Everything who thinks it would be cool to have your favorite wilderness lake turned into a toxic waste Technorati Tags: taunted by waters, toxic dump sites, please raise your hand.
OK. You can go.
The rest of you might find this next bewildering: From Taunted by Waters:
Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites – reports CBC News, which claims to have details of 16 Canadian lakes that are to be “officially but quietly” – love that bit – “reclassified as toxic dump sites for the mines. The lakes include prime wilderness fishing lakes from British Columbia to Newfoundland.”
Sure, Singlebarbed might enjoy fishing a glow-in-the-dark lake, but the rest of us are probably wondering exactly how you “reclassify” a wilderness lake as a toxic dump site.
Then again, if there’s enough money in it, a politician can usually be bought found to handle the paperwork on almost anything.
See you fishing a toxic dump site, Tom Chandler.
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Would a a glow-in-the-dark lake negate the need for glow-in-the-dark flies? This actually could save us fly tiers some money on glow-in-the-dark materials.
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The key question is this: does a three-headed fish count as one fish or three?
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Hi Tom,
I caught your post about Canadian lakes being turned into dumps and I
thought I’d drop you a line. My name is Thom Duggan and I’m one of the many Canadians working to end this backward plan. So, I just wanted to say hi and thank you, for one.
One of the ways we’re going to be trying to keep Canadians involved
and informed on this issue is though the blogging circles in Canada.
I’d like it if you’d agree to join our “blogcorps”. It’s mostly just a
special list that we’d keep of bloggers, like yourself, who would like updates and alerts about the issue from time to time (no
coverage-obligation, of course). Some bloggers have signaled that they want to get involved more deeply in the campaign, and that’s great too.
If you’d like some background information even now on the issue, I can send you a few things. Or if you’d like to get in touch with someone from the campaign, either nationally or in your general area, we’ll be able to do that stuff, too (we have a webpage coming soon that will
bring local citizens, bloggers, scientists, and activists
together…more on that later).
We’ve been blown away by the response online; thanks for being a part of that. Would you like to receive updates from us on this in the future?
Thom Duggan
Coalition to Stop Lake Dumping
thom.duggan [at] gmail
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Sure. Love to be on the list. Use tom.chandler [at] gmail.com
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