#hillsburgh

[tailwindsbb]

This little lady is why you will see dandelions on our grounds every spring. . . . . . #bedandbreakfast #hospitality #weloveourjob #visitydh #erinontario #hillsburgh #adventure #wetlands #ecotourism #activelifestyle #mothernature #ontario #exploreontario #outdoors #spring #getoutside #adventure #grateful #discoverON #helping #pondlife #pond #discoverErin #pollinators #busybee #conservation https://www.instagram.com/p/CdWidAUpUlE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bedandbreakfast #hospitality #weloveourjob #visitydh #erinontario #hillsburgh #adventure #wetlands #ecotourism #activelifestyle #mothernature #ontario #exploreontario #outdoors #spring #getoutside #grateful #discoveron #helping #pondlife #pond #discovererin #pollinators #busybee #conservation

[vision360tours]

Home for Sale - 70 Trafalgar Road, Hillsburgh, ON N0B 1Z0 Virtual Tour: https://tours.vision360tours.ca/70-trafalgar-road-hillsburgh/

#Home for Sale #Hillsburgh #Ontario #Vision 360 Tours

[carbombrenee]

God’s Acre, Hillsburgh

#cemetery #headstone #taphophilia #millrace #ontario #graveyard #village #small town #mill pond

[ta-chazei]

Barn and tent

#caffenol #barn #hillsburgh

[reclaimedwoodtablesontario]

10’x60” Reclaimed Wood Table we made for Hillsburgh home / www.hdthreshing.com #reclaimedwoodfurniture #reclaimedwoodtable #sawbucktable #cottagestyle #hdthreshing #mennonitefurniture #solidwoodtable #customtable #antiquewood #handmade #ontario #ontariowood #hillsburgh #hillsburghontario (at Erin, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpfAmGB9W_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kmxqe89xnp0o

#reclaimedwoodfurniture #reclaimedwoodtable #sawbucktable #cottagestyle #hdthreshing #mennonitefurniture #solidwoodtable #customtable #antiquewood #handmade #ontario #ontariowood #hillsburgh #hillsburghontario

[kaminamatoi]

2018, The Year of Death to Childhood

First it was Stephan Karl, then Stan Lee, And now Steven Hillsburgh! Who's next!? Why are all the good people suddenly dying!?

#Steven Hillsburgh #Stan Lee #Stephan Karl #Why!?!? #Pain #Childhood #Sadness

[fatehbaz]

Nestle: Multinationals as the New Colonial Powers. A Tale of Many Cities [...]

In 2002 Nestle hired John Hedley, an ex-MI6 agent – British military intelligence – as Head of Security. Among other things, Hedley was responsible for organizing an operation to spy on civil society groups critical to Nestle in Switzerland, mainly the ATTAC group. When this operation was unveiled by a Swiss investigative journalist that denounced it in the Swiss TV, Nestle had to face a court case and was condemned by the Swiss justice for it. Nestle also developed what is known as the “War Room”, a high-tech communication centre that tracks in real time any mention to Nestle in social media, so that the company can react fast to any “threats” posed by people. [...]

In the 1970s an international boycott was launched against Nestle due to its practices of promoting bottle feeding and discouraging breast feeding, causing infant illness and death [...]. To fight this campaign Nestle hired Raphael Pagan, an Army Intelligence Officer at the US Department of Defense. Pagan advised US Presidents Nixon, Reagan, and Bush on Third World Policies [...]. Pagan received a Life Achievement Award from President Reagan [...].

In 2011 Nestle organized its annual “Creating Shared Values” conference in Washington in partnership with “The Atlantic Council” – a US based organization that brings together big business, politicians and the military. [...] The main panel discussion at this event was with Nestlé’s CEO Peter Brabeck and the President and CEO of The Atlantic Council Frederick Kempe, with the tilte: ‘Creating Shared Value in Latin America: Opportunities, Obstacles and Future Directions in Nutrition, WATER, Rural Development’ [...]

In Wellington County, Nestle Waters Canada has permission to extract 4.7 million litres of water a day in wells at Hillsburgh and Aberfoyle and according to Mike Balkwill from Wellington Water Watchers, “the company has applied to renew those permits, while it extracts water without the consent of Six Nations, on whose territory it operates, and despite public opposition from several indigenous organizations.” [...]

