Ontario may charge bottlers for water

[ConcernedCanuk]

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Ontario may charge bottlers for water

CANADIAN PRESS Dec. 18, 2003. 05:59 PM

"In what would be a Canadian first, the Ontario government said today it is considering making companies such as bottlers and brewers pay royalties on the water they use if they take it directly from the source.

The government also imposed a year-long moratorium on new permits to extract water as it studies the impact on watersheds."

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"Protection of water sources in Ontario has been a major issue since the Walkerton tragedy in May 2000, when seven people died and 2,500 fell ill after their drinking water was contaminated with E. coli bacteria from farm run-off."

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"Controversy erupted last year when then-Tory environment minister Chris Stockwell intervened to allow Swiss-based mining multinational OMYA to take 4.5 million litres a day from the Tay River near Perth, even though it had run dry a couple of years earlier."



Hmmm - Is this gonna affect Korprate Murikka?

Hope not, or we's in doodoo agin'

(sigh)

[burrowowl]

1. GOOD! n/t