… Abrahams said that the outfall extends 815 metres (2,700 feet) offshore with two distinct high density polyethylene lines (HDPE), which was installed by Ward Drilling Inc., with sub–contractor Marenco Marine Ltd. One 8-inch and one 12-inch lines have been installed, with both of them capable of taking the entire flow from the plant individually…. Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Wilfred Abrahams
A recent discussion on another blog explained the threat to the environment of piping sewerage into the sea. Successive governments in their wisdom never allocated the resources to implement a tertiary treatment process as part of a relevant waste management system. An irony for the blogmaster is that the Cabinet now includes a Minister of the Blue Economy, another for the Environment and let us not forget Water Resources.
The following comments (in two parts) were shared by Dr. Robert Lucas, PH.D., CFS, Biotechnologist with the BU family in response to the question – what is the significance of a build up of phosphates and nitrates at the point of discharge in causing an algae bloom?
– David, Blogmaster
Comment #1
It is called eutrophication and is currently occurring off the south coast of Barbados where the escaping sewerage is being pumped into the sea. At the point of discharge there is a build up of phosphates and nitrates which cause an algae bloom that results in depletion of the oxygen content of the seawater. This creates a de facto desert in the sea. Halophilic anaerobic microorganisms predominate.
Comment #2
Nitrogen and phosphates occur in the foods humans ingest, Unused nitrates and phosphates are excreted into faecal matter. Nitrates and phosphates are soluble and are therefore easily dissolved in water. Nitrates and phosphates are essential elements required for microbial growth (note phosphates and nitrates are present as salts of potassium and sodium, i.e. all the major elements required for plant growth are present).
Also present in sea water are trace elements such as magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, sulphur, iron, zinc and copper. In other words you have an ideal medium for plant growth. There is therefore an algal bloom which depletes the oxygen content of the area where the sewerage discharge occurs. That is at the end of the pipeline from which the discharge occurs and as far as the diffused elements reach by a process of osmosis. This area is a virtual desert, deficient in all plant and animal life (biota). Remember bacteria are actually members of the plant family,
Also present will be unicellular parasites (protozoa) which can cause amoebic dysentery (the lack of oxygen kills the non-cyst stage). The cysts stage constitute what are called survival bodies and ingesting such contaminated water results in illness.note anaerobic halophilic (salt tolerant) microbes are predominant in the affected area.
@ Miller
Why are you debating with @john2?
It is obvious he or she has shit for brains.
If part of the BLP Government or Bureaucracy no wonder the island is a failed state with plenty of dead weights.
Miller
How did the shit get in the streets?
You have already given the answer to that question – the lack of maintenance.
Hugh Sealy also broke down what happened with the break down of the process and the cause it had down stream.
Look!!!!
If the South coast plant was a tertiary treatment plant and you had the same lack of maintenance/ break of equipment (as mentioned by H. Sealy, you may not have had the sewage leak in the streets OR that leak may just have been delayed.
Why?
Bacause with the primary process was so much frigged up they would have been absolutely NO TERTARY PROCESS.
You cannot have tertiary treatment without first primary and the secondary! We were having NO primary treatmeant – only bypass.
They may have been very limited secondary processing but there would have been a lot of clogging of and maybe break down of equipment at this phase.
Eventually everything would have had to be sent to the outfall as was being done and we know the results.
Deside that we would probably also have to put up was the type of odour that used to come from the Bridgetown plant when it has a problem.
I am not against tertiary treatment ( I keep saying that).
If you are so concerned about the shit in the sea being an environmental problem then I suggest you and the other of you view can arrange with government to finance the tertiary treatment plant.
IMO at this time it would be a waste of my and other tax payer money to finance a tertiary plant.
While you are at it there were plans for over forty years to build a plant on the west coast – you can also finance that one.
You can all finance the hooking up of all the building in Barbados to a sewerage system, especially in the heavily populated areas, because the shit going into the ground should be a threat to our drinking water supply, plant with long etc , as it is with the marine environment. Or don’t you care about them?
What I am try to point out is that we finance thing when we can.
