Federal politicians are trying to get a special committee on bulk water exports up and running. The committee will decide the fate of projects such as Newfoundland's Gisborne Lake. The only problem is M-Ps cannot agree on who will chair the committee. The Prime Minister wants Liberal Dennis Mills in charge. New Democrats have rejected Mills because he once favored bulk water exports, and the NDP says it won't change its position.
All parties have to be in agreement for a special committee of the commons to operate.
Mills says he hopes to have the committee working in a couple of weeks. Another community in the province is pressuring the federal government to help deal with a sewage problem. The town of Happy Valley-Goose pumps 12 million litres of raw sewage into the Churchill River every day. The council wants to build a nine-million dollar system to treat that sewage. It would be similar to a treatment lagoon used in Deer Lake.