From the “McKenna in, sewage out” department comes this just unbelievably stupid claim from Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna via CBC. At issue is old infrastructure, not climate change. h/t to WUWT reader “Cam_S”.
The issue as reported by CBC:
Data provided to The Canadian Press recently showed over one trillion litres of raw sewage leaked into Canadian waterways between 2013 and 2017, including 215 billion litres in 2017 alone — a 10 per cent increase over 2013.
Environment officials attribute most the increase to more systems complying with reporting requirements. However Krystyn Tully, vice-president of the water advocacy organization Swim Drink Fish Canada, says only 159 of the 269 municipal systems that are required to report actually did in 2017.
“The compliance is so bad,” said Tully.
She says the actual amount of leaking raw sewage is probably much higher than what has been reported, given that 110 systems were unaccounted for in the 2017 data alone.
Tully said governments are hard pressed to prioritize the problem if they don’t know how much is actually leaking out of their systems.
But wait! There’s climate change to blame! Never let an opportunity go to waste!
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the government isn’t specifically looking at ways to improve reporting rates of municipalities but, if there is more to do, the federal government would consider it.
McKenna said Tuesday that climate change is expected to bring about more frequent storms, like the flash flood rainfall in Toronto a week ago that left the harbourfront waters covered in debris from the toilets of millions of Toronto residents.
“This is a real problem,” McKenna said.
Gosh, yes that’s it, climate change! Let’s issue a carbon tax to make the sewage system compliant. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
So you’d think a modern city like Toronto would have completely separate sewage and storm drain systems. Sadly, no, and this news article from last week reports:
Some of the debris Thursday came from downtown Toronto’s old plumbing system, which carries household waste and whatever gets swept through storm drains in the same pipes — pipes that overflowed Tuesday. Modern cities, and some of Toronto’s younger suburbs, are outfitted with separate sewer systems which segregate human waste and storm water, a setup which became standard in the 1950s and ’60s.
But wait! There’s more….MODELS can help gauge the climate change impact!
Most cities only report calculated data based on computer models of how much sewage is expected to leak when a certain amount of rain falls. Kingston, Ont., is the only city Tully is aware of that has monitors in pipes to measure exactly how much leaks and reports that data publicly immediately.
Oh, the uncertainty!
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I nominated Climate Barbie for the whatever it is award that Ken Haapala is collecting votes for.
I read up on her past climate mutterings. Yes, She’s as clueless as a plastic doll about climate science.
She’s the kind of woman who inspired blonde jokes (remember those?).
[Please do not insult blondes on this forum by comparing their reasonable replies in blonde jokes to such a politician … .mod]
The all-purpose whipping boy-“climate change” will eventually have names added to it as being responsible. How convenient, they will all be political enemies. It is also likely that some group, such as Jews will be blamed for the “climate change.”
Think I am joking? Think again. This scenario has been played out repeatedly throughout history. Blame your political enemies or some scapegoat for whatever “evil” is about , then persecute the hell out of them.
Time to wake up. We are in an era of creeping fascism. WW 2 was not the end of propaganda, it was a stepping stone to even worse to come. The big propaganda at the moment- “climate change” or “catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.”
The Romans blamed the Christians for everything bad in Rome & persecuted them for it! Nullius novus sub solice!
Leaking raw sewage.
Can anyone tell me what is a septic field?
Not the same thing.
The raw sewage has already had some treatment in the septic tank depending on how well designed and maintained it is.
The first was built in Exeter, UK in 1896 (65 ft x 18 ft x 7 ft to 7 ft 9 in)
To “coral reefs”
Brasilien swamp river geological times unseen coral reefs
https://www.google.at/search?client=ms-android-samsung&biw=360&bih=288&ei=qC11W4-NCMHcwALg5I0Q&q=Brasilien+swamp+river+coral+reefs+&oq=Brasilien+swamp+river+coral+reefs+&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
Only in Canada, eh? Sigh.
The good news is that the present federal government wll have to run the next election on the basis of an additional “carbon” tax.
There is a spot in Torbay in the South-West of UK, part of the English Riviera, called Thatcher’s Rock, there is/was a raw sewage outfall from the mainland opposite, around 100yards away or so, where many fishing boats professional & amateur gather to cast their nets for a rich haul!!!!
Government is telling its citizens that the failure of government to do its basic job is the fault of climate change. See “California wildfires.”
Amazing. Many cities in Canada dump raw sewage into the local waterways. But to make up for it we separate our trash into different piles before pickup.
Toronto will be adding a new trash bucket for lightly soiled toilet paper. Right now it creates an eyesore seeing it hung out to dry in peoples backyards. Much better than waving it in the air at the next leafs game.
Please tell me you are making that up.
Actually, this makes sense. A warmer world is a more human friendly world. A more human friendly world means more humans, which translates to more sewage. More sewage means more leaks. Obvious.
Maybe she’s just talking about the collective progressive shit-fit.
Even separating drain and sewage lines sometimes isn’t enough. Duluth Mn from day one build separate drains and sewage systems. But 100 years later ground water infuses into the leaky sewer lines, especially during big rain events. During heavy rains the sewage treatment plant got overwhelmed and had to dump raw sewage into the bay. So the EPA ordered them to spend a huge amount of money to build 4 or 5 gigantic concrete storage containers as buffers.
Somehow the money was found, the job got done, and the waters keep getting cleaner and cleaner. There is much to be proud about the USA.
CBC and the Canadian Press Climate Change articles are part of the leaks…
What do old men do about sewage leaks? … Depends.
Just do what Chicago did.
Dig a huge hole, and call it a tunnel (tunnel to where, one might ask).
It sounds better than a huge hole that can’t possibly hold the worst She can inflict upon us, but it should cut down on the beach closings when the effluent overflow needs to be released into the lake.
It keeps many basements drier and viaducts open, yet She can fill it in like an hour:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-deep-tunnel-swamped-20180307-story.html
She probably appreciates the effort.
Is our Enviro Minster just a complete idiot or goes she really understand the problem of Toronto’s waste water problem? Standard Liberal BS, yap yap yap, this person is just a talking head, just like the kid in the top chair. The Liberal elitist that run the party pull all the strings and they don’t do it for the benefit of Canadians