Sucking the Country Dry!

[JackLuis]

Nestlé Just Gained Control Over This Town’s Water for the Next 45 Years

Tea Party Republican Governor Paul LePage of Maine helped Nestlé secure a contract that gives Poland Springs, a Nestlé subsidiary, permission to take the small town of Fryeburg’s groundwater for the next 25 years for their own profit. The deal could stretch to 45 years due to built-in extensions.

Today that deal was upheld by Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court, essentially cutting off activists’ last attempts to scuttle the deal.

There has never been a contract that ties up local water resources for such a long period of time in American history. Water activists worry that this could set a precedent for future corporate attempts to take water from rural towns for extended periods of time.

Maybe they should have done this in Flint?

 

[phrodeau]

Nestlé isn't even an American corporation. What has happened to conservative values?

 

[Boxlicker101]

The city of Los Angeles has been doing the same kind of thing for many years.

 

[Iceprincess12]

Chocolate water! It's Wonkaville come to life!

 

[Real_American17]

All they have to do is sabotage the plant and maybe assassinate a few executives/politicians.

 

[JackLuis]

Anti-Nestle ballot measure: Bid to block Cascade Locks water plant succeeds (election results)

Oregon rejects Water bottling plant! What next?

Hood River County voters have said yes to a measure that would effectively block Nestlé Waters' plan to bottle water in Cascade Locks by banning large water bottling operations in the county.

Partial returns Tuesday showed the measure winning with 68 percent of the vote.

The measure's backers celebrated with cheering and speeches in Hood River, while a Nestle spokesman expressed regret while noting "we respect the democratic process."

Nestlé for seven years has sought a way to bottle water from Oxbow Springs, which gurgles out of hillside just outside the Columbia River Gorge town of Cascade Locks.

The company hopes to build a $50 million bottling plant at the town's port, where 100 million gallons annually of Oxbow Springs water would be bottled under the Arrowhead brand. Additional Cascade Locks municipal water would be sold under the company's Pure Life brand.

Millions of plastic bottles will never be made!

 

[RUlookingup]

Chocolate water! It's Wonkaville come to life!

Sounds like a Ray Nagin campaign promise.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny---<-----that's me! The male half

Where we live are some of Americas largest and most active springs. Some are already being pumped dry by bottled water companies and dairy farms.
Thankfully public out cry has stopped more from taking Florida's ground water for now.

Let Nestle's ship water over here in container ships like everything else.

When will people realize fresh spring water is far better than water stored in crappy plastic bottles?

 

[Misshotndeep]

I saw the title of this thread and this was the first thing that popped into my head.

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/lewinsky.jpg?quality=75&strip=color&w=400

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

I saw the title of this thread and this was the first thing that popped into my head.

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/lewinsky.jpg?quality=75&strip=color&w=400

That never happened. Ask Hillary.

 

[Misshotndeep]

That never happened. Ask Hillary.

Facepalm. It was a joke... You were suppose to laugh.

 

[JackLuis]

Facepalm. It was a joke... You were suppose to laugh.

I smiled, does that count?