<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI<div>Robert M<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Wellington Water Watchers <<a href="mailto:wellingtonwaterwatchers@gmail.com">wellingtonwaterwatchers@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 24, 2011 10:23:31 PM GMT-05:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:mill@continuum.org">mill@continuum.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>URGENT ACTION NEEDED!! Nestle Waters Canada – Permit to take Water renewal bid. Deadline is March 5, so please act NOW!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); position: static; z-index: auto; "> <table style="margin-top: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-width: 5px; border-right-width: 5px; border-bottom-width: 5px; border-left-width: 5px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(59, 59, 59); border-right-color: rgb(59, 59, 59); border-bottom-color: rgb(59, 59, 59); border-left-color: rgb(59, 59, 59); width: 550px; position: static; z-index: auto; " border="0" cellpadding="10" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/wp-content/themes/www/library/media/images/www_email_header.jpg" alt="" width="526" height="139"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>Hello Water Watchers, we need your HELP!</p> <h3><a href="http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/2011/02/nestle-water-canada-permit-to-take-water/">URGENT ACTION NEEDED!! Nestle Waters Canada – Permit to take Water renewal bid. Deadline is March 5, so please act NOW!</a></h3><div><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"></span></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>As many of you may already know, Nestle Waters Canada has officially applied for a renewal of its permit to take water in Aberfoyle, this time for an unprecedented 10 years at up to 3.6 million litres per day. The deadline for public comments is March 5th - less than 10 days away - so we're urging you to take some time right now to submit your comments on this renewal bid. Scroll down for comment suggestions AND the direct link to the Ministry of the Environment comment page. Feel free to include your own comments too, of course, or simply cut and paste the points you feel are most crucial. <strong>THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO ACT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE</strong>, please, as we must put a stop to this unprecedented 10-year bid by Nestle - or significantly alter it.</p><p>WWW has requested an extension to this deadline because the proper documents relating to the renewal bid were late coming to us. We are not sure if we will be granted the extension, so all comments must be submitted at the latest by March 5th.</p><p>Please check our website wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca regularly over the next few days to keep posted on news about the extension and upcoming events. For now, mark your calendars for a special Friday March 4th evening speakers' event at the E-bar (which will include an opportunity to submit last-minute comments about the Nestle bid to the MOE) more <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"></span>details coming soon. Please also encourage everyone you know to come out on Saturday March 5th for a whole <strong><em>Community March</em></strong> from downtown Guelph to the Nestle Waters plant in Aberfoyle. Come for the whole march or join in for any part it. All details will be sent out in another WWW newsletter early next week.</p><p>Wellington Water Watchers is also seeking your support in a number of ways during this important - and urgent - campaign. First, please<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"> </span>consider making a donation to our organization, by clicking here: <a href="http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/donate/">http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/donate/</a></p><p>Second, consider becoming a WWW member (if you aren't already) - or renewing your membership with us - by clicking on the following link: <a href="http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/home/become-a-member/">http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/home/become-a-member/</a>.</p><p>Third, spread this email far and wide.</p><p>You can also follow @wwaterwatchers on Twitter or join our Facebook group to spread the word: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_190733987624806&ap=1">http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_190733987624806&ap=1</a>.</p><p>Many thanks for your ongoing support and assistance, helping us to keep our water in the 'shed!</p><p>Regards,</p><p>Mike Nagy and Andre Hueniken,</p><p>Wellington Water Watchers Board Members</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>Click <strong><a href="http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/nestle-waters-canada-permit-to-take-water/">Here</a></strong> for Wellington Water Watchers press release</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Nestle Waters Canada Permit to Take Water</strong></span></p><p>Nestle Waters Canada has applied for an unprecedented 10 year permit extension to take 3.6 million litres of water per day at the Aberfoyle site. We <strong>strongly oppose</strong> this permit for the reasons stated in the attached document, <strong><a href="http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/letter-to-MOE-revisions-Feb-16-rev1.docx">Wellington Water Watchers Technical Submission.</a> </strong>Please feel free to use these comments for your own submission which can be copied into the following<strong> <a href="http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/searchComment.do?actionType=add¬iceId=MTEyMjA2&statusId=MTY4MzIw¬iceHeaderIdString=MTEyMjA2">Ministry of Environment Comment Link</a></strong>. Or use the short points listed below to help you make your case to the Ministry.</p><p>Please note we have requested a much needed extension to this comment period but currently comments must be in on or before March 5. Your comments are critical to letting the Ministry of Environment know about your concerns.</p><p>The Wellington Water Watchers is a not-for-profit organization and your financial support is much appreciated and funds are needed to support this and other important campaigns.</p><p><a href="http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/donate/"><img class="size-full wp-image-1472 alignright" title="donate" src="http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/donate.png" alt="" width="196" height="76"></a></p><p>Thank you!</p><p><strong>Short Points</strong></p><p>Wellington Water Watchers opposes this application because:<br> · The amount of groundwater in our Grand River watershed is not known. Allowing large-volume water taking is like writing blank cheques on a bank account with an unknown balance.</p><p>· Water is too valuable a resource to be given away – and that’s virtually what our province does by charging Nestlé and others a mere $3.71 for every million litres taken.</p><p>· In 2010, Nestlé paid just $2,238 for over 600 million litres of water taken from Mill Creek in Aberfoyle. This works out to about .0000004 cents per litre, a far cry from the true value of such a priceless resource.</p><p>· Environmental harm being done. The millions of litres taken weekly are put into single-use, disposable plastic bottles. The industry claims 60% of these bottles are recycled – as what? – but that still means hundreds of millions every year become litter, or trash in our landfills. We call this a permit to pollute.</p><p>· There are no water conservation measures built into this renewal permit. The volume of water taken should be decreased annually to encourage water conservation. This is one of the principles of Ontario’s new Water Opportunities Act.</p><p>· We believe that water taking is harming Mill Creek. There are no brook trout in the stretch of creek that runs beside the bottling plant, but there are trout in the rest of the creek. Is so much water being taken that it is preventing spring water from upwelling into the stream-bed? Until this is resolved, a precautionary approach should be taken.</p><p>· The applicant has asked for an unprecedented 10-year water-taking permit. Yet we have no idea how drought or climate change will affect Guelph’s water supply in years to come. At most, any new permit should be issued for three years or less.</p><p>· Much of the water when bottled leaves the Grand River watershed. Justice Dennis O’Connor’s report on the Walkerton tragedy recommended that water be managed on a watershed basis. Nestlé and others should be required to use glass, deposit-bearing bottles that are sold only within the Grand River watershed.<br><br><br></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>