Preface to the article, MY EXCITEMENT: From: Sandra Finley Sent: September 7 To: Ruth.Bender (The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) journalist who wrote the article below) Subject: RE: Bayer’s Roundup Woes Deepen as Germany Bans Key Chemical Enormous thanks to you, Ruth, and to the WSJ for publishing this article. I am from the farmlands of […]
(I dunno – – Is this a “Public-Private-Partnership“? The Government hands the thing over to a Consortium of Transnational Corporations; tax-payers just provide the money. We become the bankers. Does that automatically make us partners? ) Background to the Ottawa Citizen article below, by Gordon Edwards: Covered for the first time in Canada’s national […]
. . . spearheaded Sweden’s most feminist foreign policy . . . https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Swedish-FM-to-Resign-from-Her-Post-20190906-0006.html?utm_source=planisys&utm_medium=NewsletterIngles&utm_campaign=NewsletterIngles&utm_content=13 The article – short – – is copied below. If you want the original, copy and paste the above URL into your browser. /S) Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom attends a news conference at the end of a summit, to address Palestinian […]
“DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers “good news” to 245,044 subscribers.” Easy to sign up for their news feed; easy to unsubscribe. When overloaded I unsubscribe for a spell. I was grabbed by today’s . . . Wendell Berry on Caretaking “In 2018, Helena Norberg-Hodge sat down with Wendell Berry for a far-reaching discussion. […]
NOTE: The CIB (Canada Infrastructure Bank) in contrast to the Bank of Canada (BofC), see Banksters: Index. News Canada’s biggest public sector union calls the public-private scheme risky and expensive August 6, 2019 The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) is looking to pressure cash-strapped municipalities into using Public-Private Partnerships to refurbish or replace water and […]
New owners of Revelstoke water bottling plant shipping water to Vancouver facility while they re-build plant by Alex Cooper Marke Antonsen The new owners of the Revelstoke water bottling plant are selling their product in the United States and in town. Revelstoke Artesian Spring Water can bought at the Esso gas station and Big Eddy […]
Return to INDEX In regard to the “Strathcona Resolution” to stop the export of groundwater from B.C. (NOTE: Links to More history on Water Export is under HISTORY in the INDEX) As at August 2019: Ontario exports groundwater but is currently under a moratorium, triggered by drought and citizen opposition. Newfoundland did have a moratorium, […]
Richard Belanger and Sara Ward presented their plans for a new water bottling facility to Canal Flats residents on Thursday August 15th. Photo by Lizzie Midyette Water bottling facility proposed in Canal Flats Source of the Columbia Beverages Inc. promises jobs and financial investment into community By Dean Midyette Special to the Pioneer At an […]
GoldenKey Investment Group is drilling test wells on Fisher Road. Investment group plans to build water bottling facility in Golden GoldenKey Investments Group has purchased a 20-acre parcel of land on Fisher Road, and has begun steps toward building a water bottling facility. The company focuses on investments, specializing in natural resources like coal, iron, […]
How many urban people think that sources of drinking water are protected? The article tells me that rural dwellers might disagree. Nicholson has only 350 residents. I wonder how big is the aquifer that supplies their water? Which is a dumb question. Aquifers are not enclosed by impenetrable, water-tight walls. Water flows, sometimes fast, sometimes […]