Below is an Orangeville Banner article from May 26, 2010 (these links expire so I am including the entire article).
You can read it in full, but in a nutshell Shelburne Mayor Crewson moved a motion at County Council to remove the water bottle ban that the County implemented in 2008.
The reason? Big business.
"The motion was introduced originally as a gesture of welcome to bottled water company Ice River Springs, which is in the process of setting up a food-grade plastics recycling facility in Shelburne." (Source: Orangeville Banner, May 26, 2010)
So lets see. Shelburne already has water issues, Melancthon's water is being threatened by a 2,400 acre 200 foot deep open pit limestone mine, by Highland Companies a client of Mayor Crewson's insurance company and now Ed wants to remove a water bottle ban to help out business to be located in Shelburne....
What happened to the feeder parts plants that Mayor Crewson championed about 15 years ago? IN fact the town paid for infrastructure to support it at a cost to Shelburne ratepayers of about $300,000.00? Oh yeah it is not running at full capacity-people have been laid off. They had 300 jobs for a few years and now.....hm...... And how much aggregate did it take to construct KTH and Johnsons? A-freaking-LOT.
So lets sell out our water for another few years in favour of a recycling plant who's time is up.
You can read it in full, but in a nutshell Shelburne Mayor Crewson moved a motion at County Council to remove the water bottle ban that the County implemented in 2008.
The reason? Big business.
"The motion was introduced originally as a gesture of welcome to bottled water company Ice River Springs, which is in the process of setting up a food-grade plastics recycling facility in Shelburne." (Source: Orangeville Banner, May 26, 2010)
So lets see. Shelburne already has water issues, Melancthon's water is being threatened by a 2,400 acre 200 foot deep open pit limestone mine, by Highland Companies a client of Mayor Crewson's insurance company and now Ed wants to remove a water bottle ban to help out business to be located in Shelburne....
What happened to the feeder parts plants that Mayor Crewson championed about 15 years ago? IN fact the town paid for infrastructure to support it at a cost to Shelburne ratepayers of about $300,000.00? Oh yeah it is not running at full capacity-people have been laid off. They had 300 jobs for a few years and now.....hm...... And how much aggregate did it take to construct KTH and Johnsons? A-freaking-LOT.
So lets sell out our water for another few years in favour of a recycling plant who's time is up.
Seriously, bottled water's shell and PR game has come and gone. People are realizing what a sham it is and what an environmental disaster it is.
Too bad our local politicians don't realize that most people have computers and software programs now and can produce all sorts of big fancy packages to sell their product, with ONLY good news.
Article:
Water bottle ban remains in place
Dufferin’s water bottle ban will not be lifted — at least for now. Shelburne Mayor Ed Crewson withdrew his motion to lift the ban at last Thursday’s (May 13) council meeting in the face of opposition to the idea from some councillors.
“I don’t have any strong feelings,” Crewson said before pulling his motion. “I don’t have any great passion one way or another.”
The motion was introduced originally as a gesture of welcome to bottled water company Ice River Springs, which is in the process of setting up a food-grade plastics recycling facility in Shelburne.
If it had succeeded, the motion would have reversed a policy approved in November 2008 which banned single-use water bottles from all facilities under the control of Dufferin County.
But the motion met opposition from Amaranth Mayor Don MacIver, who noted the ban was imposed in the first place despite there being water bottling companies elsewhere in the county.
Amaranth Deputy Mayor Walter Kolodziechuk added that if a tobacco company set up shop in Dufferin, the county would not eliminate non-smoking areas. (Source: Orangeville Banner, May 26, 2010)
Too bad our local politicians don't realize that most people have computers and software programs now and can produce all sorts of big fancy packages to sell their product, with ONLY good news.
Article:
Water bottle ban remains in place
Dufferin’s water bottle ban will not be lifted — at least for now. Shelburne Mayor Ed Crewson withdrew his motion to lift the ban at last Thursday’s (May 13) council meeting in the face of opposition to the idea from some councillors.
“I don’t have any strong feelings,” Crewson said before pulling his motion. “I don’t have any great passion one way or another.”
The motion was introduced originally as a gesture of welcome to bottled water company Ice River Springs, which is in the process of setting up a food-grade plastics recycling facility in Shelburne.
If it had succeeded, the motion would have reversed a policy approved in November 2008 which banned single-use water bottles from all facilities under the control of Dufferin County.
But the motion met opposition from Amaranth Mayor Don MacIver, who noted the ban was imposed in the first place despite there being water bottling companies elsewhere in the county.
Amaranth Deputy Mayor Walter Kolodziechuk added that if a tobacco company set up shop in Dufferin, the county would not eliminate non-smoking areas. (Source: Orangeville Banner, May 26, 2010)
If you have any comment to make to Mayor Crewson, either for or against his stance, please direct them to Mayor and Council, Town of Shelburne c/o jtelfer@townofshelburne.on.ca
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