The Quality of Life Initiative group is made up of local area residents whose
adopted mission statement is as follows:

We are residents united in preserving our community

 quality of life for present and future generations,

       including water, air and natural resources to sustain

             a healthy and safe environment.We believe the people

living in our communities should democratically

                decide which impacts are acceptable to our communities.

 The Quality Of Life Initiative came into being after the first information 

meeting with representatives of Corridor Resources about the proposed

salt cavern natural gas storage project.

It  quickly seemed apparent that this meeting , held at the Southfield

United Church could simply be a lip service and  meant to provide no real

information.What was really alarming (and a hint of what was to come)

was the indifference to serious questions that were posed by the

residents in attendance.

  For example, after determining that this project would use vast amounts

of fresh water (much more than is currently being removed from the

Potash Company of Saskatchewan's Penobsquis site) the questions

arose: 

"What would make this project different?" and

"How are you going to protect our well water?"

Reminding the company of the dry wells of Penobsquis, and how those

people had been reassured that their water would not be disturbed,

the citizens were asking what would be different in the Salt Springs area.

The question was met with chuckles and elbow jabbing - but no answer.

The bulk of the information Corridor provided at the meeting was very

vague. Maybe the company was unprepared or the whole meeting was

merely a facade, a formality to meet the requirement of so many public

meetings before such a project is given the go-ahead.

  Neither scenario is very settling for the residents who were

trying to come to grips with the thoughts of gasoline products being stored

under their properties and their water sources being jeopardized. 

And so the Quality of Life Initiative was born, to ensure that the most

basic of all civil rights - clean fresh water , safety of residents and

property  and protection of our environment now and for the future

- remains the priority above profits for big business.