There are plans for the west coast but we cannot yet finance it. it is not critical so they have put it off use the money in other areas.
@ john2 July 21, 2019 1:21 PM
“While you are at it there were plans for over forty years to build a plant on the west coast – you can also finance that one.
You can all finance the hooking up of all the building in Barbados to a sewerage system, especially in the heavily populated areas, because the shit going into the ground should be a threat to our drinking water supply, plant with long etc , as it is with the marine environment. Or don’t you care about them?”
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We cannot fault you for your now revised path to environmental enlightenment.
But if a country currently experiencing financial nightmares can think of finding $3 billion to finance the construction of a hotel corridor right along the same south, south-west coast with an unreliable and broken secondary sewerage system to ‘service’ it, why can’t its leaders think 30 years into the future where the average traveler would be most environmentally-conscious beach lover?
The question to be asked is why make the same mistake of being penny wise and pound foolish as clearly demonstrated by the national and international embarrassment caused by the south coast sewerage fiasco?
Isn’t it possible that the amount of money recently spent in trying to correct the operational management ‘wrongs’ of both sewerage systems in order to save the country’s sole breadwinner from financial starvation and its international image as an upscale safe destination for sun lovers could have been avoided by visionary planning, ‘proactive’ decision-making and a schedule of proper maintenance, a skill acquired by the 7th standard educated men and women of 50 years ago?
Why not bite the financial bullet up front and make the west coast a fully-fledged tertiary plant unless you would prefer to put an outfall a few metres off the Sandy Lane hotel to turn its beach and maritime surroundings into a South Coast one-star shite bucket hotel?
The miller supports the position that no modern housing development or upgrades should be approved unless environmentally-sound human waste disposal facilities and practices are put in place to avoid the further contamination of the country’s underground water network which eventually find their way to polluting the coral reefs with their millions of litres of bleach and other household cleaning chemicals acting as liquid toxic soaps.
Miller
You are coming with more and more shit.
Who said the “hotel corridor” is going to be finance by government?
I put it to you that if it going to be finance by government then it will be waiting just as long as the west coast plant.
Miller Miller Miller
You seem to be an educated person but yet you allow yourself to spew foolishness about government financing a $3B hotel corridor.
Miller, please man, please use your head and stop embarrassing youself.
The $3 billion would not be finance by government (the tax payers) but by private investors like Butch at Sandals, Maloney at Hyatts, those at Blue horizon , those at four seasons etc!
It is proven that the amount of money spent to correct the problems at both sewerage systems could have been avoided IF THAT MONEY WAS SPENT UP FRONT ON A PROPER MAINTENANCE/PREVENTATIVE MATENANCE PROGRAM.
Spending that money up front would have also have stop you from spewing so much shite. Your ass would now be as quiets as you were before the south coast sewer leak (even though the shit would have still have been being pumped off into Needham Point)!
Miller
It is not 100% necessary to hook up all hotels in that corridor to the sewage treatment plants.
Hook them up as an emergency precaution….yes!
But hotels can also be built with their little sewage treatment/package plants and reuse the effluent for toilet flushing and limited irrigation.
I am not 100% sure but I think Sandy lane may have its own plant and Sam Lords might have had one at some point.
@John 2
What about redundancy: contingency?
@ John2 July 21, 2019 2:53 PM
“Miller, please man, please use your head and stop embarrassing youself.
The $3 billion would not be finance by government (the tax payers) but by private investors like Butch at Sandals, Maloney at Hyatts, those at Blue horizon , those at four seasons etc!”
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Forget about the ad hominems as bait to catch red herrings!
Let’s talk ‘real’ money aka finance?
Of course with the country so broke financially and unable to pay its creditors cannot find even $3 million to invest in garbage trucks or buses far less $3 billion in a concrete strip of depravity.
Where would the likes of Maloney get the money from to finance the construction of some imaginary Hyatt for US$ 100 million if not from the same source he used to pay for the construction of Coverley, Valerie and the Grotto?
Are you aware that every investment dollar (capex) has about an 80% forex component?
