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Environment committee No, pollution is a factor.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee Pollution in places like Hamilton Harbour—that's very contaminated waters, obviously. Wetland plants cannot grow in that kind of habitat, and it ends up being a monoculture of one or two species that can thrive in polluted waters.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee I don't think I could give you an exact answer for that, because it depends on where you're sampling, and the Great Lakes are so huge. Also, the temperatures she was talking about were in one of these more shallow bays, so that's why it got up that high. We think that's also a co
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee That research has been done up on Lake Superior. They have extrapolated that down for Lakes Michigan and Huron and Georgian Bay, so to extrapolate is a way to estimate.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee Well, David just told you. It's the U.S. agency. We don't have any Canadian agency that's doing that kind of work.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee Climate change is here. It's here. We have clear evidence of it now. The report that's just been released makes it even more scary than we previously thought it was. In terms of its impact on the Great Lakes, obviously it's warming water temperatures. McMaster University's Dr.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee Of course, there's a role the federal government can play. We all need to be acting to reduce whatever impacts we can, whatever is contributing to climate change, obviously. Reducing greenhouse gas, that's a given, and being able to figure out how we can adjust to this in some wa
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee Absolutely. If you think, that's how the phosphorous was first identified as a major contributing factor to algae, and that is the setting within which those kinds of research projects can be carried out. We have no place else like that.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee I would just add that the whole question is whether there is adequate funding to actually implement the terms.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee Canada and U.S....?
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee That's correct.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee Right, and if you think about the water being lost down the St. Clair River, that is glacial deposit that's being lost down the St. Clair River due to the increased outflow.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee We are going to catch some, but no, we need to start to manage the Great Lakes much more responsibly than we are now. Canada doesn't even have a flow meter at a critical part in the St. Clair River, so we don't even really know what's happening there.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee The St. Clair River....
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee That's right. With that flow, they removed the rock cover. They removed a sand and gravel bar that acted as a natural weir to the outflow. They cut through that for navigation. They harvest it for sand and gravel. It has been 100 years of human alterations. There is an opportun
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter