Re: Mountain View County urged to protect beaver habitat
I guess I need to add Karen Fahrlander to my heroes list. She is right on about how important beavers are to protecting our water resources as well as their role in fire prevention. Check it out in Van Tegham's book Heartwaters.
She also enforces my call to end the use of fresh water for hydraulic fracking which needs to be done. Apparently we’re facing drought in our most prolific food producing parts of this province and yet our government regulators continue to issue permits for hydraulic fracking.
All the oil and gas produced by fracking will not help us to survive once we run out of fresh potable water.
Unfortunately I don't have a lot of hope for her to achieve her goals of less wetlands water use in hydraulic fracking or dust reduction for our municipal and provincial governments are controlled by the oil and gas resource companies as was demonstrated by Mountain View County's forgiving oil companies failure to pay their owed back taxes and the provincial governments failure to make old companies clean up their abandoned well sites.
Saving beavers and stopping fresh water fracking should be an obvious win-win. However based of past experiences I suspect it’s actually going to be a lose-lose. Good luck to Ms. Fahrlander and the RDWA and their efforts.
Darrel Florence,
Cremona
