LISA HANNA

Dear MP Hanna,

It was very pleasing to see you enjoying a little (much, much deserved) R&R. I seem to be on a list that allows me to make comments. Thanks for the inclusion.

The shut down is auspicious. Bauxite needs to manage their sites in completely different ways--primarily planting forests on all surfaces that are not involved in actually mining or transporting. This would also include vegetation-covered roofs. Even those huge earthen piles could be covered with some sort of vegetated net. Could it work to run the emissions along the edges in perforated tubes and cover them with carbon absorbing plants?

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Whoever will be accountable while having the people's interest at heart

There may be a requirement to do things outside the norm that genuine leaders must initiate by themselves. If any leader would authoritarianism, I imagine it would be you. Not many, if any, people could have summoned the vision of a Marcus Garvey. He had to lead from the top, while never losing site or respect for people at the bottom.

I'm afraid I have rather accommodationist tendencies, tending to proceed gradually along commonsense lines that at least do no harm.

I replaced each name with a letter of the alphabet for the sake of privacy

conversation on Restoring St. Ann's Bay.

 A wrote: then what?

Trevor Burrowes: "...they will be closing down at the mines at water valley for 2 or 3 months but it wont be closing down in discovery bay contract workers will be laid off and permanent workers who operate machines will go to discovery bay and work. That's why they are working extra hard right now to carry most of the bauxite to dbay right now👍"

Trevor Burrowes: There's plenty of off-road space (see the image) to plant trees to absorb the pollution. There's one good example at bottom right. So why don't they do that all over the grounds? How hard is it to plant trees?

B wrote: They need to get out and stop raping the country's resources, we need all the red dirt we can keep #farmerlife

Trevor Burrowes i GUESS THEY FIGURE THEY NEED ALUMINUM FOR PLANES (AND MANY OTHER INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS). (Sorry, caplock error). Even so, what's the excuse for not planting trees (as densely as that clump at lower right) on all the green areas?

B wrote: Jamaican bauxite has been finished we need to keep all our dirt and share it with farmers especially those on poor soils, our attitudes must change of towards our longevity and survival, agriculture and forestry are the only sustainable pathway that are renewable for our survival, every other resources are limited and temperamental..

C wrote: I'm not an expert on this but it would seem practical for govt authorities to step in and require Noranda to gather all the sargasso seaweed polluting the beaches and truck it up to strip mined sites, spread it where they have not replaced the top soil and it will in due time decompose and help to heal the land.

Trevor Burrowes: I love the idea. The tree idea was to deal with whatever is transmitted that cause cancer clusters. But trees ought to help the respiratory system in the age of COVID too?

C wrote: In a properly designed composting operation the decomposing pile of organic material will have perforated piping that channels methane gas to fuel a small incinerator that burns plastic waste to produce a baseline amount of energy to make the whole operation self sustaining.

Trevor Burrowes: Wonderful energy idea! So they'd have more than one product interacting. Undoubtedly, these varied ideas should be given expert scrutiny. My perforated tube idea was to replace the smokestack with a perforated conduit and cover it with constantly renewed CO2-absorbing plants. That would be work for farmers. So instead of a net environmental nightmare bauxite mining could be a kind of environmental plus.

C wrote: Trevor, there was a lady from the Cockpit Country Warriors group with a catchy name, I think it was Miduntalk Wright, who is apparently a Jamaican in Toronto who organized a protest against the Jamaican Embassy in Toronto to protest mining in the Cockpit Country of Jamaica. If you could recruit her that would be great!