NL-Outsidethebox [confederation]

People are as much a form of buisness and industry as Corporations are.

Sign of the changing times with over 6,446,131,400 billion people living on this small marble of blue. It’s time to wake up to the reality that natural resources aren’t going to be there forever and start planning for the future.


No longer should we allow sprawling communities that pop up haphazardly.
Every community should have a plan in place where by all of the infrastructure has to be installed and included in the price of the lots being sold. You say this infrastructure plan is already in place. Yes for the cities and some small towns, but is there really an infrastructure in place where by you plan for the future? Even if a town doesn’t have a lagoon or sewage treatment plant shouldn’t the funds be collected for future public works? Bare minimum all towns should have the water main pipes run from communal wells wherever feasible. Think of the cost savings by using the combined monetary resources of all of the inhabitants of an existing or planned community subdivision?

Insurance breaks from having Fire hydrants connected to a communal well.
Hell of a lot easier to chlorinate communal wells and monitor their safety than it is individual household wells should a problem arise.

No just because you live 100 miles from your nearest neighbour you shouldn’t have to pay into the future public works fund as apart of buying land.

I find it very disturbing the lack of planning or enforced planning by Municipalities, Provincial and Federal governments. Seeing new subdivisions being built with each and every house hold putting in separate wells. Not to mention the health risks and the abuse of the water table by these individual owners by filling swimming pools from private wells. Sure it may be a private well but we are all siphoning from the same water table or artesian vein under the ground. Just the cost benefits of a central well hooked to a water main would have to be substantial. Bare minimum one or two wells would pay for the water main and as long as you have the hole you should plan for the future and install the piping for sewer to be hooked up at a future date. Surely a lagoon has to be more cost effective than individual septic tanks. IMHO it’s just a lack of foresight and community minded ness brought on by the lax laws surrounding development by our municipal, provincial and federal governments. Unwillingness to give back tax money collected on our behalf to better our country on a community basis. Better to spend the money on keeping the country together in the ad campaign scandal.

I sympathize with our politicians I wouldn’t want to be the one to let the country fall to pieces either. But at what cost are you willing to abuse the people’s tax dollars to save your personal legacy?

Funding for these planned communities should be a cost shared affair from our combined collected taxes. Yes that’s right our taxes.

I remember when I was in Alberta they had this LIT Land Improvement Tax. I had to pay, it wasn’t forever just until the sidewalks water sewer or what ever were paid for. Now this was planning/collection in hind sight, all of the new subdivisions had these public works costs included in the land/lot prices.

Then there are the cabins surrounding our beautiful lakes and rivers with each and every cabin having a septic tank dumping into the ground not more than 100 feet from the water. I say make it a law that anybody living within ? feet of water have a sewage septic system rather they should be forced to have composting toilets and only grey water into their septic systems if not a central lagoon. It is well within fiscal limits and the technology is there so enforce the protection of our water for future generations.


Here are some links to the new composting toilets.

http://store.yahoo.com/envirolet-ca/index.html
www.sun-mar.com/
www.compostingtoilet.org
www.envirolet.com/

These toilets are available today at most hardware stores in the range of 1000$ very economically feasible IMHO to protect our water for present and future generations. Did we learn nothing from Walkerton? If they were to legislated for use in dwellings in and around water I’m sure the price would come down as long as the demand isn’t to sudden.

If you agree contact your government representative demanding an end to poor planning and protection of OUR environment.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb/house/members/CurrentMemberList.asp?Language=E&Parl=38&Ses=1&Sect=hoccur&Order=PersonOfficialLastName

Wasn’t the reason for confederation “Together we stand divided we fall”?