If the money is coming from foreign investors like Butch of Paradise disaster with loads of ‘suspect’ dosh to risk in a sunset industry in Barbados, well that’s fine.
But you might be just right about Maloney with his millions stashed away in foreign accounts which even the Panama-man papers cannot reveal to attract the attention of the Barbados Central Bank when some Bajans have been waiting years to have simple honest foreign currency-holding accounts approved.
Here is the deal as a peace offering to put your intellectual carcass to rest:
Get the Four Seasons project off its death bed by breathing a new lease of life into it and then the hapless government can talk about some $3 billion hotel corridor.
Miller
The West Coast plant may very well turn out to be a tertiary plant. But as of now we cannot to build or borrow to build it so all the negative environmental impact, cause not have sewage treatment in that area, will have to continue a lot longer.
We cannot bite the financial bullet to please all environmentalists ! That would be not only look for finance to build but also to maintain 3 tertiary plants.
We cannot financial afford one!
David
For what? I am not with you there – may have moved on and you are taking me back .
Miller
There you go again.
Forget I use Maloney or Butch names. I was just trying to point that the $3B would be coming from private investors instead of government.
Thruth is, its a possibility that both of them never invest a cent in that corridor.
@ john2 July 21, 2019 3:28 PM
“We cannot bite the financial bullet to please all environmentalists ! That would be not only look for finance to build but also to maintain 3 tertiary plants.
We cannot financial afford one!”
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Area you aware that most reputable above-board international lending institutions have a set of lending criteria some of which must meet some well-recognized environmentally-sound benchmarks before approval?
So let Barbados keeping swimming in its own shit and see if Trump’s description of sh*thole doesn’t become another sobriquet for Bim.
You just cannot continue to promote Barbados as some tropical paradise demanding millions of dollars for a lot and then be stupidly unwilling to invest in infrastructure to protect the health and safety of both the guests and the natives engaged to fulfill their dreams.
Miller
We cannot demand money from any external source unless it is money owed to us.
You argument can be put to one of the same agencies that you are referring to – IDB – yet they saw it feasible to only finance the primary treatment as apposed to tertiary or even secondary treatment.
There are sewage spills or sewer overflow in the USA on a daily basis.
You can keep on with your demands for financing for the plant anyhow.
Any loans to finance your upgrade will cause a further increase in taxation. Increase taxation will cost the economy to contract more. The economy contracting more will keep us in the financial shit hole for much longer than is necessary.
You are really making me waste my time.
We invest in what is necessary when the economy is in contraction
We can afford to invest in other things (like further environmental protection) when the economy is growing and we have a way out of the financial shite hole.
What about this that you cannot understand?
@ john2 July 21, 2019 4:25 PM
“We invest in what is necessary when the economy is in contraction
We can afford to invest in other things (like further environmental protection) when the economy is growing and we have a way out of the financial shite hole.”
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You cannot find the money to keep your house clean and the toilet in good working condition in order to keep your foreign-currency customers satisfied but you have the money to import luxury vehicles- some of them duty and tax free to con men like the same Mal-money man- to drive through the same shite flowing on the make-over cart roads while enjoying the biggest big-mout drinks and imported stale water in bottles because you do not trust the one piped by the BWA from your pristine aquifers not yet fully contaminated by your broken secondary sewerage system.
@John 2
You do not understand the importance of contingency planning in an area that is planned for heavy concentration of sewage output in a water scare country where tertiary waste treatment would augment water supply in a water scare country. How long before external pressure force Barbados to stop dumping shit in the ocean? Anyway we are philosophical in different plains, we have already agreed to disagree. Carry on with Miller who is doing an excellent job to expose your narrow position.
I finish with you and your shite
All the transactional argument you bring an enlightened local and international public is moving rapidly to zero tolerance regarding environmental issues, in this case spewing raw shit in the ocean.
