Doug Ford government puts Ontario’s water up for grabs
Premier Doug Ford’s government has announced that the provincial
moratorium on new permits to bottle water may expire on January 1, 2020,
opening the tap for multinationals like Nestlé.
moratorium on new permits to bottle water may expire on January 1, 2020,
opening the tap for multinationals like Nestlé.
This decision directly conflicts with the two-thirds of Ontario
residents who support phasing out all permits to take water for
bottling.
Already, Nestlé Waters Canada has permission to extract 4.7 million
litres of water a day at wells in Hillsburgh and Aberfoyle in Wellington
County. The company has applied to renew those permits, while it
extracts water without the consent of Six Nations, on whose territory it
operates, and despite public opposition from several Indigenous
organizations.