(Saint John Mayor Ivan Court)
(File Photo)
Mayor Ivan Court is speaking out against anyone using a motorised boat in the Loch Lomond watershed which provides drinking water to most of the people who live in the city.
Provincial Environment Minister Margaret Ann Blaney says motorised boating on the watershed will be banned when the current exemptions expire in November of next year.
Councillor Patty Higgins suspects most of the boaters live outside the watershed area.
Mayor Court claims lives will be jeopardized if the supply of drinking water is contaminated and he characterizes this situation as being more serious than a bit of silt being stirred up which prompted the last boil water order.
He also points out the town of Rothesay has requested in the past not to allow an industry to locate close to its water source and the city complied.
