via guelphtoday ‘We have enough evidence to suggest there’s a problem there and I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask that work stops while the problem is addressed:’ Councillor Matthew Bulmer Puslinch council is requesting a local gravel pit to…
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Dear Editor: I am writing today in response to the article from the Mill Creek Stewards published in Puslinch Today on November 3rd. The article contains a number of misrepresentations and a clearly one-sided and uninformed view of the aggregate…
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via guelphtoday.com Water advocates are demanding the exclusion of local wells in any sale of Nestlé’s North American water bottling portfolio, and instead return them to municipalities. This summer Nestlé announced it is considering the sale of most of its…
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via cbc.ca Ice River Springs to take over Pure Life brand of bottled water Nestle Canada Inc. says it is selling its Pure Life bottled water business to Ice River Springs as Ontario prepares to give its municipalities veto power…
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On November 14 there will be a meeting in Guelph for those interested in learning about the impact of Nestle in communities around the world. For more information email [email protected] Click on image for full size view
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via Puslinch.ca The ministry would like to provide an update of the remediation efforts that have taken place as a result of the January 13, 2019 jet fuel spill. As many of you are aware, for clean-up purposes the area…
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via GuelphToday New billboard aims to get the attention of the public as Wellington Water Watchers continues its fight against the water bottling giant The Wellington Water Watchers unveiled a billboard Monday with a loud message in its fight against…
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The Ministry of the Environment says cleanup from a January spill of jet fuel on the 401 is estimated to be completed by the end of September. Cleanup of the spill of about 50,000 litres of jet fuel was originally…
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I don’t know how everyone else feels about this… but it doesn’t seem right to me that the public has no access to this water testing report. from GuelphMercury.com: Ontario’s ministry of the environment says it can’t release the results…
Continue Reading ...Please see bottom of article for all figures referenced below. The first year of the new decade 2020 has been anything but normal for Puslinch and the rest of the world thanks to COVID. However it’s important we don’t let…
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Today Nestlé Canada and Ice River Springs are sharing that they were not able to work through the Competition Bureau’s regulatory approval process within Nestlé’s set timeframe to allow for a successful sale of the Nestlé Pure Life business in…
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via cbc.ca Ontario is proposing to extend a moratorium on water-taking bottling permits for nine months. A spokesman for Environment Minister Jeff Yurek says this would give the government more time to review the science and consult with the public,…
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via globalnews.ca A Guelph school program is doing its part in an effort to protect the main source of the city’s water supply. Students from three schools will be planting 1,500 trees near Starkey Hill Conservation Area on Oct. 4…
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via guelphtoday Lafarge Canada recently announced that it plans to extend its aggregate quarrying operations to include a third pit at an operational site just off Highway 124 south near County Rd 32 in Guelph Eramosa and Puslinch Townships. Lafarge…
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In 2009, the company was granted permits to take up to just over six million litres of water per day at three locations on the property at 7051 Wellington Road 124, but those permits will soon be expiring. Late last…
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A handful of activists arrived in front of the Ontario provincial legislature today seeking to highlight the ongoing issue of groundwater extraction by giant commercial water bottling operations . Using the figures from the multinational Nestle, they say the company…
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FUEL SPILL UPDATE – May 17, 2019 UPDATE FROM THE MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION AND PARKS The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks conducted sediment and surface water sampling in Shade’s Mill Reservoir to evaluate any residual impacts…
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