UPDATE FROM THE MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION AND PARKS – FUEL SPILL – FEBRUARY 15, 2019 Point of Loss (area adjacent to 401 up to Aberfoyle Creek) The Ministry of Transportation has approved the closure of both eastbound and…
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via theRecord.com A month after a truck crashed and dumped a tanker load of jet fuel into Mill Creek, the environmental toll from the spill appears to be growing higher and higher. John Johnston, a Puslinch Township landowner, worries the…
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JANUARY 31, 2019 The Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks has directly provided the following update: Temporary barriers will be installed on the shoulder of the eastbound 401 this evening to allow safe work to continue at the Point of…
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The Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks has directly provided the following update: Vacuum trucks remain at key bridge access locations along Mill Creek (primarily at Concession 2) to skim visibly impacted surface water where possible. The consultant’s crews also…
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Click the image below to view video of cleanup effort. There is a growing public outcry over the handling of the spill from the 401 accident last Sunday from a tanker carrying over 50,000 litres of Jet Fuel. Since that…
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via therecord.com Nestlé won’t reveal how many employees were laid off at its water bottling plant south of Guelph, saying only that it’s faced “unprecedented cost increases” this year. An unspecified number of people who work at the Nestlé facility…
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Residents in Wellington County can apply for grants to properly decommission old wells and upgrade wells that are still in use. Funds are provided by Wellington County through the Wellington Rural Water Quality Program (RWQP). The Grand River Conservation Authority…
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Council for the Township of Puslinch at its meeting to be held on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 will consider a Feasibility Study to assess the viability of implementing municipal water and sewage services within key areas of the Township. The…
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The City of Guelph has signed an agreement to provide Nestlé Waters Canada with access to analysis from its science-based groundwater flow model through a consultant. The model was developed by the City with the Grand River Conservation Authority and…
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via CBC.ca A Guelph water protection group will speak out about the impact of Nestlé’s activities in the region, at a community summit on water taking in Vittel, France later this month. Susan Glasauer is an environmental sciences professor at…
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UPDATE FROM THE MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION AND PARKS – FUEL SPILL – JANUARY 24, 2019 The Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks has directly provided the following update: The majority of roadside work is suspended pending receipt of…
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CTV News has put up an excellent video about the cleanup of the jet fuel spill in kitchener and I’d encourage everyone to watch it. It does a good job of giving us some information, viewpoints and images that I…
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I have just confirmed that some jet fuel from the spill on the 401 Sunday night has ended up in Mill Creek. Crews are on scene vacuuming visible fuel and ocean booms are in place in an attempt to stop…
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via CBC.ca The provincial government is seeking public feedback on whether it should extend a moratorium on new—or expanding any existing—permits for bottled water companies to take groundwater. A moratorium put in place in Dec. 2016 by the previous Liberal…
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Wellington Water Watchers is launching a lawn sign and volunteer recruiting campaign aiming to “Say NO to Nestlé”. More information about the campaign can be found by CLICKING HERE. Here is a sample of their campaign signage:
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Public meeting to be held Thursday March 22nd at the Puslinch Community Centre to discuss. A notice was posted on Friday March 16 on the township website indicating that there will be a public meeting to discuss this issue. According…
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This week we attended a meeting, ‘Growing the Greenbelt’. The Ontario government has plans to greatly increase the Greenbelt boundaries and is going through the consultative process. The biggest driving force for the Greenbelt update is the protection of water….
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