Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in Winnipeg entitled Holding
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Sewage treatment plant timeline remains unknown. 21 June. Wpg Sun Newspaper."Nitrogen and Phosphorus"
The city's manager of engineering services for water and waste has stated, "the city must avoid rushing to ensure the $795-million upgrade to remove "nitrogen and phosphorus" from the plant's effluent is done right the first time".
When did this change come about; or was he speaking without thinking? The removal of nitrogen was extremely controversial, during Mayor Katz time in office and the NDP government eventually relented to the pressures of the critics, not to make it compulsory at that time. What happened?
Yes, we all have heard that phrase many times.
The question that I ask is …Which scientist(s) are you placing your bet on?
Prof Eva Pip, a renown scientist in the field of different algal and the waters of winnipeg
highly recommended that removal of "nitrogen" along with phosphorus. The Province
agreed.
Prof. David Schindler, also a noted scientist, with the blessing of mayor Sam Katz, said
removal of nitrogen was not critically important during the initial phase, but could be considered
at a later time.
So much for science? In the end it all peculates down to The $$dollars and politics. The algal
problems in the waters of Lake Winnipeg need the best, but came in last.