Canal Conflict

After reading the first line of the article, which reads, " Veolia Indianapolis Water is pushing a plan to in a layer of material along the canal, which could trap eggs of turtles that nest in the banks", I knew that I would not be in agreement with the Veolia Water company. For them to think that they can destroy a wildlife population that has been inhabiting the canal for over seven years is absolutely ridiculous. This water company may think that they will be improving the canal by ripping out dead trees and laying a layer of material over the canal, but they are honestly harming the canal more than helping it. This is because they are not viewing the wildlife around it, but only looking at the microscopic picture of just the canal itself. If they were looking at the macroscopic picture, the company would realize that an entire generation of turtles, about 5000, would die this year because of their plan.

One of the problems that I have with this plan is that the tone I got from this article was they were only going forward with this plan was because they now had the money to do so, not because they truly wanted to. THey even had a quote of someone saying that because they had the money to start it, they were finally going to put the money to use. I feel like the Water company is utilizing the money just because it is available but not realizing the harms their program might bring to the nature around the project.