Public Forums On The Future Of The Great Lakes

[Spiel]

Public Forums on the Future of the Great Lakes

– November 30, December 5, 7

 

In Kingston, Windsor, Hamilton and Thunder Bay, Ontario

 

Pollution Probe and the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario are hosting a series of evening public forums to discuss the future of the Great Lakes.

 

The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, Gord Miller will provide brief comments on Great Lakes issues, and Pollution Probe's Water Program Director, Rick Findlay will discuss what a new vision for the Great Lakes could look like. These presentations will be followed by an opportunity for members of the public in attendance to ask questions and input their comments and ideas on the future of the Great Lakes.

 

These events are taking place in four centres across Ontario:

 

 

WINDSOR, Nov 30, 6:00-8:00 PM, 400 City Hall Square East bldg, Windsor

 

 

HAMILTON, Dec 5, 6:00-8:00 PM, Council Chambers, Hamilton City Hall, 71 Main St West, Hamilton

 

 

THUNDER BAY, Dec 7, 6:00-8:00 PM, Council Chambers, City Hall, 500 Donald St East, Thunder Bay

 

 

 

For more info contact: Rick Findlay, Director, Water Program, Pollution Probe, 613-237-3485, [email protected] or Dennis Draper, Office of the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, 416-325-0530, [email protected]

 

 

 

The Pollution Probe's Vision Statement can be found at: www.pollutionprobe.org/Reports/greatlakesvision.pdf.

[outdoorguy61]

I note that Kingston is listed but no date accompanys it. I would like to go to this, if it occurs when I am home at Christmas. I looked at the attachment, but did not see anything there relating to this.

 

outdoorguy61

Edited November 30, 2006 by outdoorguy61

[Spiel]

....Sorry Outdoorguy61. I thought I'd deleted all references to the Kingston meeting as it happened yesterday (Nov. 28th), my bad.

[cisco]

I wonder if this is a sneaky way for the Ontario Provincial gov't to claim it had "public consultation" in a possible move to shelve, and to convince US jurisdictions to shelve chinook stocking. After all, a goal stated in Polution Probe's position paper is "self-sustaining" species......

 

The forums do not appear to be located in cities where salmon enthusiasts and the attendent industry is located to easily go and voice their position.

 

Charter boat ass'ns and angling groups may want to have reps there with position papers of their own.

Edited December 1, 2006 by cisco