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Abbotsford, B.C.
Canada
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Posted - 01/28/2012 : 07:10 AM
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It is shocking indeed, how can even the company make application. In a park yet ?
The province is considering an application for an environmental licence from Sun Gro for a smaller peat mine, at what is known as the Hay Point bog, within Hecla/Grindstone park. Ads placed by Manitoba Conservation in several Manitoba newspapers in mid-December said public comments on the application would be accepted until Jan. 16. The province has since extended the public consultation deadline to Feb. 3.
The new peat-mining licences -- particularly the one eyed for a provincial park adjacent to Lake Winnipeg -- has dismayed environmentalists.
Gaile Whelan Enns, director of Manitoba Wildlands, said the licences contravene the spirit -- if not the letter -- of the new Lake Winnipeg law. "Why are we mining in parks? Why would we want to do anything other than abide by the intent of the Save Lake Winnipeg Act?"
Her group believes the province should have bought some of the quarry leaseholders out.
Peatlands act as important water filters, reducing harmful nutrients that enter the lake. Peat bogs also serve as important carbon sinks, environmentalists say. Mining them releases both carbon and methane into the atmosphere.
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Parks are supposed to be natural reserves without any modification, this mining just sucks..
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Peat mining planned in Manitoba's Provincial Parks
