Mike Frett - Saint Albans Messanger - Jul 23, 2018
A day-long tour of St. Albans found Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., joining members of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Lake Champlain Basin Program aboard a pontoon in the middle of St. Albans Bay, where the Representative saw first hand the Bay’s struggles with water quality.
Renee Wunderlich - NBC5 - Jul 20 2018
The Vermont democrat boated around St. Albans Bay with state wildlife officials.
Elizabeth Hewitt - VT Digger - Jul 20 2018
Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt toured the bay on a two-boat flotilla, with the head of the Lake Champlain Basin Program, a representative from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and a handful of life-jacket-sporting reporters. Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge director Ken Sturm recalled a decades old wastewater slogan: “Dilution is the solution to pollution.” “That’s not really what we like to talk about though,” he said. “The solution to pollution is stopping pollution.” “I think the long-term approach is not about penalties, it’s about practices,” Welch said. “We want to adjust things so that the way we develop, the way we plow our roads, the way we do our agriculture — those systems have to be ones that respect the obligation all of us have for a sustainable planet.”