To ram home the point. Minister Wilfred Abrahams will have to defend his position that is on public record- Barbados must build a new sewage plant with tertiary level capability. The blogmaster, Miller and a few agreed. Its implementation is inevitable in these times:
@John 2
You do not understand the importance of contingency planning in an area that is planned for heavy concentration of sewage output in a water scare country where tertiary waste treatment would augment water supply in a water scare country. How long before external pressure force Barbados to stop dumping shit in the ocean? Anyway we are philosophical in different plains, we have already agreed to disagree. Carry on with Miller who is doing an excellent job to expose your narrow position.(Quote)
What is this in clear, simple English?
All the transactional argument you bring an enlightened local and international public is moving rapidly to zero tolerance regarding environmental issues, in this case spewing raw shit in the ocean.(Quote)
Is this a foreign language?
David
For the millionth time (and I do not know how to say this any other way).
I am not against tertiary sewage treatment!!!! At this point in time I agree with the shit being pumped into the sea.as was being done for the past years without and visual effects or degradation of the marine ecosystem
The planning to leave space for upgrade to tertiary treatment at both plant was excellent planning by the engineers who designed and built the plants. I say that because I know one day they will move on to tertiary treatment – IMO – NOW IS NOT THAT TIME .
You don’t move on from pit toilet and bucket bath and cannot afford to pay a water bill
If you cannot pay the water bill eventually the water will be cut off and you will end back up at where you started but with a toilet that you have to fill to flush.
Said that to say, as I said before (and came to fore on the south coast) If you cannot financially maintain a tertiary plant what you will end up with is the infrastructure of the plant, a loan to pay back/higher taxes and you will still end up having to pump the raw sewage into the sea.
I say continue to pump the sewage into the sea now – we cannot financially afford to upgraded at this time.
@ 2 john2 July 21, 2019 5:09 PM
“I finish with you and your shite…”
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It’s says a lot when a shitehound puts his tail between his legs and walks away with his head like Tom Dooley.
Barbados might no longer be a sparkling economic jewel in the English crown or the pearl of the Caribbean (some might even refer to her as a “failed state” or as an ‘old whore with lipstick still on the hook) but she still has a group of people of class concerned about her well-being and future sustainability.
And the continuing pumping of shite and dangerous man-made chemicals in the sea is not one up for negotiation.
David
The blog master and miller agree
The majority of bajans don’t give a shit if a tertiary plant is built or not , so long as the shit is not affecting them directly.
Also a majority of the will shout about the pain if more taxes is put on them to finance that plant – especially from those that do not live in the sewer areas.
Hal
Plain and simple, you are an ass! After the old man piece of shit I think that that you are the second biggest piece of shit in this blog and I stay away from both of you and appreciate the return favor.
You do not know what the hell I understand or not !
I do understand and appreciate the water from a tertiary plant can be reused
That why I stated that room for upgrade at both plants was excellent planning.
I also mentioned that hotels can use package plants and reuse their effluent for toilet flushing and limited (according to the level of treatment) irrigation.
If/when Barbados is ready to reuse its wastewater then tertiary treatment is the way to go… BUT.,,,that was not what this discussion was about.
HAL
My mistake. MY opinion of you still stands and no apology from me, just my acknowledgement of my mistake.
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/240845/bwa-begins-lakes-folly
I will bet that this non-potable water is effluent from secondary treatment!
Tell me again, why do we need tertiary treatment at this point in time?
Oh because we can afford it and it is the most advance stage of sewage treatment that some of us are aware of !
@ David
Primary treatment is an internationally accepted for of sewage treatment.
Barbados is pumping the effluent of a primary treatment plant into the sea off of Worthing (not raw sewage as you are trying to mislead the public)
I don’t expect you to understand the difference
@ John 2
I know the Bajan hysteria and anger, borne of semi-literacy. But plse read again. I do not deal in excreta.
John 2 science does not know everything about the enviroment and how it interacts with all forms of bacteria
So this notion that primary effluent would not cause any danger to any forms of life can be catagorized as in-conclusive
Presently the ocean is producing self eating bacteria a form of bacteria never heard of before
In my humble opinion any toxic waste pumped into the ocean would become deadly to all forms of life
HAL
I ALREADY SAW THE MISTAKE
MARIPOSA
Who said anything about primary effluent would not cause any danger to any form of life…….?
