Ontario’s Water Is Not For Sale

Ontario’s Water Is Not For Sale

White Wolf Property Management paid $61 million for a well site outside Guelph. It wants to renew its bottled water permits for that well and a second one in Erin for ten years.

White Wolf belongs to the family that owns Ice River Springs. Wellington Water Watchers is a local advocacy group. It estimates Ice River Springs would control about 85 per cent of Ontario’s water bottling permits. Erin and Guelph both drink groundwater.

The renewed permits would allow the two wells to draw about 2.1 million litres a day for ten years. Ontario charges bottlers $503.71 for every million litres. That is about a twentieth of a cent a litre.

The Ford government lifted Ontario’s bottling moratorium in 2021. In September 2025 it loosened the permit rules again. Public water keeps moving into private hands while the people who drink it watch from outside the room.

We are calling on the Ford government to:

Reject both renewals. Refuse both permits and let them expire on 15 November 2026.
Require consent, not notification. No bottling permit should be issued without the free, prior and informed consent of the First Nations whose treaty lands the water comes from.
Phase out bottled water extraction. Set a date to end commercial water bottling permits in Ontario and stick to it.

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Send a message to Joseph Racinsky, MPP for Wellington-Halton Hills

I am writing to ask you to oppose two water-taking permit renewals in your riding. Both belong to White Wolf Property Management. Both of those wells are in your riding. One sits at 101 Brock Road South in Puslinch. The other sits on Concession 7 in the Town of Erin. You also sit in the government caucus, so you can raise this with Environment Minister Todd McCarthy. Almost nobody else in this fight can. White Wolf belongs to the family that owns Ice River Springs. It paid more than $61 million for the Puslinch property in January 2025. It now seeks to renew its permits for ten years to pump groundwater and sell it in plastic bottles. Erin and Guelph both rely on that groundwater for drinking water. We are asking you to: Reject both renewals. Refuse both permits and let them expire on 15 November 2026. Require consent, not notification. No bottling permit should be issued without the free, prior and informed consent of the First Nations whose treaty lands the water comes from. Phase out bottled water extraction. Set a date to end commercial water bottling permits in Ontario and stick to it. This province has done the right thing here before. Ontario held a moratorium on new bottling permits for more than four years. In April 2025, Centre Wellington bought the Middlebrook well near Elora and put it in public hands. You served on Halton Hills council before you came to Queen’s Park. You know what it looks like when the province makes a decision about a community without its input. Our communities rely on this water to live and grow.

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