{"id":796,"date":"2011-09-04T09:24:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T12:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/?p=796"},"modified":"2011-09-04T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T12:24:20","slug":"lake-george-trepa-supports-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Lake George &#8211; TREPA supports town"},"content":{"rendered":"<address><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\">The following letter was sent to the Ministers of the Environment and Natural Resources in support of the Town of \u00a0Yarmouth request for a meeting concerning \u00a0potential for mining in the Lake George Watershed, Yarmouth&#8217;s drinking water supply.<\/span><\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>Date:\u00a0 September 4, 2011<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0File No: 11-063<\/address>\n<p>\u00a0Dear Messrs. Belliveau and Parker:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0We support the concerns of Town of Yarmouth regarding the security of the town\u2019s water supply, and the Mayor\u2019s June 9 request for a meeting with you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Lake George is the water supply for the Town of Yarmouth and part of the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0We would like to draw your attention to the Lake George Watershed Protected Water Area Regulations, made under Section 106 of the\u00a0<em>Environment Act,\u00a0<\/em>S.N.S. 1994-95, c. 1; N.S. Reg. 197\/2006 (October 16, 2006).\u00a0 Clause 15 states \u201cNo person is permitted to extract peat, gravel, rock, minerals, aggregate materials, top soil or any non-renewable resources within the Protected Water Area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>We are aware of the mining exploration licence granted to Greenlight Resources for field exploration\u00a0 on the \u201cBrazil Lake Lithium and Rare Metal Property.\u201d\u00a0 We wish to draw to your attention that\u00a0<strong>the potential mine area overlaps the Lake George Watershed Protected Water Area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>In light of this, (a) licence notwithstanding, any extraction within the Protected Water Area would violate the regulation in question, (b) we feel that the Town should have been consulted before this licence was issued, and (c)\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>considering the regulation and the importance of protecting a public water supply, we recommend that extraction of any sort should be expressly forbidden within the Lake George Watershed Protected Water Area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0There should be<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>no<\/strong>\u00a0risk to a public water supply from a private enterprise, and the only way to assure this, in this case, is to follow the above regulation, with regard to actual mining operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0We trust that you will assure same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following letter was sent to the Ministers of the Environment and Natural Resources in support of the Town of \u00a0Yarmouth request for a meeting concerning \u00a0potential for mining in the Lake George Watershed, Yarmouth&#8217;s drinking water supply. \u00a0 Date:\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/?p=796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}