PROVINCIAL GRAVEL PIT COMMITTEE IN KITCHENER ON MONDAY

The Aggregate Resources Act review will be at the Holiday Inn on Fairway Rd. Kitchener between 1:30 and 6 pm.this Monday. Keep clearly in mind that this review was promised by the Premier and his government. Also keep clearly in mind these are politicians not normal human beings. Nobody promised fair or honest changes to the Act, now did they? All three of the most contentious local gravel pits will not be toured by the committee raising the criticism of "cherry-picking". The proposed pits for Conestogo, Winterbourne and West Montrose are all being ignored in favour of rehabilitated gravel pits. Keri Martin-Vrbanac and Tony Dowling both are not pleased with this apparent avoiding of these local pits that have raised considerable public opposition. I expect that the Friends of the Winterbourne Valley group are also not pleased with the exclusion of the Jigs Hollow (Kuntz) Pit from the tour. Yesterday's Waterloo Region Record has this story in their Local section.


There was an article in the Waterloo Region Record on June 30/12 titled "Grand, Speed rivers to get some colour". This was followed by a colour photograph in yesterday's Record. Indeed the Grand River has been turned red by dye introduced for the purpose of seeing "...how much waste water two of the area's three water treatment plants can spew safely". I've said it before and I'll say it again. Science and hard data are wonderful but the weak area is then letting ignorant, self serving politicians make the decisions from it. They will subjectively take data that you and I can obviously see demands further resources towards sewage treatment and twist it into saying we can delay sewage plant upgrades another year while we cheerfully spend money on things like the Drayton Theatre. Afterall the Theatre may get us re-elected but sewage treatment upgrades won't.