Changes to the Endangered…

Changes to the Endangered Species Act will have negative consequences to our natural resources. Municipalities demanding less strict guidelines for development proposals that impact wetlands are being short sighted.

Those areas are important for not only animal habitat such as Blandings Turtles but also for humans!!! If we cannot look at the important of species diversity than let’s focus on what most people look at first - human safety and money!

We require the Natural attenuation that Provincially Significant Wetlands (PSWs) provide for filtration of water that eventually feed into our rivers, streams and lakes. This is important for our drinking water - which includes the quality and presence of important minerals.

Another important aspect of PSWs is drainage - we attribute crazy amounts of rain and melt off which leads to flooding because of climate change - People - use your heads, when we pave, develop, dredge and alter natural drainage - the water has no where to go! This leads to increased damages to buildings, homes and municipal infrastructure (ie storm sewers, overflow of our waste water treatment facilities into our lakes and rivers) which as result leads to increased taxes - increase in rates for insurance policies - the list goes on.

Put your money and drinking water where your mouth is. Do not let these changes to the Endangered Species Act this will result in the loss of PSWs.