DICHOTOMY BETWEEN NEED FOR RESEARCH AND HOW IT IS USED

Today's K-W Record has this story: "$600,000 will fund Grand River research". There was a time when I naively believed that tax money spent on environmental or pollution issues was all to the good. This article admits that "We've got to be one of the most studied watersheds in Canada". It also states that river managers such as the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) are using research to learn "...how much more and what kinds of human interference the river can endure.". Studies which give us information as to the effects of climate change, dams and land use policies are a good idea. What I am more interested in seeing in the Grand River is more cleanups of contaminated sites along the river such as Safety-Kleen, Canadian General Tower and even Chemtura (Uniroyal) which is five miles upstream (Canagagigue Creek). In other words all the studies in the world are useless if the politicians either ignore them or block their conclusions being implemented.