🔊Join Water Watchers in the demand that Ontario protects our water by suspend new or renewed water-taking permits until the system can reliably safeguard essential water uses, public health, & ecological integrity.
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#WaterCrisis #onpoli
Happy International Women's Day!
This community is so lucky to have the women it does to raise awareness and stand up for our community.
#internationalwomensday #FightForFarmland #wilmotlandgrab
So if Ford said "There has to be a willing host," Wilmot Township Council needs to say we're an unwilling host.
If councillors aren't willing, there's a high chance they won't get re-elected this fall.
Let them know
wilmotcan.com/demandaction/
@wilmottownship.bsky.social
#WilmotLandGrab
Landowners & residents of the Township of Wilmot have stated they are unwilling hosts, yet the Region of Waterloo keeps trying to force the landowners to sell their land to build an industrial mega-site.
#FridayFacts #WilmotLandGrab #FightForFarmland #UnwillingHost
@wilmottownship.bsky.social
MPP Aislinn Clancy is quoted in Bill Doucet's Record article saying water permits should be rejected. We think an industrial mega-site should too.
www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis
@aislinnclancy.bsky.social
@therecord.com
Confused about our water capacity issues in Waterloo Region? CTV has an explainer video:
www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/vi...
#WaterCrisis #RegionofWaterloo
@ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social
We have options to protect our farmland, moraines and groundwater aquifers:
- A Bluebelt to protect critical water resources
- A Foodbelt as proposed by MPP Mike Schreiner
- An expansion of the Greenbelt
#WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis #WilmotTownship #RegionofWaterloo
@mikeschreiner.bsky.social
On Feb 18, Terry Pender wrote: "The drop in the water level in AFB2, the dying swamps and dry wells around Shingletown in Wilmot Township are warning signs that can’t be ignored, they say."
www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
#WaterCrisis #WilmotTownship #RegionofWaterloo
@therecord.com
At Regional Council on Jan 28, Kevin Thomason asked:
“They have approved every water-taking permit, every gravel pit, forced this confounding mega-industrial site, and approved massive urban sprawl without a single study.”
#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis
@kthomason.bsky.social
Take Action: Let the government know your thoughts about this massive water-taking to wash gravel potentially coming at such a high cost before March 6th
ero.ontario.ca/index.php/no...
#WaterCrisis #WilmotTownship #onpoli
More news about the #watercrisis in Waterloo Region. It will only be made worse by paving over 770 acres of farmland and the ridiculous water-taking permit by Esbaugh Sand and Gravel.
Email or call your government officials today:
wilmotcan.com/demandaction/
@therecord.com
#gravelpit
Hear from the Township of Wilmot Council themselves: people want to protect the farmland and the rural feel of Wilmot.
youtu.be/zcUUZtqVWNg
#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WilmotTownship
@wilmottownship.bsky.social
February 19, The Record spoke to MPP Mike Harris Jr who stated that development should not be stopped during the water crisis in Waterloo Region.
Developers are happy with the statement.
www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
#FridayFacts #FridayFact #WaterCrisis #RegionofWaterloo
@therecord.com
On Jan 28, Kevin Thomason said, "Going through with the #WilmotLandGrab will forever change an entire rural municipality on a scale never seen here before, against the unwilling landowners, unwilling citizens, and an unwilling municipality."
#FightForFarmland
@kthomason.bsky.social
Development, water-taking permits, aggregate pits and now the Wilmot Land Assembly, have been forced on our communities.
#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis #WilmotTownship
@regionofwaterloo.bsky.social
In Jan, we released a report about the threat to the farmland full of data & facts re how Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region & Ford have violated planning rules & threatened groundwater resources.
Stop this process.
#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis #WilmotTownship #RegionofWaterloo
Happy #FamilyDay to the family farms in #WilmotTownship. The ones that feed our families.
If given the choice, would you take your family to visit an industrial mega-site or a family farm?
#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab
Think about where your food comes from. From the land. From the farmers who toil every day.
Local & provincial governments want to build an industrial mega-site on prime Class 1 land.
Show 💚 today & email your councillors and MPP.
#FightForFarmland #ValentinesDay
This week, Waterloo Region was drilling at Snyders & Sandhills Roads in Wilmot Township - looking for more water wherever they can find it.
Andrew Wilson said in his delegation Jan 28, putting more straws into a glass doesn't give you more water.
#FridayFacts
#WaterCrisis #RegionofWaterloo
Coverage of the Regionof Waterloo #watercrisis has gone beyond local to national.
Yet the Region hasn't stopped the #WilmotLandGrab and is still talking about taking additional water from Wilmot Township.
#FightForFarmland
@wilmottownship.bsky.social
Cancelling the #WilmotLandGrab:
· Does NOT ban future employment lands in the proper location
· DOES protect taxpayers, residents, & Region’s credibility
#fightforfarmland
#watercrisis #wilmottownship
Harris government cuts & red-tape reduction lead directly to the Walkerton water crisis in the 1990s.
Harris Jr. then focused on cuts and red-tape reduction. Now we have a water crisis despite efforts & warnings by municipalities and local community groups.
#FridayFact #WaterCrisis #onpoli
Now's not the time to build an industrial mega-site. Media has been building since Nov 26 with Wilmot staffing issues and water issues in the Region. The Region's solution incl taking Wilmot water.
Ask your Councillors to stop the #WilmotLandGrab
wilmotcan.com/demandaction/
#wilmotlandgrab
Last week's council meeting featured three delegations to abandon the 770 #WilmotLandGrab, especially after the water crisis has come to light.
kitchener.citynews.ca/2026/01/29/p...
@citynewskit.bsky.social
#FightForFarmland #WaterCrisis #WilmotTownship
Placing a large, unknown industrial water user directly beside their supply wells creates risk:
· Constraining future growth
· Restrict their system
· Force them to absorb infrastructure or conservation measures to accommodate an industrial user
#WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis
The proposed industrial site in Wilmot is adjacent to:
🪣Major municipal wells
🌊The same connected aquifer system
🏗️ Infrastructure that supplies K-W, Cambridge, New Hamburg & Baden.
#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis
John said: “When a municipality declares a growth pause due to water limitations, it is acknowledging that system resilience has been exceeded.
That changes the risk calculus for all major land and infrastructure decisions.”
#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis
Would we be at a crisis level, if the Region didn't need to pump water from the Mannheim Service Area to Elmira? And they keep pushing for who-knows-what industry with unknown water needs for Wilmot?
Contact your councillor & demand they stop the #WilmotLandGrab.
#FridayFact #WaterCrisis
When minister of red tape, MPP Mike Harris Jr eliminated some reviews & public hearings for water-taking permits. His dad cut red tape & spending - it made the Walkerton water crisis worse.
www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab
#WaterCrisis
Chair Redman talked about a lot of plans in her 2024 address. Where are the plans now? Because they all need water.
www.therecord.com/opinion/colu...
#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis
@therecord.com
@farwell570.bsky.social
