BlueTriton should not be…

BlueTriton should not be granted a 10 year permit to pump water because, as we know, droughts are more and more common (we are currently in one right now) and will getting increasingly so during the climate crisis. Water should be a resource of the commons, not bottled and sold, generating tons of plastic waste, so that a company can profit off of it.

Additionally, the Aberfoyle well is in the territory of the Haudenosaunee, who, two years ago, delivered a cease and desist order to Nestle, at that same well. In order to have reconciliation, we need to honour the wishes of those whose territory we are on and that involves not pumping water for profit from their lands.

The City staff of Guelph also did a study and found that, if the Aberfoyle well is continued to be pumped that it could endanger Guelph's city water supply within the next decade given the strains of a larger population and increased drought conditions.

Permits to draw water for the purposes of selling the water for profit should not be allowed in this province. Water is a right and it is something that we must protect and not commodify. We should be known by our descendants as those that cared for something as essential as water, instead of allowing it to be bottled for profit and sold by a corporation.

I urge you to not given Blue Triton a 10 year water permit and to protect our water for the public good.