The situation is the same in Florida where although the local water authority considers that the water system is in recovery from over-exploitation, Nestle still wants to pump water from Ginnie Springs. The common pattern emerging from these and other cases – in the State of Michigan or in the small city of Sao Lourenço in Brazil – also shows that it is always local groups that defend water, not the State’s water or environmental authorities. On the contrary, [...] in many places Nestle “merges” with the local authorities, as in Maine where a Nestle manager was on the State’s environmental protection agency board [...]. Recently, the ex-Nestle’s Head of Public Affairs, Christian Frutiger, was appointed Vice-Director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation – SDC, the Swiss Government Agency responsible for Development Aid programmes – where he will be responsible for SDC’s Global WATER program! [...]

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Franklin Frederick. “Nestle: Multinationals as the New Colonial Powers. A tale of Many Cities.” Defend Democracy Press. 22 December 2019.

[onpoli]

On July 15, Wellington Water Watchers (WWW) unveiled a billboard on Gordon Street, just north of Nestlé's bottling plant in Aberfoyle, Ontario. It asks people to send Ontario Premier Doug Ford a letter demanding a full environmental assessment of water taking for bottling by Nestlé and other corporations in Ontario.

In 2016 Kathleen Wynne's government imposed a moratorium on new permits to take water for bottling yet Ontario permits the extraction of more than 4.7 billion litres of water each year in Wellington County alone.

Any day now Nestlé is expected to submit an application to the Ontario government to renew their permit to extract up to 4.7 million litres of water per day from their wells in Aberfoyle and Hillsburgh. And that concerns residents of Guelph, the largest city in Canada that relies entirely on groundwater for its drinking water.

Filing this application will trigger a 90-day online consultation process. The public is encouraged to make submissions. However, it's important to note this online consultation prevents citizens concerned about the environmental consequences, commodification of water, plastic waste, and disregard of Six Nations treaty rights from having direct contact with decision-makers.

WWW, a non-profit organization committed to the protection of local water and to educating the public about threats to the watershed, says the application and review process fails to adequately assess the consequences of Nestlé's water mining.

"The current system doesn't even consider the plastic waste that's generated," says Robert Case, chair of the board of WWW, "let alone the climate change impacts of the plastics production and trucking. It doesn't adequately consider cumulative impacts of water-taking on groundwater systems, and it certainly doesn't anticipate the challenges for water security brought on by climate change or problems created for public access to water by corporate exploitation and control. And it ignores Canada's commitment under the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous peoples to attaining free, informed, prior consent from affected Indigenous communities before issuing these permits."

#canadian politics #canpoli #onpoli #ontario #guelph #indigenous issues #environmental issues #water access #nestlé

[stevemaclellan]

Premier Doug Ford’s government has announced that the provincial moratorium on new permits to bottle water may expire on January 1, 2020, opening the tap for multinationals like Nestlé.

This decision directly conflicts with the two-thirds of Ontario residents who support phasing out all permits to take water for bottling.

Already, Nestlé Waters Canada has permission to extract 4.7 million litres of water a day at wells in Hillsburgh and Aberfoyle in Wellington County. The company has applied to renew those permits, while it extracts water without the consent of Six Nations, on whose territory it operates, and despite public opposition from several Indigenous organizations.

#water #nestle #onpoli #environment #ford

[tailwindsbb]

We have a couple wee ones staying their Mom and we thought a little picnic breakfast beside the pond would be fun. Let us know if you would like this experience! . . . . . #bedandbreakfast #hospitality #weloveourjob #visitydh #erinontario #hillsburgh #adventure #ecotourism #activelifestyle #mothernature #ontario #adventure #grateful #visiterin #backyard #paradise #newexperience #picnic #breakfast #pondlife #pondside #nature https://www.instagram.com/p/CgHLMHMOumf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bedandbreakfast #hospitality #weloveourjob #visitydh #erinontario #hillsburgh #adventure #ecotourism #activelifestyle #mothernature #ontario #grateful #visiterin #backyard #paradise #newexperience #picnic #breakfast #pondlife #pondside #nature

[lifevoicecanada]

We had a wonderful group of 15 #ASIST participants who graduated the #workshop in #Guelph. These amazing individuals are now going back to the Guelph and surrounding communities (#listowel #cambridge #hillsburgh #kitchener #waterloo #orangeville) and will help make them safer from #suicide with the new #suicideintervention skills they've learned. Special thanks to @soniamcdonald_edify for being my awesome co-trainer for this workshop. And to Two Rivers for supporting the work we do with a space to do it in. Also, thanks to @flowtkw @thewoolypub and @chicopeetube and @goodgriefguru for your awesome #selfcare #giveaways. Our participants really benefited from your generosity and support. .. .. .. #floating #chicopeetubepark #thewooly #ourparticipantsrock #endstigma #stopsuicide #mentalhealth #mentalhealthtraining

