The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say someone made away with the liquid - enough to fill a tractor-trailer tanker - from a warehouse in the historic community of Port Union, Newfoundland. Icebergs are not to be underestimated. "It's just like a grape harvest for the wine industry." Each year, a stretch of water along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador known as Iceberg Alley provides passage to massive ancient slabs of ice that have broken free from more northern Arctic glaciers. "We only have one crack at doing an iceberg harvest a year," he said. Also, more ice than ever is calving off Greenland, responsible for one-third of the world’s rising sea levels associated with climate change.So we may marvel at 20,000-year-old pollution-free ice cubes clinking in our drinks. Solcon Secure Webmail. When it’s close enough, they drop anchor. If there were one, how would the thieves prove they had the real article? The water was intended for vodka production, said police.Iceberg water is valued for its purity, and used in premium spirits, cosmetic products – and even sold as a luxury bottled water, with cases of the bottles often selling for hundreds of dollars.The RCMP, Canada’s federal police force, announced the theft on Wednesday and said the water has a street value of between CAD $9,000 and $12,000 (£5,300 to £7,000).“As far as we know, so far, we’re looking at either a tanker truck or a tractor trailer,” constable Andy Renwick told CBC News.But an employee at an iceberg water company said the shipment would likely have been contaminated during the transfer, rendering it largely worthless. But Mr Meyers said Newfoundland's iceberg water industry is relatively small and that everyone knows each other. Bottled at source in Lewisporte, Newfoundland by local employees, ICEBERG Water is the purest, premium; prize winning water you will ever drink.Become part of our community and follow us on Facebook and Instagram!ICEBERG brings you Water sourced from the most pristine ice found along the Newfoundland coastline. Three arrests in multi-million dollar maple syrup theft Supreme Court of Canada won't hear appeal of Quebec maple syrup 'rebel' Vast iceberg looms over Canada's Newfoundland coast These are external links and will open in a new windowA Canadian vodka distiller has lost 30,000 litres of valuable iceberg water in what appears to be a heist. It’s also apparently worth stealing, which is what police say happened in the hamlet of Port Union this past winter.The chain of events leading up to the curious crime begins with Captain Ed Kean, 60, an eighth-generation mariner and the most renowned iceberg cowboy in Newfoundland. Each bite is one metric tonne of ice. The water is insured but the company is only able to harvest it in the spring from the ice giants that appear annually on Newfoundland and Labrador's coast along the famed "iceberg alley".
Overal en altijd toegang tot uw mail, bestanden, contacten en agenda. They crank a winch to pull the iceberg toward the barge. On board is a backhoe with a custom-made mechanical claw, which Kean controls from a swivel chair in the cab. Icebergs are so plentiful around these parts, we actually put them to good use. Or stare slack-jawed through camera lenses at the sight of gargantuan bergs. The vodka maker is out $12,000, and while the RCMP says the case is still open, the mystery has left head-scratching questions: Where is the market for stolen iceberg water? “Jesus, what are they going to do with it?” he said.Icebergs have been harvested for water for centuries. Specially equipped boats are required to lift the ice out of the sea and return it to shore for rinsing, melting, and bottling. This water's journey started over 15,000 years ago in the ancient glaciers of western Greenland. It is an all natural, truly virginal water with no traces of minerals. We worked with local artists on the design and production of a package that was able to represent nature and purity with an added touch of the coldness of the North. Each ICEBERG bottle is unique. Iceberg is the only national vodka that’s owned and produced entirely in Canada. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. You can drink it straight, as in Berg water, or in spirits like Iceberg Vodka, Gin, and Rum. Scan the QR code on your bottle and become part of the harvesting proces.It is clear that ICEBERG cares for nature. Harvested, blended, and bottled by Canadians, for Canadians. Iceberg Vodka CEO David Meyers says he is mystified as to who - or why - someone would have stolen the water. Only three months a year our very own Captain Ed is able to reach and harvest the naturally detached ice from the Arctic shelf as main ingredient for ICEBERG  Water. Mr Meyers said it would have taken "a bit of work" to have been able to access the tank and remove the water, which was secured behind a locked gate and door. We should use what Mother Nature has given us before it melts away into the salty ocean and causes an alteration to the patterns of the Gulf Stream and ultimately a rising sea level. “It goes crunch,” he says, “like chewing up cornflakes.”The bites then go into a crusher, which grinds the chunks into hockey-puck-sized pieces, which are then dumped into stainless steel holding tanks. Iceberg water is a unique soft water with a super low mineral content. This water’s journey started over 15,000 years ago in the ancient glaciers of western Greenland. Isolation has made its source totally inaccessible to man. And in what In down-home Newfoundland, however, iceberg ice has long been freely shared as a novelty and a sign of hospitality, whether in a red plastic cup with Screech rum and Coke, or at the bar in the Fogo Island Inn, where the rooms start at $1,975 per night.In the last two decades, though, icebergs have been marching past the province in alarming and unprecedented numbers.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson apologises to students and parents for the "distress" caused. in the Canadian Arctic, the earth’s most pure and untouched snow froze and compacted into enormous glacial walls, sheltered from all impurities from the outside world. - Excessive filtration and pumping of our water through miles of pipes and hoses are not required for processing.