A comment on Water and Long…

A comment on Water and Long Term Energy.

The laws governing the right to draw water from public waterways are outdated. The intention of the laws at the time they were passed does not align with today's situation. Our natural environment is now under threat and the availability of clean, fresh water for human survival is not to be taken for granted any longer.  Therefore, citizens of any community in Ontario should not have to compete with corporations in order to be provided with water for living.

The days of enjoying the convenience of having water put in a bottle can no longer continue and it is not sustainable. The environment and the provision of water to municipalities MUST come ahead of the sale of water to a multinational corporation. The corporation does not pay a lot for the water, but the single use bottles they manufacture make a lot of waste. A lot of waste.  Also, the proliferation of the bottles of water in our communities sends our children the wrong message about water and allows corporate involvement in a basic human need.

I do not buy bottled water.

It should be the goal of the Ontario Government to have solar panels on every roof top in the province.  It must be made affordable for everyone who owns property.  Instead of continuing with nuclear energy that generates dangerous waste, put a plan in place to get solar panels manufactured and put on all houses. Every rooftop in Ontario ought to have them; it's just wasted space otherwise and a huge wasted opportunity to generate clean energy if not acted upon.

I do not have solar panels but plan to buy.

The success of a long term (clean) energy plan is found in the people's willingness to act.  The people of Ontario are ready to act. Can the government work with the people.  Let's protect our water and generate CLEAN energy together.

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