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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (11147)	4/3/2007 7:29:24 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Respond to of 36921

well they better look again, the governments of Ontario Quebec and 8 states are moving to make sure the water from the Great Lakes stay in the great lakes, and doesn't go to Arizona according to the TV. Apparently the people in Arizona are wasting water on Avocadoes, at least according to the nice lady on TV and they water them so much they are going to want water from the great lakes to keep up production? So wait till you see the tax they are thinking of. $3.71 per Million Gallons....... From the Toronto Star...... Businesses face levy on water use Ontario to tax water bottlers The province plans to slap a fee on companies that bottle large amounts of water taken from the Great Lakes basin, the Star has learned. Apr 03, 2007 05:56 PM Michael Oliveira canadian press Companies that draw a profit by tapping into Ontario's water supply will be made to pay a conservation charge, the province announced Tuesday in introducing legislation that critics slammed as a hollow pre-election promise. The Safeguarding and Sustaining Ontario's Water Act, which would implement a deal with Quebec and eight U.S. states to ban almost all water transfers outside the Great Lakes basin, would also allow the province to charge commercial and industrial users for the water they take and use. Revenue would be used to cover a portion of the province's costs of managing water resources. Bottled-water companies are among the users being targeted first as "just one small step forward," said Premier Dalton McGuinty, who added that other businesses should get ready to pay at a later date. "There's an important principle that we want to put in place that recognizes water is a public commodity. It's owned by all of us together and it's time to attach a real value to that," he said. Still, the government admitted that even the first companies to be targeted wouldn't start paying before 2009. Critics said the whole announcement seemed hastily put together in anticipation of the October election. The government promised in 2003 to stop "the reckless giveaway of Ontario's water" and it's now scrambling to get something done before the election campaigning begins, said New Democrat Peter Tabuns. "Ontario is going to have a lot less water (in the future and) we have to get serious about managing it," said Tabuns