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LETTERS: P.E.I. residents concerned about water and affordability

WATER RESOURCE IS PRECIOUS

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The province continues to allow open season on limited and fragile ground water resources, the sole source of water for all Islanders, not just a small percentage of corporate farmers — under immense potato-yields pressure from the Irvings.

As such, all who live here have a strong interest in this matter, and should express their concerns. The 2002 moratorium on high-capacity wells in P.E.I. did not come out of thin air. Regardless of what a scientist says, whose opinions are filtered by the whims of his political employers and pressure from industry, serious concern must be given to this huge onslaught of high-capacity well applications all over P.E.I., and for years to come.

You only have to look to other jurisdictions such as California to see how badly this kind of water resources use can go. I encourage all Islanders to research this on the net or ChatGTP. Truly, find out why Gary Schneider, and other knowledgeable speakers, protested this at committee hearings, to balance the dominant industry focus and perspective on our water........

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