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There are demands that province compensate 100 per cent for flood damage caused by “unnatural” increased flows from the Portage Diversion
A new one-time tax credit announced by the province to relieve the financial burden on municipalities around Lake Manitoba is not enough for at least one RM ravaged by flooding last year. “This tax credit is inadequate. It doesn’t even come close to bridging the financial deficit we’re facing in this municipality due to theScott Forbes estimates flood damage at $2 billion and says most of it could have been prevented if there had been better drainage
Like the problem child in the family, Lake Winnipeg gets all the attention over its phosphorus problems, while its well-behaved smaller sister to the west tends to be ignored. Or at least that was the case for Lake Manitoba until last year, said Scott Forbes, a professor of biology at the University of Winnipeg, who
