Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.
The consultants lay out targets for three phases of moon mining: First, getting water from the ice in the moon’s craters, to be turned into hydrogen propellant. Water is cheap on Earth, but as expensive as anything else to send to space—thousands of dollars a litre. Mining water that’s already up there to use as fuel would improve the economics of space exploration and travel.
