Fwd: York-Simcoe By-Election candidates call for federal funding to reduce Lake Simcoe’s phosphorus pollution
Lloyd Helferty
Dear RNUPP | Beaver Project team, (including Douglas Jack, Brad Bass @ EC)
Perhaps we should consider moving our "Beaver Project" a little bit North of Markham and the Rouge National Urban Park (RNUP)?
We could perhaps focus on implementing a project for the demonstration of a "3-D Polyculture / Permaculture forest" (with biochar-based soil remediation and other P-reduction systems / solutions) that will be able to help reduce Lake Simcoe’s phosphorus pollution.**
** Climate change and galloping urbanization bring along a major corollary issue: water scarcity and quality. By 2025, 2/3 of the world population will face water related problems and 1.8 billion will live in conditions of absolute water stress. And with the demographic explosion, 70% of the 10 billion world population will live in cities by 2050. The problem appears crystal clear: water catchments are not in cities but in rural areas.
- The Water-Soil-Carbon Nexus: Why Water Preservation Needs A Healthy Soil
It seems (see below) that ALL of the Political parties (locally in the York-Simcoe Riding) support "federal funding to reduce Lake Simcoe’s phosphorus pollution".
I would like to propose some sort of "Water Smart" and "Climate Smart" [landscape restoration] Demo project for Simcoe County.
CC also:
Jack Gibbons, Chair, Lake Simcoe Watch
and:
Jack Sorelle, who told me today about the "Lake Erie Bill of
Rights" that is on the ballot for Feb. 26. where he is (in Toledo,
Ohio)... which is leading to very significant [political] support
for action on "Cleaning up Lake Erie" as well.
Also, the timing might be right because just two days ago we had a BIG win when Ontario's Minister of Municipal Affairs, Steve Clark, announced that the Government of Ontario has decided to withdraw its proposal to allow developers to carve up the Greenbelt and the Oak Ridges Moraine and pollute Lake Simcoe (via Bill 66’s Schedule 10, which would have permitted municipal governments to pass "special bylaws" exempting new developments from the environmental protection rules in the Lake Simcoe Protection Act, the Greenbelt Act, the Clean Water Act, the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act and the Great Lakes Protection Act).
CC: Biochar-Ontario, Biochar-Remediation, CoSWoG, Charlene Day
(DDTO), John Bacher, Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society.
Author of Two Billion Trees and Counting.
P.S. I learned recently that Lake Simcoe used to be known as "Lac Toronto", as seen in a French map from the very early 1500's.
One of my colleagues from the Indigenous networks pointed this
out to me, saying that "for me, this is the kind of
misrepresentation that continues to create misinformation and
stereotype,"... "To give this proper insight we need to understand
first off that for nine thousand years the Wendat have lived here
and the word Tkaronto originates from a word
meaning Fishing Weir or Where Sticks Stand in the
Water or Meeting Place."
Regards,
Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist Principal, Biochar Consulting (Canada) System Leader and Sector Expert for the "Climate Smart" Platform & Project Development Director Energime University http://energimeuniversity.org/ A member of The Energime Family of Companies "Education, training, knowledge and empowerment for responsible environmental management and resource sustainability." Not-for-profit Tax Exempt Status: 501(3C) DLN 17053330310044 lloydh...@energime.com 48 Suncrest Blvd, Thornhill, ON, Canada 905-707-8754 Skype: lloyd.helferty -- Executive Director Resilient World Institute (RWI) http://rwinstitute.ca/ 5 Shields Court, Suite 108 Markham, Ontario, L3R 0G3 cell: 647-886-8754 -- Co-founder, CSF Consulting Group and Science for Peace (SfP) CoSWoG Climate Smart Food sub-Working Group (CSFWG) www.facebook.com/groups/climatesmartfood/ -- Founder, "Future Farming" group http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Future-Farming-4815612 -- Chair, Community Sustainability (CoSWoG), A working group of Science for Peace https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8413199 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/coswog -- Core Group team member, Drawdown Toronto & Richmond Hill http://www.unifytoronto.ca/dialogues.html -- Founder, Energime-Global Cooperation Day Turtle Island https://www.facebook.com/groups/EGCDTI/ -- President, Co-founder & CBI Liaison, Biochar-Ontario http://groups.google.com/group/biochar-ontario https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3329950 -- Manager, Biochar Offsets Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2446475 -- Advisory Committee Member, International Biochar Initiative (IBI) www.biochar-international.org -- Sustainable Biochar Expert, Passive Remediation Systems Ltd. (PRS) http://www.prsi.ca/leadership-team/ -- Steering Committee coordinator, Canadian Biochar Initiative (CBI) https://groups.google.com/d/forum/canadian-biochar-initiative http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1404717 -- Former Promotions Manager, Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network (CSAYN) https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=6756248 "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Willy Brandt
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| Subject: | York-Simcoe By-Election candidates call for federal funding to reduce Lake Simcoe’s phosphorus pollution |
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| Date: | Thu, 24 Jan 2019 01:22:46 +1100 |
| From: | Lake Simcoe Watch <> |
| Reply-To: | Ja...@lakesimcoewatch.ca |
| To: | Lloyd Helferty |
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Protect Lake Simcoe, not private developers No Images? Click here  Jan. 23, 2019 York-Simcoe By-Election candidates call for federal funding to reduce Lake Simcoe’s phosphorus pollutionThe Conservative (Scot Davidson), Liberal (Shaun Tanaka) and NDP (Jessa McLean) York-Simcoe federal by-election candidates are all calling for the Government of Canada to provide funding to help reduce Lake Simcoe’s phosphorus pollution by 50% by 2026. Scot Davidson and Shaun Tanaka also support federal funding to help ensure that by 2026, at least 40% of Lake Simcoe’s watershed consists of high-quality connected forests, wetlands and meadows. Jessa McLean supports the objective, but says she needs more details on how it might be achieved. Please pass this message on to your friends and neighbours. Lake Simcoe Watch is a joint initiative of AWARE Simcoe, the Innisfil District Association, the Lake Simcoe Association, the North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance, the South Lake Simcoe Naturalists, the STORM Coalition and the West Oro Ratepayers’ Association.
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