Shouldn’t the title for the next Clean Lakes 101 Science Cafe be “Love PFAS in the Lakes” ?? Or perhaps “PFAS Love in the Lakes“?
Given that the well-endowed, corporate polluter and developer-sponsored Clean Lakes Alliance won’t put any of their abundant resources into addressing PFAS in the Yahara Lakes or its tributaries, wouldn’t this title be more appropriate?
Fish from Lake Monona, Monona Bay, and all the downstream lakes also have significant levels of PFAS in them. These potent poisons very likely effect their reproduction–or “love” as this “science cafe” is calling it.
Will Mr. Chenevert discuss the effects of PFAS contamination on fish and their reproduction–or, err…their “love”? If I had to bet, I’d say the likelihood he will discuss this is ZERO. The likelihood that anyone at DNR, CLA or UW have looked into PFAS effects on fish? On people who eat the fish? Very small. I hope someone can prove me wrong.
As I wrote last year…
Is this Orwell’s 1984? “TOXIC CHEMICALS = LOVE”?
Why would a well-endowed organization that purports to be about “clean lakes” and “healthy communities” completely ignore ongoing toxic onslaughts to the lakes, aquatic organisms, fish, and people who eat the fish–many of whom are low income people of color?
Perhaps it is because Clean Lakes Alliance founders and current funders include Madison Gas & Electric, Alliant Energy, ATC, Spectrum Brands and other corporate entities that have poisoned the lakes for decades? And millionaire-owned Hovde Properties, whose developments spew copious quantities of heavy metal and toxic chemical-laden sediments into the lakes? Oh, and let’s not forget sustaining CLA founder Foley & Lardner, which represents big developers, and the investment firms and banks that fund CLA…
Perhaps these powerful corporate entities are not willing to fund any organization that says anything–forget about does anything–about the toxic pollution they spewed into the lakes (or funded others to spew) for decades?
[Below, PFAS fish at Monona Bay, with ice anglers in the background]
