Beaufort Watershed Stewards Oppose Water License for Bottling Plant

environment · Berray Rd area

The Beaufort Watershed Stewards oppose the Natural Glacial Waters bottling plant's application for a 30-year groundwater extraction license of five million litres per day on Berray Rd. They cite lack of sufficient scientific data on potential impacts to local aquifers, fish migration, salinity, oyster operations, and domestic wells, and have sent a letter of opposition to MLA Josie Osborne.

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• “We are sending a letter to Josie Osborne, our MLA, stating our opposition to this license... NGW has been bottling water on Berray Rd since the nineties... They applied for an Existing Use Ground Water license which would allow them to extract five million litres of water per day.” — The Islands Grapevine – September 19th, 2024 (September 19th, 2024)

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