Intentional Release

The CBC has now become a puppet of the Harper government.

It is not a release to minimize the risk for a larger disaster but an intentional release, of course by a government that is not part of the Harper clan. The CBC belongs to Canadians, not the Harper government.

Water flows through Manitoba dike breach

The intentional release of water through the Assiniboine River dikes at the Hoop and Holler Bend in Manitoba is fully underway.

"Right now, the slow release is working," Premier Greg Selinger said Saturday at about 2 p.m. CT seven hours after water began streaming through a cut in the dike and into a farm field.

The Manitoba government released a Twitter post when the process began at 7 a.m. CT. Two excavators made the cut on the east and west sides of the release point, southeast of Portage la Prairie.

"We've never had to do anything like this in Manitoba flood-fighting history so this is certainly an unprecedented move that the province is engaging in," Jay Doering, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Manitoba, said moments after the spill started.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2011/05/14/mb-dike-breach-assiniboine-flood-manitoba.html

It is an engineered release, to minimize the overall potential destruction to the provence.