I know someone who was involved with the installation of the water treatment plants in Southern British Columbia. The goal was to remove selenium and other impurities, but it seems that to date, the technology doesn't exist which can adequately remove the high levels of Selenium.
In Alberta though, the term "eco-terrorist" is still a rallying cry-to-arms in the Legislature and on the streets. I have no idea how to counter this myth, this us-against-them, which has been so successfully frothed up with an injection of foreign funded propaganda into this province. Science and sense, and the call to turn back to historic small-c conservative values (the strategy of the Alberta NDP) are no match.
I am looking forward to the Council of Canadians webinar on prairie water, Sovereignty, Scarcity and Conservation on Wednesday, and to reading Robert Macfarlane's 'Is a River Alive?' But as the wildfire evacuation warnings roll in on my phone and the smoke and the spin wafts over my province, I am not hopeful of change. Change my mind. Please.
As a downstream water drinker, my question is how is our municipal drinking water going to be made safe to drink? I think we should be asking our local councils this question, and also who is responsible to monitor it for public safey given the ability for it to bioaccumulate in humans as well as fish?
I know someone who was involved with the installation of the water treatment plants in Southern British Columbia. The goal was to remove selenium and other impurities, but it seems that to date, the technology doesn't exist which can adequately remove the high levels of Selenium.
In Alberta though, the term "eco-terrorist" is still a rallying cry-to-arms in the Legislature and on the streets. I have no idea how to counter this myth, this us-against-them, which has been so successfully frothed up with an injection of foreign funded propaganda into this province. Science and sense, and the call to turn back to historic small-c conservative values (the strategy of the Alberta NDP) are no match.
I am looking forward to the Council of Canadians webinar on prairie water, Sovereignty, Scarcity and Conservation on Wednesday, and to reading Robert Macfarlane's 'Is a River Alive?' But as the wildfire evacuation warnings roll in on my phone and the smoke and the spin wafts over my province, I am not hopeful of change. Change my mind. Please.
As a downstream water drinker, my question is how is our municipal drinking water going to be made safe to drink? I think we should be asking our local councils this question, and also who is responsible to monitor it for public safey given the ability for it to bioaccumulate in humans as well as fish?