Fuel Ghoul is drowning in water disputes this summer! First it was the lunacy of letting Coke and Pepsi bottle our public water, and now its become clear that the US government is plotting to capture a large percentage of Canada's fresh water supply using the North American Free Trade Agreement! This discussion on WonderCafe.ca serves to educate everyone on the perversions of certain US political organizations and their thirst for this most precious Canadian resource.



Travis Lupick, a reporter for an online newspaper called The Straight wrote on August 16, 2007 about a noisy demonstration outside the Westin Bayshore hotel in Vancouver two days earlier. It seems this dispute is the latest in a growing campaign of resistance to the proposed Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America.

Police kept protesters out of the Vancouver hotel on August 14, where international trade representatives from Canada, the US, and Mexico were holding talks. Apparently the SPP meeting was focused on the possibility of bulk-water sales and diversions of fresh water from Canada to the US.

Do you feel like demonstrating? On August 20 and 21, the SPP will host a North American Leaders' Summit in Montebello, Quebec. Peter Julian, MP for Burnaby–New Westminster, believes that Canada's fresh water will once again be on the table.

The NDP has obtained a "concept paper" prepared by an American think-tank involved in the SPP. It emphasizes Canada's relative abundance of fresh water and proposes rewriting transboundary water­-management agreements for the North American continent. The author, Armand B. Peschard-Sverdrup, is director of the Mexico Project for the Washington, D.C. based Centre for Strategic & International Studies.

There is something wrong with our politicians - they are weak! Fuel Ghoul predicts that everyone living north of the border can now expect our water to enter into the same power struggles that characterize energy and softwood-lumber negotiations. "Decisions around forestry policy aren't made in Victoria or Ottawa, they're made in Washington" Peter Julian told Travis Lupick, "We could be seeing the same type of thing for water policy if the SPP continues."