“Presently the ocean is producing self eating bacteria a form of bacteria never heard of before
In my humble opinion any toxic waste pumped into the ocean would become deadly to all forms of life”
HUHHHHH!!!???
@ john2 July 22, 2019 7:44 AM
“@ David
Primary treatment is an internationally accepted for of sewage treatment.
Barbados is pumping the effluent of a primary treatment plant into the sea off of Worthing (not raw sewage as you are trying to mislead the public)
I don’t expect you to understand the difference”
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What you are implying here is that the two ‘lead’ comments at the start of this blog made by the respected Dr. Robert Lucas are just a load of unscientific bullsh**t not even worth the number of keystrokes with which they were electronically penned.
It might be an internationally-accepted form of sewage treatment but is it ‘suited in the long term for a country which is woefully over-dependent on people visiting the island and tanning their pale skins on the sandy white beaches in exchange for foreign money which is the lifeblood of the Bajan consumerism driven economy.
You might be the type who would find it totally acceptable to leave your ‘skid marks’ for the next user to deal with; but just remember there are others who practise higher standards of hygiene both at the personal and public levels.
Well read carefully before becoming abusive.
HAL
MR FULLY LITERATE, again plain and simple GO TO HELL (and i am being nice here). I am not perfect or pretend to be even if I read carefully i am one of the semi-literates and my opinion of you still stand.
John2 keep supporting your premise
One day coming soon u would see the results
You like Mia belives in the sound bite “not bout here”
Miller
You can jump to any conclusion that you want. I
am really tired of you.
My comment to David was in relation to something he mention about Barbados being forced to stop pumping raw sewage into the sea.
The only countries that can/will force Barbados to do anything are the bigger/wealthier countries.
These are the same countries that Set the standards that are internationally accepted.
PRIMARY SEWAGE TREATMENT IS AN INTERNATIONALLY ACCEPTED FORM OF SEWAGE TREATMENT.
Is the above statement wrong?
You are so freaking wrong about what I think about Dr Lucus.
Dr Lucus analysis is spot on.
What you are not understanding is that he is saying that the contamination is mainly localized – that is it is in the immediated vicinity of the outfall (the point where the effluent comes out of the pipes and mixes with the sea water.
This is a known fact to anyone that study or have any immediate knowledge of marine outfalls.
@ john2 July 22, 2019 10:06 AM
Well flush, jack! Hope to see you exiting the outfall!
If you think that the millions of litres of partially processed sewage are going to remain within the confines of the mouth of the outfall then you ought to build yourself a pit toilet and raise bull frogs on sargassum seaweed for a living.
Now piss off, Johnny klat 2!
You are not fully literate. You read and failed to understand, a sign of semi-literacy. Your anger dismisses you as a serious debater. You are angry because people disagree with what you are saying and you have exhausted your arguments. It is a symptom of learning by rote and the frustrations of toddlers. I am not surprised you are an expert on sewage. Cool down and debate properly, silly man. Stick to ideas.
Miller
More and ore you are showing ur ignorance.
CONTAMINATION remains in the direct vicinity of the outfall
(OR are you now disputing what Dr lucus also said and is equating it to bullshit?)
The millions of gallons of INTERNATIONALLY ACCEPTED / “partially processed” is diluted, dispersed and carried away by off shore currents. ( as was stated by Engineer Hugh Sealy) – and is internanational standard for marine outfalls.
Or are you saying the studies / work don’t by the technocrats from ministry of health, overseas, and technocrats like Hugh sealy is also bullshit?
RE “Presently the ocean is producing self eating bacteria a form of bacteria never heard of before
In my humble opinion any toxic waste pumped into the ocean would become deadly to all forms of life”
HUHHHHH!!!???
HUHHHHHH INDEED!
THE BOVINE EXCREMENT PERVEYED ON BU BY ANGELA COLE FOR OVER TEN YEARS WILL VERY LIKELY PRODUCE self eating bacteria a form of bacteria never heard of before
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THE MIRTH INJECTED BY THE BRIMBLERS IN THE BU RUM SHOP
THIS NEW SPECIES OF BACTERIA MUST BE ARCHIVED IN MICROBIOLOGY JOURNALS AS angela cole species
MURDAH!
