"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Tuesday 27 September 2011

A Challenge

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "At This Time Of The Year":

On matters of engineering, I'd certainly take the opinion of someone who has an engineering degree over that of a career politician whose credentials include being a stay-at-home mother.

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Even when the engineer recommends  a treatment system costing  $800Ks  to  remove salt dissolved in water that  wasn't  confirmed to be there in the first place?

What exactly do you have against a mother who stays at home to take care of her children?

What are your reservations about a person who has been involved in  town business over a span of forty-four years?

When a person  has enjoyed the confidence and trust of the community sufficient to have been elected eleven times , once as Reeve and County Councillor and twice as Mayor and Regional Councilllor; at what point, is such a person  deemed to qualify to be well-versed in what he or she does?

At what point does that add up to an ability to recognise a lack of logic where there is none?

We are not talking about designing a bridge here?

We are talking about the basic principle that salt dissolves in water and unless  the water evaporates,
salt cannot be removed.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Evelyn:

What does the system actually consist of? If in excess of $120,000 was spent on its design and the capital cost is likely to exceed $800,000 there must be something to show for all of this.

Or is it just a big parking lot whose perimeter is contained so that the dumped snow will simply melt, the resulting water will evaporate, leaving leaving behind a mixture of salt and other scum? And how will one separate the salt from the scum?

I have yet to have determined for me to any degree of satisfaction whether this matter is one mandated by the Ministry of the Environment or is an option for municipalities to consider.

Can you please do this.