Dear Editor,
Your article quotes the farmer as saying they couldn't get a water license because the local aquifer is "considered an aquifer of concern."
If that is the case, I am again baffled by the CVRD's decision to grant a home occupation license to draw up to 10,000 litres of water A DAY from the aquifer for a commercial, for-profit enterprise, and by the Province's decision to grant a water license to that enterprise. Surely farmers who produce actual food should have priority when it comes to water licenses.
Why didn't the CVRD Councillors, Edwin Grieve and Richard Hardy, support our farmers in an age of increasing food insecurity, rather than a for-profit bulk water extraction business? I hope everyone remembers this betrayal of our local farmers when the next municipal election comes around.
Megan Ardyche
Courtenay