Comment #1
It is called eutrophication and is currently occurring off the south coast of Barbados where the escaping sewerage is being pumped into the sea. “At the point of discharge” there is a build up of phosphates and nitrates which cause an algae bloom that results in depletion of the oxygen content of the seawater. This creates a de facto desert in the sea. Halophilic anaerobic microorganisms predominate.
Also present in sea water are trace elements such as magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, sulphur, iron, zinc and copper. In other words you have an ideal medium for plant growth. There is therefore an algal bloom which depletes the oxygen content of “the area where the sewerage discharge occurs.” That is at the end of the pipeline from which the discharge occurs and as far as the diffused elements reach by a process of osmosis. This area is a virtual desert, deficient in all plant and animal life (biota). Remember bacteria are actually members of the plant family,
From reading Dr Lucas submission I would assume that he has or is close to the inspection (team) of the marine outfall.
Hal
Yes I am an expert in sewage that how I know that you are a big piece of shit.
@John 2
Defend you points and leave the shit at the door. We can disagree and at the same time learn from each other.
MARI – I haven’t forgotten you
“John2 keep supporting your premise
One day coming soon u would see the results
You like Mia belives in the sound bite “not bout here”
Mari what is the Premise that I am supporting?
That Barbados is not financially ready for tertiary sewage treatment and the shit should continue being pumped into the sea?
IF Barbados could run into some wealth (like Guyana), where we knew we can afford to pay all/most of our bill in a few years, I would be all for the up grades of both existing sewage plants and the building of the one on the west coast all tertiary treatment. And not to pleas no tourists either (as some in here is espousing) even if we had to depend on the same tourist after the wealth ran out.
I don’t know what about my position that you people cannot understand.
is it because I am using the word shit is upsetting to some of you?
If tomorrow Barbados could financially afford (without putting further economic strain on the population) to upgrade/build and maintain a tertiary treatment on the South Coast, I would be 100% in support of that venture.
Since it cannot, IMO at this time, they should continue with the INTERNATIONALLY ACCEPTED STANDARD of primary sewage treatment and discharging of the effluent from this process to the INTERNATIONAL STANDARD OUTFALL as was being done before
That sound better?
Defend you points and leave the shit at the door. We can disagree and at the same time learn from each other(Quote)
Brilliant. Good chairmanship.
Yes I am an expert in sewage that how I know that you are a big piece of shit.(Quote)
The mark of a good professional person is behaviour. That is why all professions have an ethical code. You are showing more about yourself than you intend. Argue the facts and not try to personalise it.
Sit down, take a sip of water and behave rationally. Don’t let the Bajan Condition show. A good professional person in any developed country would never behave in this way. Grow up.
Is my last submission wrong or so hard to understand?
Or should we rush now and upgrade/build the tertiary plant in 8 months because the minister said we can find the finance somewhere somehow. And there is a possibility that a few “environmental” tourist may abandon the island.
Thank god the majority of tourist are no “environmental” an will not react like some of you bajans who we did not hear a word from for about 15 – 20 years when the sewerage system was working without any major problems and the effluent was going into the sea.
Even when the effluent was coming up in the streets and messing up the place the tourist still came in record numbers.
I wonder why is that!
Hal
I am not a professional, not try to be one, never said I was one
I respect David as the blog master and will leave the shit at the door (although he did not say which shit he was referring to).
I don’t care on rh about you or your codes or your advice. As far as I am concerned you can take your codes, advice and anything else you have to say to me and stuff it up your outfall.
Again your uncontrollable anger is coming through. You started wrong, and have continued to spew bile. I know you are not professional, I can tell from your behaviour. I grew up in rum shops and know rum shop behaviour, which I dislike.
You, whoever you are, are showing off your real character. You can take a pig out of the sty, but it remains a pig. Maybe that is why you like sewers. Nom de plumes suit some people, they are like balaclavas on robbers.
@Hal
Just signed on and you provided me with two good laughs although I suspect you are quite serious.
