GCH petitions federal, provincial governments to protect fresh water
by Simon Conolly
Galway-Cavendish and Harvey Township Council passed a resolution Tuesday afternoon calling on the federal and provincial governments to protect Canada’s fresh water resources.
The resolution asks the upper tier governments to resist “... increasing pressures to export this resource to the United States of America and all other countries.”
The motion, proposed by Councillor at Large Janet Clarkson and seconded by Galway Cavendish Councillor Peter Franzen, also calls for an end to provisions of the Fisheries Act which allow federal bureaucrats to designate fresh water lakes as “tailings impoundment areas.”
CBC News had reported in June that 16 Canadian lakes had been proposed for reclassification as tailings dumps.
Four – all in Newfoundland – are already in use as dumps, and one of the proposed in British Columbia was turned down.
Eight more are to be decided in the coming year, according to CBC News.
The resolution received council’s unanimous support. It will be circulated to MPP Laurie Scott, MP Barry Devolin, the federal and provincial governments and the International Joint Commission on the Great Lakes.
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