#asist #ourparticipantsrock #waterloo #endstigma #orangeville #guelph #giveaways #floating #cambridge #suicideintervention #mentalhealthtraining #mentalhealth #listowel #kitchener #workshop #suicide #thewooly #hillsburgh #stopsuicide #selfcare #chicopeetubepark

[shanedominogray]

My happy place. (at Hillsburgh, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2jO2pygpF5/?igshid=tor7qeo4zaxy

[wizkidmelburn]

at Hillsburgh, Ontario

[fatehbaz]

Sources for thousands of Detroit residents without water access for years; Detroit lead poisoning; history of how Nestle conquered Michigan water; and how Flint residents pay the state more in utility fees in a single month for water access in a single household than Nestle pays the state in an entire year to extract 130 million gallons of water.

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Nestle, which earns over $7 billion in annual bottled water sales, pays a once-a-year $200 administrative fee to extract over 130 million gallons of water from Evart, while people are poisoned and die in nearby Flint, where a single months’ water utility bill is over $200.

[Source: Jessica Glenza. “Nestle pays $200 a year to bottle water near Flint -- where water is undrinkable.” The Guardian. 29 September 2017.]

Flint became synonymous with lead-poisoned water after government officials, looking to save money, switched the city’s water supply from Detroit city water to water from the corrosive Flint river. Once the city had switched, the number of children with elevated lead exposure doubled; residents reported unexplained rashes and losing hair. An unpublished study recently found fetal deaths in Flint increased by 58% during the crisis. [...] Despite having endured lead-laden tap water for years, Flint pays some of the highest water rates in the US. Several residents cited bills upwards of $200 per month for tap water they refuse to touch. But just two hours away, in the tiny town of Evart, creeks lined by wildflowers run with clear water. The town is so small, the fairground, McDonald’s, high school and church are all within a block. But in a town of only 1,503 people, there are a dozen wells pumping water from the underground aquifer. This is where the beverage giant Nestle pumps almost 100,000 times what an average Michigan resident uses into plastic bottles that are sold all over the Midwest for around $1. To use this natural resource, Nestle pays $200 per year. Now, Nestle wants more Michigan water. In a recent permit application, the company asked to pump 210 million gallons per year from Evart, a 60% increase, and for no more than it pays today. [...] In a state where officials denied Flint’s water was poisoned with lead; where Detroit residents choose between heat and water; where the water-borne, pneumonia-like legionnaire’s disease killed a dozen; and where gastrointestinal bugs spread among residents who lacked (or didn’t trust) water, Nestle’s request seemed like salt on a wound.

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While thousands in Detroit have no water access, even people with water access have high rates of lead poisoning; in one Detroit zip code in 2017, 22% of tested children exhibited lead poisoning.

[Source: Karen Bouffard and Christine MacDonal. “Detroit kids’ lead poisoning rates higher than Flint.” The Detroit News. 14 November 2017.]

Detroit had Michigan’s highest proportion of children test positive for lead poisoning in 2016 — 8.8 percent of kids tested — including one ZIP code where 22 percent were found to have lead poisoning. Data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services show children are being sickened by lead in counties from Manistee to Hillsdale and St. Clair, though the rates of lead poisoning in Flint continue to improve.

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In 2020,  Michigan institutions and judges continue to allow Nestle to pay minor administrative fee of $200 per each water extraction facility, as Nestle extracts over half a million gallons every single day from single individual wells (ie: just one annual fee of $200 for the Evart well).

[Source: Garret Ellison. “Nestle wins legal challenge to Michigan groundwater extraction.” MLive. 28 April 2020.]

A state administrative judge has upheld a permit that allows global food and beverage giant Nestle to boost the amount of Michigan groundwater it extracts for sale under the Ice Mountain bottled water brand. In a decision dated April 24 [2020], Judge Dan Pulter ruled that Nestle’s plans to withdrawal 576,000 gallons of groundwater per day from the headwaters of two cold water trout streams in Osceola County will not negatively impact the surrounding natural resources. Concerns were raised about potential impacts to Muskegon River watershed and the tiny $200 annual paperwork fee Nestle pays per facility to extract millions of gallons of Michigan groundwater to sell for profit. [...] Much of the broader opposition was from those upset that Nestle could source groundwater at essentially no cost while people in Flint were drinking water contaminated by bacteria and lead, and low-income residents of Detroit were having their taps shut off for non-payment.

