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Environment committee It's all of the Great Lakes—99% is left from the retreat of the ice age, so it's a glacial deposit. One per cent is a renewable resource that's renewed by rainfall and snowfall precipitation.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee That's correct.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee That was what was originally designed and agreed upon, the speed bumps on the bottom of the St. Clair River. The IJC looked at this in their $17-million upper lakes study. They looked quickly at different options, and those options are described in their report on restoring Michi
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee I think that's a great idea because I know this farmer who started this down in Ohio said that it cost him a lot of money to switch over to get different types of equipment. He had to basically give up using the type of equipment he had been using. It took him several years bef
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee I think it is a fair characterization and I think there are communities, for instance around Lake Simcoe, where they have started to work with the farmers, and they're a unique group. You need to bring them on board. You can't just impose regulations on them if they're not going
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee Yes, I would add to that. There are better farming practices that need to be encouraged by working with the farming community. I was at a binational meeting where the operator of a very large farm on the south side of Lake Erie described how he was leaving what was left of his cr
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee Oh, okay.
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter
Environment committee Good afternoon, honourable members of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. Thank you for taking the time today to look into the issues facing the Great Lakes. I know you've had previous speakers here, so we appreciate that. By way of background, I
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Mary Muter