LETTERS: Styrofoam mussel buoys, gas prices and basic skills
Mussel buoys litter seashores
Now I really like an enormous, steaming bowl of contemporary P.E.I. mussels, like the remainder of us. However do you ever consider the poisonous air pollution that was produced for that bowl of yummy mussels? I do! As I see it each morning once I stroll my canine alongside the shores of P.E.I. Hundreds, (and sure, I stated ‘1000’s’) of discarded Styrofoam buoys, some intact, many crumbled past the power to select them up.
Within the spring in our Panmure Island neighbourhood, the shore is white with tiny particles of Styrofoam buoys. You’d suppose you’re at a seashore in Cancun. However you’re in lovely P.E.I., and also you’re trying on the air pollution of mussel fishing, air pollution that plagues our shores and is poisonous fodder for ocean wildlife and birds.
I ponder the irony of being the primary province to ban plastic grocery baggage, (sure, I used to be very proud and smug about this to my buddies in different provinces), but we enable tons of polystyrene to enter our lovely oceans yearly. I don’t get it!
In January there are literally thousands of these buoys that line our shore; the ice crushes them into powder and plenty of exit to sea. However what we’re left on the shore continues to be past stunning. And when urged, the fishers do a bandaid cleanup within the spring to make the shores vacationer prepared; it’s appreciated, but additionally too little, too late. And inside a number of weeks, the disgusting buoys come again once more like a brand new variant of Covid!
We discuss local weather change, reaching internet zero, shopping for electrical automobiles for our authorities, and many others. however we proceed to make use of this environmentally poisonous product in our mussel fishing. It doesn’t make sense to me. Does it to you? If not, please converse/write to your MLA about making a optimistic change, and requiring a available, non-breakable buoy be used on this trade. They discuss “phasing them out” however this transformation must occur shortly, earlier than tons extra polystyrene buoys are thrown into the P.E.I. waters.
Sharon Lucy Robson,
Panmure Island, P.E.I.
Painfully apparent to all however authorities
Nowadays, I can’t assist however really feel like the present interval of financial malaise affecting Islanders and the worldwide neighborhood alike is a kind of ‘I instructed you so’ moments. It shouldn’t take a Rhodes scholar or hotshot economist to know that the printing of cash with out restraints all the time results in disastrous penalties. Historical past reveals us as plain as day that that is the case, as does the rising inflation which is making life harder for a lot of of us who’ve already been struggling to make ends meet over the previous couple of years.
Just lately, I perused the letters to the editor part of The Guardian newspaper and was notably impressed by one (Islanders want decrease fuel costs, Could 10).
Callie Smith and Annie Duffy have hit the nail squarely on the top. These younger women (our province’s and nation’s future political and enterprise leaders) seem to have extra of a grip on actuality than our out-of-touch politicians, who as of late are performing extra like an elite ruling class than servants of the folks.
Ms. Smith and Ms. Duffy make the case, like anyone with any understanding of economics would, that reducing the value of a product nearly all the time ensures that the vendor goes to promote much more of stated product. Therefore more cash circulating within the economic system and extra tax {dollars} for presidency. In different, phrases a win-win state of affairs for everyone.
As a result of pandemic, Prince Edward Island has seen little in the way in which of tourism over the previous three years. Whereas Premier Dennis King anticipates over 1,000,000 vacationers to go to our lovely little island this summer time, if fuel costs proceed to climb upwards, our hopes for a barn-burner season could also be dashed as soon as once more.
Canada has the world’s third largest oil and fuel reserves. It is time to cease being depending on international oil and change into fully power impartial. Seeing younger youngsters and youngsters bringing politicians to job for his or her follies and failed insurance policies offers me hope that we should still be in retailer for a vibrant future.
The present world financial state of affairs and burgeoning power disaster is turning into so dire even a 3rd grader can see and perceive it. Why cannot our legislators?
Chris McGarry,
Belfast, P.E.I.
Missing fundamental expertise
Once I learn the writeup (Lacking fundamental expertise, Could 12), I used to be completely shocked. By junior excessive, some children can’t learn and write cursive, don’t have correct telephone etiquette and don’t know the right way to write, deal with and publish a letter. What?! Then once I learn a veteran trainer, with 31 years underneath her belt whose taught kindergarten to Grade 8 in Ontario who’s now retired on P.E.I., say that when educating she seen missing expertise in phonics, printing, handwriting, fundamental math, and many others. it’s gotten so unhealthy that with out their telephones they’ll’t even learn a clock, are you kidding me?! Pondering that we’re elevating a era like this boggles my thoughts.
Evan Larter,
Charlottetown, P.E.I.
