Help protect our water supply!

GCL member Mark Goldberg and James Gordon are the signators on an official
application made last week to the Environmental Commissioner Of Ontario
to object to the renewal of Nestle's water bottling license.

THEY NEED OUR HELP to help convince the province to deny this renewal.

At the Nestle bottling plant in Aberfoyle, they are basically taking our
water for free.

They can now draw 3.6 million litres per day from the same aquifer as
the City of Guelph and they pay nothing for it! water! (That is about 7
percent of our city's daily intake) This is the commercialization of a
public resource. The world’s largest food and beverage corporation is
bottling our water and selling it back to us for more than the price of
gasoline! Their permit is up for renewal in June. When they apply for a
renewal, their application will be posted on the Ministry of the
Environment’s Electronic Bulletin Board and people will be asked to
comment during the following 30 day period. They are hoping to organize
a campaign to get thousands of people to say they are opposed to the
renewal, and are asking us to help them.

There is an organizational meeting scheduled for:

7 pm on Tuesday February 13th in the Canada Room, ground Floor, the
Co-operators Building on Macdonnell Street.

Review the text of the application