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LURC Needs to Protect Maine's Water

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Dear Editor:

LURC is in the process of rewriting its land-use policy, a document known as the CLUP (Comprehensive Land Use Plan).

Unfortunately, LURC's proposed draft inadequately addresses the growing, yet exploitative, practice of commerical water extraction. LURC governs the Unorganized Territories, a 10 million acre undeveloped landscape that sits over much of the state's water supply

LURC's lack of policy around this issue will only benefit corporate interests who would like to extract and ship the state's water supply to all corners of the globe. Those politicians and corporate businesses advocating for the East-West Highway and Security and Prosperity Partnership (a free-trade zone in Maine and the Maritime Provinces) are creating the infrastructure for this massive future depletion of Maine's water.

A former World-Bank vice-president said that the next world war would be over water. Fortune Magazine has reported that the global water industry is “the best sector for the next century. . . If you’re looking for a safe harbor in stocks, a place that promises steady, consistent returns well into the next century, try the ultimate un-Internet play: water.”

Let's face it. The conditions are ripe for profiting off of water. And LURC is setting a land-use policty that allows corporations to excessively profit off of this essential Maine resource.

LURC needs to create land-use policy that keeps water safe, accessible and affordable to everyone.
Ecosystems have the right to an intact and healthy hydrological cycle. Corporations do not have the right to extract our water, disrespect our environment and disrupt our communities. Water is Life! Water is a part of the Commons to be protected for all living things for all time!

Sincerely,

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