stated at the Dalhousie University symposium in January 2008 where you were
present as well, but I am now finding the HRM’s data CANNOT BE RELIED UPON
totally for intricate biological analyses, alas!
Important PS: I don’t know who at
Jacques Whitford/Stantec wrote the so-called Functional Plan when you were
still at the HRM (your name appears there), since there were no names of the
authors, hence it is next to impossible to know the `credibility’ behind the
costly tax‑payer funded report!
Cheers,
(Clicking on the underlined words
will launch the relevant web pages)
Shalom M.
Mandaville Post-Grad Dip.,
“Narrative on Water Quality”;
“Our sampling
protocols, in brief”; and a 30-minute video on "Environmental Impact on
Water Courses” in WMV
format!
Chair, Soil & Water Conservation
Society of Metro Halifax-(Homepage), a multi-discipline
scientific/technical stakeholder group
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