Council questions water export policy

NORTH VANCOUVER City Council will ask the province
to examine its policy of selling fresh water for export by
determining what effect that export would have on the

aquatic ecosystem.

Concerns were raised recently
by Ald. Barbara Perrault after the
city was asked to comment on a
provincial report on water
resources.

The report explains that al-

By Pamela Lang
Contributing Writer

though bulk water export from
Interior streams is prohibited, the

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province has in the past granted
licences for the export ‘‘of water
discharging directly into the ocean
from coastal streams.”’

The province’s criteria for re-
jection of such licence requests is
that the water be a ‘“‘surplus to
local and provincial require-
ments,”’ and that the operation
“must not have undesirable en-
vironmental and land use effects."’

Perrault maintained that a
reduction in the amount of fresh
water entering the ocean may af-
fect the ecosystem, and therefore
have an undesirable environmental
effect.

Her motion, passed unani-
mously by council, calied for the
city to urge the minister of the

NORTH VANCOUVER
CITY COUNCIL

environment to study the impact
of such a reduction.

Although water is covered in
the Free Trade agreement as a
commodity, its flow to American
markets can be cestricted for
bonafide environmenta! reasons.
said Perrault.

With the large supply of fresh
water in British Columbia, the
province needs to ‘‘establish a
very firm policy for protecting
threatened ecosystems,*’ she add-
ed.
Ald. Barbara Sharp said that a
copy of the motion should go to

Ce: i ie
NVC ALD. Barbara Sharp

the Greater Vancouver Regional
District and the Union of British
Columbia Municipalities. Her
suggestion was added to the mo-
tion, and passed.

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