Comments

Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks I would like to respond to the following item: Proposed changes to provide flexibility for water taking activities ERO # 025-0730 Posted on July 2, 2025, Comment Period July 2, 2025 – August 1, 2025. Read more

I am a licensed Water Resources Engineer and, based on my professional experience and knowledge of the complicated issues that arise in water use allocation, I oppose these changes to the permitting system for water taking activities. Read more

Thanks for the chance to comment on the proposed changes to the way licenses to take water are dealt with. Water is the most important public resource in Ontario and we must do everything we can to safeguard it. Careful oversight and Indigenous consultation is crucial. Read more

Do not allow PTTWs to be transferable. They could sit in with a new owner for years, then suddenly be used. And the amount of water taking allowed should reflect a reasonable amount, not the usual upper limit which is unsustainably high. Thank you, Read more

I am strongly opposed to the proposed new amendments to Ont. Regulation 387/04 under the Ontario Water Resources Act. Read more

Attention of the Ontario Government: I am commenting on “Proposed changes to provide flexibility for water taking activities”. The proposed Read more

Bill 5 is an outright home grown assault on Ontario's self-sustainability and reliance in the face of catastrophic climate change and the machinations of foreign governments who would seek to undermine our sovereignty. Read more

I strongly oppose the proposed regulation that would allow companies who own water permits to transfer their permit from one company to another without reapplying, because this would allow a business to be sold to a new owner who could inherit the water rights without additional review. Read more

Water, and public access to clean drinking water, needs to be protected. Environmental protections on water need to be strengthened and not diminished. Please do NOT fast track water taking permits. Water should be a public resource for the public good not a commodity sold for profit. Read more