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Select dealings with the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM)

(including its former municipal units)

May 19, 2011      

Contents:

• Overview of our dealings

• Select significant policies/reports of the HRM of special relevance in the ecological domain!

• Select media articles

• Watershed Boundaries and Advisory Groups:
  • A superb initiative of the Halifax Watershed Advisory Board (HWAB): "Recommendations for Monitoring Freshwater Quality to Assess Impact of Development in the Halifax Regional Municipality"
    • .... carried out in in collaboration with:
      • The Halifax Regional Municipality
      • Dalhousie University
      • Environment Canada, and
      • Nova Scotia Department of Environment

Overview

• Our select formal submissions to HRM, its previous municipal components, and to its committees.

• Examples of several requests received via email from the professional staff of HRM (the list is only a representative sample and we have received approximately 100 from the staff alone via emails as well as by phone; these do not cover scores of requests that we receive regularly from `electors' right across the HRM and elsewhere). They took multiple hundreds of professional hours to respond to for which even `symbolic honoraria' were not even offered although that is the norm in any scientific/professional domain!

• Strong invitation (2010) to the Province and the HRM!

• Critique on the HRM Water Quality Report of March 12, 2007.

• HRM's 2010 and 2009 synoptic lake data critique: October 19, 2010.

• Shallow lakes dominated with plants (e.g., many lakes in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour): October 08, 2010.

• Request investigation-Halifax Regional Municipality- Potential impingement on our Intellectual Property (IP).

• Important REQUEST to Environment & Sustainability Committee-LAKE SCIENCE all over HRM; December 08, 2010 but no response received to date!

• Miscellaneous complaints/statements w.r.t. HRM's modus operandi- addressed to Dr. Tony Blouin of Halifax Water; January 18, 2011.

• Our submission to the SEMO on “Protecting Our Lakes”: May 06, 2011  
  

Select significant policies/reports of the HRM of special relevance in the ecological domain

• HRM's 25 year Stormwater and Wastewater Forecast

• Water Resources Management Study (WRMS, 2003) of the HRM

• HRM's Regional Planning Process

• Councillor Jim Smith's concerns re lakes and salutations for his honesty

• Graceful admissions

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