Return to INDEX https://www.change.org/p/stop-belfast-water-bottling Genevieve Robinson started this petition to Prime Minister’s Office Jacinda Adern PM Cloud Ocean Water has bought land for a proposed second bottling plant, close to its current operations in Belfast. The China-owned company could be eyeing up billions more litres of water from beneath Christchurch to bottle and sell overseas […]
Return to INDEX Excellent letter! A request to support the Strathcona Resolution Offered for use as a Template. AVICC-Qualicum Many thanks to Julie: Here is the letter that has gone out to QB, Parksville council and the RDN (Regional District Nanaimo) board. If it can be passed onto other jurisdictions encouraging their local government to […]
Return to INDEX The list below was started in 2019 during the first round of the battle over the Merville taking of groundwater. And then stopped when the Union of BC Municipalities took a Resolution to the Provincial Govt – no to the taking of the water. Please use the “Comments” at the bottom […]
By Wanyee Li StarMetro Vancouver Ainslie Cruickshank StarMetro Vancouver VANCOUVER—The Federal Court has quashed a controversial Fisheries and Oceans Canada policy that allowed fish farms to transfer young salmon into open-net pens without first testing them for a contagious virus that could pose a threat to B.C.’s iconic wild salmon. In a 199-page decision released […]
Return to INDEX This article from the U.S. offers insights . . . said federal and state restrictions on water resources “are painting us into a corner. They call for smart growth and then we can’t build around towns because of inadequate facilities.” And finding more water is becoming increasingly difficult. . . . “We […]
Return to INDEX UPDATE: see 2020-01-27 Water export from BC: High court ends decades-old water dispute, Vancouver Sun. (https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=27047) WATER Local action on the protection of water is catapulting right across Canada. One woman, Brenda Leigh, Director on the Strathcona Regional District in B.C., is the sweat behind the “STRATHCONA RESOLUTION” re the taking of groundwater […]
Report 2, Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy, Lessons For Canada ROSEBanffFinal2 , forum held in Banff. Scroll down to EXCERPTS. (Report 1, Rosenberg Report for Canada 2007-03-14 Water: valuable & important document, Rosenberg Report) an assessment of the “Water for Life” project of Alberta Environment.) =================== Below might explain why today, Agri-Food […]
Return to INDEX RELATED: 2007-03-25 Water: Lessons For Canada, Report 2, Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy – – – – – – – – – – – Rosenberg report to the Government of Alberta, February 2007. The Rosenberg International Forum (California) was asked by Alberta Environment to evaluate its “Water for Life” strategy. The […]
Return to INDEX My tongue has a swear word on it. CONTENTS COMMENTS THE BOOK CORPORATE GOVERNMENT AND WATER ================== COMMENTS It appears to be a new and insidious development. If it’s here in Saskatchewan, you probably have it, too. In Saskatchewan water has fallen under SWA (Saskatchewan Watershed Authority), Department […]
THE TAKING OF WATER FOR PROFIT CANADA, STOP WATER EXPORT WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE? A “SCROLL THROUGH” INDEX TO ANSWERS IN CONTINUOUS UPDATE ORIGIN OF INDEX: 2019-01-28 The “Strathcona Resolution” B.C. If the subject of your question about Taking Water for Export is not in the Index, use the Comments at […]