Looming water crisis 'big, big, big'

Daily Herald -Tribune ^ | April 23, 2007

[hedgetrimmer]

It doesn’t if the ownership of the water remains firmly in government hands

Why would a government that defends the rights of its citizens, sell their public property off to a foreign country?

[Vicomte13]

“Why would a government that defends the rights of its citizens, sell their public property off to a foreign country?”

For the benefit of the citizens, of course.

Canada sells oil to America from the Tar Sands. Shouldn’t it?
Canada sells nickel from Sudbury to America. Shouldn’t it?
Canada sells iron ore from Ontario to America. Shouldn’t it?
Canada sells natural gas to America, down from the fields in the West through Sarnia into Michigan. Shouldn’t it?

All of the above are normal transactions which keep Canada perking along, but they all have in common that they are non-renewable resources.

Water, by contrast, is a renewable resource. It falls from the sky and wells up from the ground. If it isn’t used, it flows down the rivers and out to sea, mixes with salt, and is lost.

Why would a government that sells non-renewable resources, or allows them to be sold, at a nice profit, be unwilling to sell a super-abundant and self-renewing resource to people who badly want it?

It doesn’t make sense. At all.

Now, if the purpose is to sit on the water and simply enjoy the schadenfreude of the parched Americans while all that good water rolls down the rivers and out to sea every year, that’s certainly a choice of what one can do with one’s property, but it’s not a principled stance. It’s just simply being mean because you can. It’s also cutting off your nose to spite your face, because that water is gone, and you didn’t get anything for it. Pipe it to the US, and it’s as valuable as natural gas, but will never run out.

[hedgetrimmer]

It doesn't if the ownership of the water remains firmly in government hands

This article has everything to do with corporate behemoths jockeying to loot Canada of a publicly owned resource. It has NOTHING do to with altrusim, or citizens that give support to a neighboring country in trouble.

[hedgetrimmer]

For the benefit of the citizens, of course.

Riiiiiggggghhhhttt....And what was your paycheck for this? And how much more do Canadian citizens pay for something they already own when they pay their water bills?

[Cold Heart]

I was snorkeling there about 1966. A small party of my fellow midshipman from the training ship GOLDEN BEAR found a beach that looked promising except for all the sea urchins we saw. We found a tide pool with a strong river like flow we could jump into and flow out to sea with the urchins barbs just a foot or so below our bellys. We thought we were smart and really hadn’t figured that getting back to the beach would entail stepping on those urchins.

The training ship’s doctor wasn’t really a doctor and his urchin spine extraction procedure was more painful than the barbs. The next day I didn’t bother to go to him for the procedure on my next collection of barbs.

Looking back, I think I owe an eardrum injury to the quack from a subsequent dive.

Curacao was an OK dive, but I dove every port we hit and diving was what we did whether it was supposed to be good or not.

[GMMAC]

You appear to be attributing a remark to me which I plainly never made - one wonders if, when your hedge was trimmed, a tad too much was taken off the top?

As for the rest of your comment:
Talk of "... corporate behemoths jockeying to loot Canada of a publicly owned resource ... " clearly mirrors the rhetoric of your Northern moonbat fellow travelers.
Further, my comment #52 refers not specifically to this particular 'water' issue or to " ... altrusim, or citizens that give support to a neighboring country in trouble ..." but rather to you habitually posting articles which actively or tacitly encourage others to disparage Canada - a well proven friend & ally of America.
However, it's pertinent because the posted article contends, unrealistically, that all this is about to abruptly change. Especially since something like 3/4 of our collective fresh water is in one way or another tied into the mutually controlled Great Lakes.

[hedgetrimmer]

How much, as a Canadian citizen, do you make when your government sells your public water supply to a foreign country? You still haven’t offered this information. Because it is a PUBLIC water supply, I presume this information is also PUBLIC.

[Chances Are]

But of course!!!

CA....

[GMMAC]

Given, I've never said water is being sold, never seen any conclusive proof that it is and the Conservative government continues to say it isn't taking place, your question takes on the nature of the proverbial “do you still beat your wife”.

Also, I'd note you don't answer questions and/or acknowledge your obvious errors as evidenced by your nonresponse to my comments #'s 52 & 66.

[freemike]

This all started in the mind of a communist. I remember Mikhail Gorbachev back in the 80’s or 90’s making some kind of statement about the world running out of water and the need for nations to start controlling it to prevent future wars. I am really waiting for some nut out there to in all seriousness to say global warming is shrinking our atmosphere. In other words,, the sky really is falling! What a sales pitch!! “The world is coming to an end,, and only we can save it! But you must give us all power over your lives and do it now!!”
How times change! I remember it was a joke in cartoons to see some bum standing on a street corner holding up a sign saying “The World is coming to an End.” Now it’s movie stars, politicians and rich elites doing the same thing!

[hedgetrimmer]

We desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism."

Mikhail Gorbachev
Chairman of the Board, Green Cross International

[Kenny Bunk]

Aruba also has huge oil refineries with plenty of waste gases to power desalinization plants. It’s a small scale version of the engineering that has allowed Saudi Arabia to quadruple its population.

[Czar]

"One of the authors of this document proposes that the Nation-State is dead..."

Of course, it isn't, but that won't stop the NAU/NWO enthusiasts from fantasizing.

National sovereignty is not something conservatives take lightly. Nor will we give it up without a fight. All of the NGO/NWO/NAU wonks are very good at dreaming this crap up -- lets see how committed they are in the streets.