Hello,
I am a life long resident of Saint John and of the city's North End.
I have used Rockwood Park on many occasions over my 60+ years.
I have walked and hiked all the trails and pathways in the park and I believe that the destruction of the park lies with projects such as this.
Already we have a distracting power line running through the middle of the park, breaking up the unspoiled wilderness feel of many trails.
Adding a pipeline to this space would not only cause more trees to be removed, but also require the digging of earth and removal of rock, and building or widening of access roads would further spoil the natural setting.
Rockwood park was created over 100 years ago for the enjoyment of nature by all residents.
I ask you to consider the future of North America's largest inner-city park when you consider running a pipeline through the heart of it, which will further detract from it's appeal.
This would also set a precedent for more pipelines to follow in the future.
We should be looking to remove the exsisting high tension wires, not adding more industrial hardware to our park.
I have read that your spokesman Mr. Rankin is from Halifax, I ask him what he would think of pipelines being run through Point Pleasant Park, or the Public Gardens?
Do you think that this will improve the quality of life of this city's residents?
There already exsists a pipeline route(s) in Saint John, what is wrong with those?
Would this come down to the fact that it would be more complicated and cost a bit more money than running through the middle of a nature reserve such as Rockwood?
Regards,
John
In today's Telegraph Journal is an article on a pipeline that may or may not be run through Rockwood Park.
There is talk of possibly more pipelines following the same route as this one, and they have already stated that a 30 meter wide swath would need to be cut in the treeline.
In addition to this is the need for access roads, removal of trees, earth and rock, in short permanent and disfiguring scars on the natural beauty of the park.
There are other pipeline routes in the city that can be used, so lets make they use those and not carve up any more of our park!
My father and I have written emails to protest the construction of the proposed natural gas pipeline, please do the same if you care for the future of Rockwood Park.
The article also states that our Mayor knows nothing about this, so lets do our part to inform him and the rest of council.
Let them know that this in not acceptable.
I have attached a copy of the email my father sent, feel free to modify it to suit you and add more or create your own.
The email address given in the newspaper is: nbpipeline@jacqueswhitford.com This is to the engineering company heading up the project.
Kevin Watson, Rockwood Park/Leisure Services: rockwoodpark@saintjohn.ca
Also please send to our mayor and councilors:
MAYOR: mayor@saintjohn.ca
DEPT. MAYOR: mhooton@rogers.com
Councilors:
Jay Chang: info@changyong.net
Steve Chase: schase@nb.sympatico.ca
Bill Farren: wdf1@nbnet.nb.ca
John Ferguson: john.ferguson@gnb.ca
Glen Tait: immune@nbnet.nb.ca
Chris Titus: satitus@nb.sympatico.ca
Carl White: carlw@nb.sympatico.com
Councilors without email:
Ivan Court: 672-0872
Peter McGuire: 674-1151
Complete listing of the council contact info.
http://saintjohn.cioc.ca/details.asp?RSN=267&Number=87
Cheers,
Chris
4 comments:
If you lived in St. Andrews then it will be a different story. Bernard Lord will be opposed to such a pipeline. Saint John of course is a different story. Go figure.
Does anybody have a map of where the pipeline will go? Supposedly it's going to go right through the province, and New Brunswickers will get squat out of it. I'm assuming the mayor will find out-who else would make the decision about whether it goes through the park? New Brunswick just seems to be getting worse and worse.
Whatever happened to the good old days? When you couldn't find a spot on the whole hill of Lily Lake to put your towel for a swim or a tan at the beach.
When there were paddle boats, row boats and plenty of summer contests put on by the local radio stations and other events of the time like the greased log cross, swimming races and many other things along with prizes.
It was also a great place to pick blue berries! Or go fishing after the lake had just been stocked
It seems like just yesteryear an old barn that used to be in that area burnt killing numerous horses ((19 to 29 I think?))
But that was a little over 30 or more years ago as I was just young and an incident like that at the time was a Hugh tragedy and I think the beginning of the end for uncertain change as time would march by.
I remember long before the overpass was put in over City Road when a horse drawn wagon used to pass by our house on Gilbert street from the lake area and we would all run out and jump on the back for a ride down the street as the wagon made it's daily trip to the graveyard behind the old Canadian tire store on Thorn avenue to bring shovels and supplies to the men doing the upgrade. (But I suppose that was when the Post Office as we know it was a Lumber yard)
It was just a great place to go and have fun or to pass the day talking to out of town campers and tenters.
And just escape the everyday problems and drift off for a while and still feel safe back then up there.
And as time passed the animal farm was stripped down to the pavement, cages taken out, animals gone,duck pond gone etc.
And finally the people started to thin out over time but mind you that area’s geometry has changed significantly and the amount of people in that part of the city is far less.
For the life of me I can't understand why the City does not try to properly promote it again and get some life back to the area and maybe the radio personalities can get something going in the summer months too.
I know that hoping the gas pipeline won't be put in up there is like asking an addictive Government to stop exploiting OCD (vlt's) to save lives or study the proper use of Ritalin to children who are a match for it's medical use but I guess we can still hold out for miracles.
I suppose my point is that area used to be a good place to go and have a little fun once upon a time and the memories seem to hold up quit strongly in ones mind over a vast amount of time. Heck I can still picture the Rockwood Park School Building in my mind and how it looked across the field toward the Lilly Lake background on a frosty fall morning recess.
This comment is addressing one of the posted photos in this article. More specifically, the one posted as "http://static.flickr.com/30/47822063_926fa159eb_o.jpg". Actually, the correct file location for this image is "http://eapicnic2004.tripod.com/t/DSC_1824.JPG".
My concern is in regard to the correct source referencing this image. What is that? When any use of an image or article is done, the user must cite correctly where it originally comes from, unless stated otherwise by the author of said item. If this not done, the use of the media is deemed as plagiarism.
As for this image in particular, the original source does not offer a means to contact the photographer, therefore, this image may only be used with accompaniment of the web site url.
Darren
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