“In 1871, shortly after joining confederation, Manitoba provincial legislation known as the Sanitary Act was passed with regard to controlling manure deposition along Manitoba’s rivers and streams. After several name changes and revisions, this legislation eventually became known as the Pollution of Streams Act in 1891, establishing a 50 foot buffer zone from the high water mark of any stream, within which any “filthy and impure matter,” namely manure, was not be deposited” unquote.
So here we are, nearly 150 years later and what has been accomplished …. In my estimation… nothing. Water, our most vulnerable and life resource is hopelessly being polluted with raw sewage and animal manure. There was no science back then, as there is today, and it makes one wonder how did that legislation come to be…Caring politicians back then, used “Plain Common Sense”… something that there is a shortage of in our modern world of to-day’s legislation. I have read many of the posted comments that were submitted by the public in regard to the Livestock Manure and Mortalities Management Regulation (LMMMR). The vast majority of people proclaimed their concerns for the safety of our waters and environment in Manitoba, and the welfare of pigs and how they are being manufactured in the Manitoba hog Industry.
http://www.gov.mb.ca/sd/eal/registries/5875lmmmrammendments/public_comments_index.pdf
In light of this, and the proposals in The Red Tape Reduction Act, it is my conclusion that…The provincial Progressive Conservative government has indeed bedded down with the Hog Industry; ignoring “that the relationship between a regulator and the regulated must never become one in which the regulator loses sight of the principle that it only regulates in the public interest and not in the interest of the regulated”. The horror and pollution from Factory Farms (re: letter writer Leonard Paramor. Rivers Banner, Jun. 23).
What Canada and Manitoba so desperately need is An Earth Justice Attorney to take factory barn hog producers and the province to court…on behalf of the public.
The stink and toxic pollution is the same in Manitoba from ILO's as the CAFO's in the United States.
