Re: Manitoba unveils new plan to save Lake Winnipeg, by Robert Arnason, June 3
It’s time that the welcome mat, initially rolled out by the (former Progressive Conservative premier Gary) Filmon government, be discarded and put in the dumpster, as it is very soiled.
Should the province want the hog factory industry to continue, and also to save our waters and Lake Winnipeg, sewage treatment facilities are necessary, as professor Gordon Goldsborough indicates.
A costly undertaking, yes, considering that the Lake Winnipeg watershed is very large.
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The industrial hog industry complains about being targets. They are absolutely right. The province knows there is a huge problem with the vast amounts of hog manure and its impact on our water sources. They initiated the Clean Environment Commission of 2007 to investigate.
However, as the government also wanted the industry to continue, it is my opinion that the marching orders were slanted to maintain the status quo.
I also feel that hearings, rather than meetings, without government influence, would have been more productive to address the causes that, once again, have resurfaced.
Then there is also the constipated situation of Lake Winnipeg that has yet to be addressed. Nobody, it seems, wants to go there, on that issue.
To all Manitoba residents: the waters of this province need your help in persuading the government to return to common sense and basics in manure application and a better way of raising hogs.
This industry is a meat exporting business. It is shameful that Manitobans and our water sources get all the waste and crap it produces, and that is what we are now trying to deal with.
John Fefchak,Virden, Man.
