Your Turn: Your Feedback On Water Levels, Food Pantries & New Jobs

There’s plenty of criticism about the International Joint Commission. After several years and millions of dollars of study, the IJC plans to do little to change the water levels on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

Here are some of your emails:

“The results…were a terrible waste of taxpayer’s money. Nothing has changed. They should be ashamed of the results!”

Darrell Burton

“I’m very disgusted. The IJC needs to reconsider and look at the broader picture and future of our beautiful waterways before they disappear completely and…our children have nothing in the future.”

Claude

“I own property on the river in Cape Vincent. The water levels need to be higher on the river or all over.”

Mark VandeViver

“I am appalled at the lack of consideration for those of us who live along the banks of the St. Lawrence River. We have suffered for several years with low water levels & it seems as if the IJC really doesn’t care that we have become nothing but a trench between the lakes and the ocean.”

Lois Langtry

“Last year the levels were so low wells were dangerously low or dried up altogether. If it’s caused by weather, that’s one thing. To have the levels so altered by controls is inexcusable.”

John A. Bang

Local food pantries are seeing a growing demand for assistance and more working people asking for help.

Here’s one message about that:

“While many of us are struggling to buy food, our taxes are going up to help bail out private industries and people who make poor borrowing decisions.”

Dawn Grundhofer

Source Bio-Plastics Inc., which manufactures biodegradable plastics, will join forces with Michelex Plastics in Massena and create at least 175 new jobs over the next three years. The company expects to receive many job applications from General Motors workers who will lose their jobs when the Massena Powertrain plant closes this year.

Here’s what a couple of you had to say:
“This is good news.”

Jane Wilson
Potsdam

“Last I knew, Michelex Plastics paid minimum wage. I don’t see how 175 jobs at $7 an hour could possibly help 300 - 400 people who are used to making $30 plus an hour.”

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See Diane Rutherford’s report:

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