As Permitting Rules Loosen, Ontario’s Water Faces New Risk
Headwaters Community Coalition’s Jeanette McFarlane brings a ground-level urgency to one of the province's most consequential and least-covered policy failures. While governments across North America race to streamline development approvals, McFarlane argues that Ontario is dismantling the only oversight mechanisms standing between its most hydrologically sensitive land and irreversible aquifer contamination.