We Love Outdoors July 19, 2021 - Episode 16

This week's episode of We Love Outdoors with Rich Davenport begins with a review of the recent very wet weather in WNY, as back to back heavy rain events has lifted water levels across WNY resulting in lake shore flooding along Chautauqua Lake and a flash flood that impacted Cattaraugus Creek, forcing the Sunset Bay Walleye Shootout Main Event to be cancelled this past weekend.  No, these events aren't the result of climate change, folks, just inclement weather like we always have had over the billions of years the planet has had weather.  Nevertheless, the Big Fish Friday event was held, and standings for the prefishing day and a brief round up is also provided.  Additional events are coming up, with a couple still taking registrations. Additional information received from DEC fisheries surveys shows how important fishing was to WNY during the covid covid covid emergency, and with efforts renewed to return to this emergency with lock downs and mask mandates and all the unnecessary tyrannical garbage with propaganda using the delta strain as they point of fear and dread, how important fishing remains.  Lake Ontario fishing has also seen a huge uptick in large salmon and fishing success in general, but this lake, too, is in the crosshairs for IWT development, as we have information that a developer that specializes in floating wind turbines has Lake Ontario in mind, as Lake Erie is too shallow for this design.  We have also heard that NOAA is considering the eastern Lake Ontario waters, and potentially the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence be established as a marine sanctuary.  Public commenst being taken through September 10, can comment through regulations.gov, or by mail, docket # NOAA-NOS-2021-0050, to Ellen Brody, Regional Coordinator, Proposed Lake Ontario Marine Sanctuary, 4840 South State Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48108-9719.  Apparently the western section of Lake Ontario is NOT included in this filing. Your humble host also provides a schedule of upcoming meetings of interest and updates to some new solar plans for closer to Dunkirk.   NYISO has also weighed in on the renewable mandate, and panning the effort as unrealistic based on today's grid conditions.  In response,m Handsy Andy and his mouthpiece Dick Kauffman decided to slam NYISO for making such comments, how dare they bring facts and reality to the debate!  With the lawsuit against ORES moving through Federal court, perhaps NYISO will be spared the unnecessary challenges in using intermittent power plants and keep the risks to the grid to normal events, not self-induced stupidity.