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Nestle pumped over 2.5 billion gallons from a Mescota County well; Nestle has now pumped over 1 billion gallons from the Evart wells; the Osceola well now supplies millions of gallons a year.

[Source: Garret Ellison. “Nestle in Michigan: Unpacking the water battle backstory.” MLive. 26 December 2016. Updated 20 May 2019.]

Nestle made a deal [...] to drill four high-capacity wells at their 600-acre private hunting preserve in Morton Township [...]. The water is pumped 12 miles west to Stanwood. [...] The Sanctuary wells pumped more than 2.5 billion gallons between 2005 and 2015. [...] Nestle pumped at 400 gallons-per-minute until Mecosta County Judge Lawrence Root ordered it stopped in 2003 [...]. When Judge Root ordered the pumping stopped, Nestle looked north for another supply. The company found a willing partner in the city of Evart, which has sold Nestle more than 905 million gallons of Twin Creek spring water [...]. Evart wells have accounted for roughly a quarter of Nestle's total Michigan supply since 2005, but in 2014 Nestle discovered traces of perchlorate in its water. The toxic chemical, which is linked to thyroid problems in women and children, came from the Evart well field, which became contaminated with decades of Fourth of July fireworks ash. [...] When Nestle shut down one of its Evart wells because of the pollution, it looked to offset the capacity loss by increasing the pumping rate of an older well it owns in Osceola Township, [...] Nestle did not really use it much until 2011. Since then, the well has supplied more than 45 million gallons. Almost 70 percent of that total volume was pumped in 2015 alone.

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To gain uninhibited access to water extraction sites, Nestle merges with local government institutions and deliberately targets rural, isolated, or “economically-depressed” communities.

[Source: Franklin Frederick. “Nestle: Multinationals as the New Colonial Powers. A tale of Many Cities.” Defend Democracy Press. 22 December 2019.]

In 2002 Nestle hired John Hedley, an ex-MI6 agent – British military   intelligence – as Head of Security. Among other things, Hedley was   responsible for organizing an operation to spy on civil society groups critical to Nestle in Switzerland, mainly the ATTAC group. When this operation was unveiled by a Swiss investigative journalist that denounced it in the Swiss TV, Nestle had to face a court case and was condemned by the Swiss justice for it. In Wellington County, Nestle Waters Canada has permission to extract 4.7 million litres of water a day in wells at Hillsburgh and Aberfoyle and according to Mike Balkwill from Wellington Water Watchers, “the company has applied to renew those permits, while it extracts water without the consent of Six Nations, on whose territory it operates, and despite public opposition from several indigenous organizations.” [...] The situation is the same in Florida where although the local water authority considers that the water system is in recovery from over-exploitation, Nestle still wants to pump water from Ginnie Springs. The common pattern emerging from these and other cases – in the State of Michigan or in the small city of Sao Lourenco in Brazil – also shows that [...] in many places Nestle “merges” with the local authorities, as in Maine where a Nestle manager was on the State’s environmental protection agency board [...]. Recently, the ex-Nestle’s Head of Public Affairs, Christian Frutiger, was appointed Vice-Director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation – SDC, the Swiss Government Agency responsible for Development Aid programmes – where he will be responsible for SDC’s  Global WATER program! [...]

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The source of America’s corporate water crisis can be traced back to 1976 when Perrier, now owned by Nestle, opened an office in New York. By 2016, bottled water sales had surpassed soda as the largest US beverage category [...]. Nestle Waters’ 2018 worldwide sales exceeded $7.8 billion. [...] Ultimately, the debate’s particulars lead back to a question at the heart of the issues: should water be commodified and sold by private industry, or is it a basic human right? Former Nestle chief executive and chariman Peter Brabeck labeled the latter viewpoint “extreme” and  called water a “grocery product” that should “have market value.” He later amended that, arguing 25 liters of water daily is a “human right,” but water used [for purposes other than drinking, bathing, etc.] shouldn’t be free. [Source: Tom Perkins. “The fight to stop Nestle from taking America’s water to sell in plastic bottles.” The Guardian. 29 October 2019.]