“Sit down, take a sip of water and behave rationally. Don’t let the Bajan Condition show.”
and
“I know you are not professional, I can tell from your behaviour. I grew up in rum shops and know rum shop behaviour, which I dislike.”
Some people on this blog behave like ole wimmen wid lame foots.
The boys of BU behaving badly again so I am going straight to bed.
@ The fearmongers who want to waste money, in hard economic times, because the fear the lost of a few American tourist/$s
or that Uncle Sam and company will soon put pressure on us for treating and dumping our domestic sewage in an INTERNATIONALLY ACCPTED way.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/theres-poop-water-americas-dirtiest-070805467.html
July 22, 2019 12:06 PM
Again your uncontrollable anger is coming through. You started wrong, and have continued to spew bile. I know you are not professional, I can tell from your behaviour. “I grew up in rum shops” and know rum shop behaviour, which I dislike.
You, whoever you are, are showing off your real character. “You can take a pig out of the sty, but it remains a pig.” Maybe that is why you like sewers. Nom de plumes suit some people, they are like balaclavas on robbers.
Why can’t this discussion about the treatment of Bajan sewage be framed within the current administration’s policy framework of the “Blue Economy”?
Aren’t the green economy (land-based) and the blue economy (sea-based) twins from the same womb of policymaking?
The Bajan government just cannot promote the blue economy as the lifeboat of economic sustainability of a future ‘restructured’ Barbados while there is a ‘planned’ strategy to continue to dump human waste in the sea to turn things real ‘brown’ and the skins of beachcombers red from health-challenging rashes.
@Miller
The blogmaster mentioned we have three ministers with overlapping responsibilities for waste management. The structure sends a message that this government sees environmental as a big issue. Perhaps it is about image impression above substance.
Several scientists have repeatedly argued that the area’s cold water and fast flowing currents mean the wastewater is quickly diluted and produces no harmful effects.
Federal laws changed in 2012
However, federal regulations introduced in 2012 mean that the Capital Regional District, which includes Victoria, Saanich, and Esquimalt, B.C., have to have a treatment plant up and running by the end of 2020.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-sewage-treatment-plant-construction-regulations-1.5123974
It doesnt take rocket science to understand natures role in keeping the enviroment sae and sound
However what it takes ia a govt understanding that negatives that affect the envuroment cannot be cherry picked and hoisted before an unaware public for political gain sake
Here we have a govt who has jumped out if the starting without knowing how many furlongs the horse needs to go
The banning of plastic is a good example where this govr did not have alternatives for the public use
More hotels more ‘shit’ ..I guess all will be going into the sea
Miller
“The Bajan government just cannot promote the blue economy as the lifeboat of economic sustainability of a future ‘restructured’ Barbados while there is a ‘planned’ strategy to continue to dump human waste in the sea to turn things real ‘brown’ and the skins of beachcombers red from health-challenging rashes.”
They is no one from government that put forward a ‘planned’ strategy to continue dumping waste in the sea.
You need to stop putting out false information!
Both the Minister in charge and the PM (when she was opposition leader) spoke of upgrading the south coast plant.
David will tell you that the outfall at Worthing was/is only expected to be a temporary measure and that the minister would like to find funds to upgrade to tertiary in another 8months or that up grade should have been finished in another 8 months.
(I don’t see either of those scenarios happening).
It is commendable that you want to protect the marine environment but its your alternate facts that are pulling you down.
FACTS:
The government (both) was pumping sewage into the sea for over 15 yrs and thing never turned ‘brown'( not even for one day).
The skins of beachcombers never turned “red from health-challenging rashes” – even though you had millions of people in that sea over the years ( many of them repeated visitors/locals who would have been highly exposed).
Please stop rushing all over the place to justify you opinion. We got it……you would like to see the dumping stopped ASAP.
IT WILL HAPPEN – WHEN THE GOVERNMENT/ PEOPLE OF BARBADOS CAN AFFORD IT!
It was not the intention to make the blue economy the lifeboat in two years. That is a long plan, just like the hotel corridor, and by the time one or both comes to being, the practice that you are so much against may be long into history!