Return to INDEX FVRD adopted the zoning amendment bylaw at last Board meeting Erin Knutson The clean and clear waters of Harrison Mills will soon be a bottled commodity. The Fraser Valley Regional District Board adopted the zoning amendment bylaw at their last Board meeting January 27. The bylaw allows Christopher’s Springs, owned by Harrison […]
Return to INDEX (“BACKGROUND” revised May 23/19) RESOLUTION TITLE: “LICENSING OF GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION FOR COMMERCIAL BOTTLING/BULK WATER EXPORT SALES” Authored by: Strathcona Director, Brenda Leigh Passed: unanimously, by Strathcona Regional District, January 24, 2019. Strathcona is a member of a larger regional body: AVICC, the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities (the “coastal communities” […]
Return to INDEX PLEASE CONSIDER FORWARDING, either the link to this posting, or a “copy and paste”, as you see fit. The links at the bottom are important – – the Agri-Food Canada program to increase water exports from Canada. Brenda Leigh, Director on the Regional District Strathcona Board, created an excellent opportunity, by […]
Return to INDEX RELATED: 2019-01-28 Taking of water for export. Director Brenda Leigh re “First in Time, First in Rights” policy 2019-01-25 Strathcona Regional District board passes bottled water resolution for AVICC meeting BELOW: the wording of the Resolution, as it was passed – – near the bottom of this posting trade in […]
Return to INDEX Wording asks province to cease bulk water bottling in Island, Coastal Communities. (Resolutions for AVICC are to be for all of British Columbia. The motion was actually amended; it would apply to all of B.C., if enacted by the Province.) Some Comox Valley residents made the trip to ask the SRD at […]
Return to INDEX by Vanmala Subramaniam The company’s Canadian subsidiary is currently in dispute with an Ontario town that was experiencing a drought. Photo via Flickr user Wilson Hui With about 0.5 percent of the world’s population, Canada has a disproportionate share of global water supply with seven percent of the globe’s renewable water and […]
Return to INDEX By Gavin MacRae Watershed Sentinel writer Gavin MacRae examines how well the new Water Sustainability Act is working in the context of a water bottling controversy in Merville BC’s original Water Act was a relic, drafted when Vancouver was still a fledgling city and before Canada’s first airplane took to the […]
Start with the 1991 article from the L.A. Times. The Ending comes on June 6, 2019 (the last article below). 1991-03-22 Raining on Water Importer’s Parade: Drought: The latest series of storms may have doused chances that a Santa Barbara firm will get a large contract to import water from Fanny Bay, Vancouver Island, Canada. […]
RENATA D’ALIESIO Published March 30, 2011 Updated April 30, 2018 A few weeks ago, Gerry White slipped into the pilot’s seat of his helicopter and took off for a remote lake in Newfoundland. He flies there a couple of times a year, sometimes to salmon fish in the area, but often just to glimpse the […]
The Newfoundland government has endorsed Ottawa’s request that provinces ban bulk-exports of fresh water, but the feds will have to enforce the ban themselves, says the province’s environment minister. Oliver Langdon, Newfoundland’s environment minister, says it will be up to the federal government to prevent existing proposals from going ahead. “It is our opinion that […]