From the Globe & Mail July 23, 2009
“Last February, the town of Shapleigh, Maine, population 2,326, passed an unusual ordinance,” The Boston Globe reports. “Shapleigh sought to protect its aquifers from Nestle Corp., which draws heavily on the region for its Poland Spring bottled water…[The town] tried something new – a move at once humble in its method and audacious in its ambition. At a town meeting, residents voted, 114-66, to endow all the town’s natural assets with legal rights: ‘Natural communities and ecosystems possess inalienable rights to exist, flourish and naturally evolve within the Town of Shapleigh.’ It further decreed that any town resident had ‘standing’ to seek relief for damages caused to nature – permitting, for example, a lawsuit on behalf of a stream.”
Dump Site 41 in Tiny Township on Georgian Bay might consider this too.
See also, Michel Serres: The Natural Contract
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