Gravel Is A Renewable Resource!

[ASRG]

The Speaker: The hon. minister.

Mrs. McQueen

We do, though, have rules and regulations for when the
extraction of gravel is happening. Those rules and regulations
must take place. Quite frankly, our department monitors and
evaluates that very well, the compliance, that that happens.: Well, thank
you, Mr. Speaker. Quite frankly,
gravel is something that we use as a resource in this province.
When we take it out of the rivers and it renews itself, it's an
important resource that we have. We use it for many different
things in the province.

Ms Blakeman: No, Minister, gravel does not renew itself. Given
that once the damage is done, no amount of reclamation will ever
restore our riverbeds and aquifers, at what point will this minister

[per]

Don't these guys realize that we get to read the transcripts of their drivel. I know it is not easy to stand up and speak to issues in public but as they are speaking to the same group of faces and continually practice is should be easier to sting a few coherent sentences together than Ms. McQueen has done here. Not withstanding that, the Minister of Environment and Water should know that although plentiful, gravel is a finite resource.

[per]

I wonder if the regenerative gravel resource policy is aligned with the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans who have overlapping jurisdiction (rules and regulations as Ms. McQueen puts it) on water ways.

[grassfarmer]

I'm sure she is correct - gravel is a renewable
resource caused by weathering and erosion of rocks.
Problem is it's not renewing itself nearly as quick as
it's being extracted - kinda like oil.
Although there are some guys that think oil too is a
renewable resource.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/what_if_o
il_and_natural_gas_are_renewable_resources.html