In this day and age we are trying to clean up the environment not pollute. I don’t know why anyone would even think of dumping waste water into a river. So many human and wildlife are supported by this river. The Goulais River residents depend on clean unpolluted water.
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I’m concerned about whether the Assimilative Capacity Study adequately considered the existing Permit to Take Water. Reference ERO Posting: 019‑6965.
In support of protecting the Goulais River.
There is and endangered species in the river.
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My intent in providing these comments is not to oppose development in principle, but to ensure that the application before the Ministry is complete, technically defensible, and sufficiently protective of the receiving environment, particularly under conservative and worst-case conditions.
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I am writing due to the deep concerns that I have for the proposed inadequate water treatment system that the Searchmont Ski Hill is trying to build. I have lived in the beautiful community of Goulais River for the last 10 years.
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Each year, the Goulais River floods (at least once - usually in spring - sometimes in fall, too). The floodwaters cover many of the yards of homes and camps - and sometimes the waters breach the actual property dwellings. My question is two-fold:
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Please keep our beautiful Goulais River safe, for all animals and people. Also connects to lake superior which is important to the world and all the people that live in this area.
You don't want to cause sickness to the people or animals?
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"The leak went undetected for longer than it should have, and that was a huge training moment for us as snow-makers...", quoted from a Sootoday.com article in relation to an aging piece of infrastructure that burst at the ski hill.
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Where definitions have changed in respect to the creation of Bill 5-"habitat" and "harass" and the government does not need to develop recovery products- it is imperative that the Environmental Impact Study and Species at Risk study have been completed prior to this (final) decision.
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Searchmont creates artificial snow. Unbeknownst to most people, it is (also) hazardous to human health- from those skiing in it, to those employees handling it, and equally devastating to the river (biodiversity).
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I do not think that enough community consultation has been done, I do not believe that indigenous ways of going and doing and the consultation of indigenous people of this territory have been heard, search mod already has an environmental disaster at the Old Mill that no one has been accountable for
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I have serious concerns about this proposal and feel that there is great potential for environmental harm if Searchmont Resort is granted approval to build a sewage treatment facility that discharges into the Goulais River. My questions are below.
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The Goulais River is an important part of this area and community. My observations from the last three years of living next to the river is that it is a shallow river with seasonal change of the water levels.
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The goulais river is a ecological hot spot along superiors east shore it has formed over the years the largest delta complex on the lake it's a sponing ground for the criticality endangered freshwater sturgeon and is provincial renowned for walleye bass northern pike and northern muskie fishing, mu
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I think that the all parties involved in this proposal should review all the rules in place before any sort of permit is issued. It seems the MOE is ignoring their own rules that they have put in place, and have really dropped the ball on this in my opinion.
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This should not happen we do not need sewage going on the river these people that owns the resort is just wanting to line there pockets they don,t care what it going to do to the river and the wild life
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