Wednesday, November 20, 2019
FREEZE ON WATER BOTTLING PERMITS IN ONTARIO - HMM
Today's front page story in the Waterloo Region Record is titled "Freeze on water bottling proposed". Apparently the Doug Ford, Conservative government are recommending a nine month freeze on the issuing of any new water extraction permits. This moratorium includes both new and expanded permits to take water for bottling purposes.
Hard to believe but provincial Environment Minister, Jeff Yurek, is suggesting that the Progressive Conservative government wish to make their water extraction and bottling decisions based upon sound science. In other words they claim to want to only issue extraction permits where local aquifers are sustainable and will not be run down by commercial pumping and then bottling. Of course what may well be ignored is that all aquifers flow (albeit slowly) and eventually discharge to surface water bodies as in creeks, rivers, and lakes which also flow eventually to the ocean. Therefore any reductions in aquifer levels and volumes (depth) does reduce the quantity being discharged into local watercourses.
There is also the entire problem with believing any government much less a Conservative one in regards to environmental matters. The recent discussions that the provincial Conservative government have been having to "reduce red tape" for the aggregate industry is but one example. The government wish to reduce municipal input and control over gravel pits in their jurisdiction. That "control" is already severely limited by the provincial Ministry of Natural Resources ( & Forestry) and the Aggregate Resources Act.
Of course environmental groups and some municipalities will embrace this nine month moratorium although I suspect that they know this may be no more than window dressing and greenwashing i.e. politics at its worst.
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bottled "spring water" is a big scam, they claim it is "spring water" when it is actually just well water pumped out of the ground in a farmers field and then put into a big tanker and hauled to their plant and transferred into plastic bottles and resold for huge profit. The spring water company pays far less than a penny for the wellwater than re-sells it for $2.00-$3.00 The only damn reason the government is involved in regulating this bottled water scamr is 1. so they get a piece of the action and 2. so they can insure that only their predestined FAVORITE bottled water Corporation can make make the huge profits and 3. to sanction something as legal when it is actually immoral and unethical and selfish and greedy and fraud in essence! Wealth redistribution at its finest! FRAUD
ReplyDeleteAt least some of the Doug Ford people "deep down" know that bottled water is a scam and a rippoff whereas the damn Liberals support the scam blindly or wholeheartedly and the New Democrats and the Green Party are all about wealth redistribution and do not really care about the land or the water. None of the above will do a damn thing to actually fix the problem. They are all counting on the MAJORITY of the public staying unaware and naive and uninformed and ignorant and this is just not going to remain true much longer. Even the so called Ford People who are actually the most informed public officials are still SELECTIVELY announcing only a very small portion of true facts because they too are acting as control freaks. The question I ask is what are they waiting for??? I already know the answer but time will tell and then real substantial changes will occur.
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