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MidlandToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter served as a deputation to Tiny council earlier this week.
Ensuring that Tiny Township is well prepared to deal with pending, major environmental issues is just one of the many important responsibilities that our public managers are tasked with. Unpredictable, yet often inevitable, ecological disasters such as forest fires, massive shoreline alterations, invasive species and pest outbreaks, as well as weather extremes, due to climate change, require mitigative and preventative planning.
Interference of this preparedness by spending tens of millions of dollars, over decades, to build an unnecessary administrative centre is environmentally irresponsible.
Planning and funding for the immediate future is needed for green initiatives and catastrophic environmental problems as they manifest themselves. Please generously support water stewardship, waste and storm water treatment, source water protection, aggregate extraction limits, shoreline protection and the encouragement of tree planting and wildlife habitat enhancement.
The vast majority of voting Tiny Township taxpayers live here because of our shared and stunningly beautiful peninsula that juts out into the World Heritage Georgian Bay. Immerse yourselves in our magnificent local environment. You will quickly sense it in your bird and butterfly interactions, your deer and fox glimpses and personal discoveries of rare and endangered wildflowers.
Nature does not have a voice here, please listen to ours. Imagine the incredible impact of even $5 million of the proposed $50-million building budget going to environmental issues instead.
yours,
Paul D. Bell
Tiny
