In this film from 1974, Giles Walker takes a look at a variety of projects undertaken by scientists at Environment Canada's Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg to study the processes that pollute or disrupt clean and balanced freshwater environments. Beautiful footage of IISD Experimental Lakes Area starts at 3:28.
“You get what you pay for,” Scott Vaughan of the IISD said. “While the CEC has always been pretty low-profile, it’s done a lot of good work and improved our understanding of the state of the environment across North America.”
"The Lake Matano discoveries had special significance for Dr. Sherry Schiff in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Her long history of studying freshwater habitats, including those at IISD-ELA in northern Ontario, helped her formulate a hypothesis."
"Howard Mann, a senior law advisor at the Winnipeg-based International Institute for Sustainable Development, says ISDS cases can impede sustainable development, especially when governments are already struggling to pay the bills. “If governments are paying billions of dollars to settle claims, they’re not spending it on education, health or local infrastructure.”"
IISD Experimental Lakes Area's Scott Higgins contributes a piece to this insert in the Winnipeg Free Press, explaining the science of phosphorus and algae.