💦 💧 Bottled water giant BlueTriton — formerly Nestlé — closing Ontario operations
After years of controversy and local opposition, a water bottling plant and two wells around Guelph, Ont., are closing
"In 2021, Nestlé sold its North American water divisions to venture capitalists that renamed the business BlueTriton. A day after the name change was announced, the Doug Ford government lifted a moratorium on new permits for water extraction for bottling, saying the province’s studies concluded water taking did not adversely impact the environment or other users. In lifting the moratorium, it introduced new regulations, including a need for municipalities to approve new permits to take more than 379,000 litres of water per day.
This did not, however, apply to BlueTriton as a few months later, in November 2021, the province granted BlueTriton a five-year renewal on Nestlé’s permits."
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https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bluetriton-water-bottling-closes/