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Tens of thousands of Detroit residents have been without water access since 2014; Detroit water contaminated with giardia, shigellosis, lead; Detroit administrators refused until the pandemic to even declare the water shutoffs a “public health issue,” and Michigan officials blame poor people for spending money on “luxury cell phones” instead of their water utility bills.

[Source: Nina Misuraca Ignaczak. “Detroit Water Shutoffs and a Crisis of Public Health.” Belt Magazine. 9 March 2020.]

The water crisis in Detroit began in earnest in 2014, during the city’s bankruptcy proceedings, when the DWSD abruptly shut off water service to tens of thousands of Detroit residents for nonpayment. [...] But activists have been fighting for years to get the city to recognize water shutoffs as a matter of public health. [...] Since the start, Bouier and other water activists have been fighting a narrative that assigns blame primarily to those impacted by the shutoffs. Early on, officials perpetuated the idea that residents were simply lazy and irresponsible. One official suggested that Detroiters should go down to the Detroit River with a bucket to fetch water. Then-emergency manager Kevyn Orr suggested that customers would rather pay for “luxuries” like cell phones than water. [...] As of early March [2020], activists had renewed their calls to the governor to enact a moratorium [on water utility shutoffs in Detroit], linking poor sanitation to an increased risk of Coronavirus. “Michigan residents have particular reason to fear the  spread of coronavirus because the ongoing deprivation of tens of thousands of people from basic access to water and sanitation […]” the group’s statement reads. “Residents deprived of water in their homes have been sharing or borrowing water at an alarming  rate – 80% in one study – creating a transmission path for coronavirus, as  well as hepatitis A, shigellosis, campylobacter, and giardia, all of which have been plausibly linked to the shutoffs by health officials.”

[onpoli]

Ontario PC leader Doug Ford does not appear to have issued a policy statement on the issue of bottled-water takings, but the Toronto Star has previously reported that clients of the Ford family firm, Deco Labels & Tags, includes Nestlé Canada Inc., Coca-Cola, Cara Operations and Porter Airlines.

In August 2014, The Globe and Mail reported, "Nestlé Canada, which says it has done about $20,000 worth of business with Deco since 2007, got involved in the [City of Toronto's] bottle-ban debate after [Doug Ford's brother Rob] Ford became mayor. On Nov. 26, 2012, a lobbyist acting for Nestlé Waters Canada – a division of Nestlé Canada – met with a member of Mayor Ford's staff to discuss the bylaw, Toronto's lobbyist registry indicates.

It’s safe to assume that Doug Ford will continue to allow Nestlé to withdraw millions of litres of water from Ontario every day. In 2013, Nestlé faced criticism for continuing to take water from drought-stricken Hillsburgh, Ontario. Nestlé successfully appealed a restriction from Ontario’s Environment Ministry designed to limit groundwater extraction during times of drought. Former Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe was caught on tape saying he believes that access to water is not a human right.

#canadian politics #canpoli #onpoli #ontario #water access #nestlé #opcp #doug ford

[goalhofer]

2017-18 Oshawa Generals Roster

Wingers

#7 Sullivan Sparkes (Waterloo, Ontario)

#8 Serron Noel (Ottawa, Ontario)

#15 Kyle MacLean (Basking Ridge, New Jersey)

#17 Renars Krastenbergs (Jelgava, Latvia)

#19 Eric Henderson (Kingsville, Ontario)

#25 Kenny Huether (Londesborough, Ontario)

#61 Allan McShane (Barrie, Ontario)

#67 Mason Kohn (Davie, Florida)

#96 Nick Wong (Erin, Ontario)

Centers

#12 Domenic Commisso (Oakville, Ontario)

#18 Robbie Burt (Hillsburgh, Ontario)

#34 Grayden Gottschalk (Belleville, Ontario)

#90 Danil Antropov (North York, Ontario)

Defensemen

#5 William Ennis (Gloucester, Ontario)

#6 Sean Allen (Puslinch, Ontario)

#16 Riley Stillman (Peterborough, Ontario)

#21 Matthew Brassard (Barrie, Ontario)

#24 Ian Blacker (Oakville, Ontario)

#37 Alex Di Carlo (Woodbridge, Ontario)

#42 Mitchell Brewer (Waterdown, Ontario)

#66 Nico Gross (Pontresina, Switzerland)

Goalies

#31 Logan Gauthier (Newington, Ontario)

#38 Kyle Keyser (Coral Gables, Florida)

#Sports #Hockey #Hockey Goalies #Canada #Ontario #New Jersey #Latvia #Florida #Switzerland