Lake Winnipeg - Manitoba- Cleanup

Manitoba’s Liberal party wants the government’s next budget to spell out the cost of cleaning up Lake Winnipeg.

The NDP government has started including “environmental liabilities” in its annual budget, to reflect the cost of rehabilitating old mines or former gas stations. In the 2007 budget, the total for environmental liabilities reached $150 million.

The budget expected in the spring should do the same for Lake Winnipeg, Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard said Monday.

“What we’re saying is that we need to list the environmental liabilities for Lake Winnipeg, so we understand the costs that we are going to have to bear as citizens of Manitoba, as taxpayers,” he said.

“Those are debts or liabilities that we bear right now, and that we are going to have to be responsible for.”

The NDP has acknowledged it would cost more than $800 million to upgrade Winnipeg’s sewage system so it emits less of the pollutants that contribute to devastating algae growth in the lake, Gerrard said.

It will also cost money to implement and enforce proposed limits on phosphates in pesticides and dishwasher detergents, he said.

“It is time to acknowledge that we have an environmental responsibility to clean up Lake Winnipeg and it is irresponsible to omit this province’s largest environmental failure from the budget,” Gerrard said in a release.

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