Environment

Arsenault states the Department of Environment is overseeing water and well issues through active engagement with farmers and watershed partners, emphasizing collaboration and departmental action to manage water levels and address high-capacity well requests rather than creating an independent arm's-length body.

Bevan-Baker calls for establishing an arm's-length, independent governance body to oversee approval of high-capacity wells on P.E.I., arguing the irrigation strategy promised such oversight and warning that without proper governance existing water-management work could be wasted.