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September 27th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, election, five million gallons of water, Ireland, largest bottling plant in North America, one million square feet, Steve Winter, Tethys, water agreement | Category: Grassroots Movements, News, United States, Washington | Anacortes, Wash.
A letter of request to the Anacortes City Council for a written termination of the Tethys Enterprises water agreement that would have resulted in a one-million-square-foot bottling plant–the largest in North America–entitled up to five million gallons of water per day. Tethys CEO Steve Winter withdrew from the agreement and moved to Ireland.
TO: Council Member Ryan Walters, Council Member Eric Johnson, Council Member Cynthia Richardson, Council Member Erica Pickett, Council Member Brad Adams, Council Member Brian […]
Continue reading Anacortes Election to Induce City Council Members to Terminate Water Agreement?
September 20th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, bottling plant, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Mayor Maxwell, Steve Winter, Tethys, Washington, Water Wars | Category: Community Rights, Grassroots Movements, News, United States, Washington | Anacortes American Wednesday, September 18, 2013 Tethys’ pullout draws mixed response BY KIMBERLY JACOBSON
Reactions are mixed to the announcement last week that Tethys Enterprises backed out of its plans for a bottling facility on the island.
Some residents were pleased the proposed 1-million-square-foot plant is off the table while others are lamenting the potential jobs lost. But all are looking to the future and how Anacortes could plan to best utilize the property — and how to attract a […]
Continue reading Tethys’ Pullout of Bottling Plant Draws Mixed Response
July 14th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, Anacortes economic development, bottled water, bottling plant jobs, Brian Geer, Dean Maxwell, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, election, largest bottling plant in North America, Laurie Gere, Mitch Everton, Skagit County, Skagit River, Tethys, Tethys Enterprises, Water Wars | Category: News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald Mount Vernon, Wash.
Friday, July 12, 2013
ANACORTES MAYOR
Anacortes mayor’s debate focuses on jobs, Tethys
By MARK STAYTON
ANACORTES — The four candidates for Anacortes’ mayoral seat offered their views on strategic planning, economic development and the Tethys water bottling plant proposal Thursday afternoon during their second debate leading up to the Aug. 6 primary election.
Hosted by the Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, the debate focused largely on how candidates Brian Geer, Mitch Everton, […]
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July 14th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, bottled water, bottling plant, CEO Steve Winter, Dale Pernula, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Gordon Derr, largest bottling plant in North America, rail traffic, Reservation Road, Sharon Dillon, Skagit County, Skagit County commissioners, Tesoro refinery, Tethys, water resources, Water Wars | Category: News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash. Wed., July 30, 2013 Anacortes land expansion to be reviewed
By KATE MARTIN
MOUNT VERNON — Anacortes’ proposal to expand its city boundaries to accommodate a beverage bottling plant has passed one of several administrative hurdles, despite reservations by one county commissioner. Skagit County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to review the city of Anacortes’ proposal, which includes incorporating and rezoning 11.2 acres southwest of the intersection of Reservation and Stevenson roads into the city’s […]
Continue reading Skagit County Advances Tethys Bottling Plant
May 2nd, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, bottling plant, CWSP, Cynthia Richardson, in-stream flow, PUD, Ross Barnes, Skagit County, Skagit County Coordinated Water System Plan, Skagit River, Tethys Enterprises, UGA Boundary, Washington water, water shortages, water treatment plant | Category: News, United States, Washington |
Skagit River
Despite city’s assurances, shortages loom in the future
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:41 PM
Reader Commentary, Anacortes American Wednesday, April 24, 2012
BY ROSS O. BARNES Anacortes, Wash.
The City of Anacortes’ 55 million gallons per day of continuous and 11 million gallons per day of interruptible Skagit River water rights are recognized as a principal water supply resource in Skagit County that will be increasingly called on to supply the future needs […]
Continue reading Despite City of Anacortes Assurances, Water Shortages Loom in the Future
May 2nd, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, largest bottling plant in North America, Sandra Spargo, Tethys Enterprises, Turners Bay Salmon Pocket Estuary | Category: Defending Water Newsletters, News, Resources, Rights of Nature, United States, Washington | Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin
By Sandra Spargo
Turners Bay Salmon Pocket Estuary
In 2009, a $671,000 grant was spent to restore the Turners Bay Salmon Pocket Estuary. Chinook salmon now have access to a nearly 60-acre tidal channel lagoon and marsh complex. The lagoon is located at the northeast end of Similk Bay, in the Whidbey Basin of Puget Sound, one of 12 pocket estuaries that had been identified as a high priority restoration site in […]
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March 7th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, bottled water, CEO Steve Winter, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Fidalgo Island, food-grade bottling plant, giant unit trains, Sandra Spargo, Skagit River, Tesoro Bakken shale oil, Tethys, UGA, urban growth area, Washington | Category: Defending Water Newsletters, News, Resources, United States, Washington | 
Defending Water in the Skagit Basin, an arm of Defending Water in Washington presents this March 2013 newsletter featuring a Tethys Enterprises Beverage Bottling Plant Site Update. We hope this information provides insight to the impact that the plant will have on Fidalgo Island and surrounding Skagit County Communities. […]
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Anacortes American, Feb. 27, 2013
Niabi Drew
Anacortes, Wash.
In response to the City Council and others’ injudicious resolve to continue moving forward with the Tethys proposal, I ask that we consider the following:
Water is Earth’s most vital resource. The next world war will be over water rights. Scientists have already predicted which countries will run out of water first and the mass exodus that will follow.
Can you imagine entire countries void of human life because there […]
Continue reading Our Water is Too Precious to Squander on Tethys’ Huge Bottling Plant
December 15th, 2012 | Tags: Anacortes, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Just Water Alliance, lawsuit, Sandra Spargo, Skagit County, Skagit River Basin, Swinomish | Category: Defending Water Media, Defending Water Newsletters, Events, International, Maine, Massachussetts, United States | Sandra Spargo, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Dec. 15, 2012
Please find below an article in the Skagit Valley Herald that is entitled, County suggests Swinomish dismiss its lawsuit. The Swinomish lawsuit (supported by the City of Anacortes without citizen input), if successful, could lead to all rural and agricultural landowners in the Skagit River Basin losing access to well water if they had drilled their well in 2001 or after, Ecology officials have said.
Moreover, if the […]
Continue reading Skagit County Suggests Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Dismisses Its [Water]Lawsuit
December 15th, 2012 | Tags: Anacortes, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Just Water Alliance, lawsuit, Sandra Spargo, Skagit County, Skagit River Basin, Swinomish | Category: Defending Water Media, Defending Water Newsletters, Events, International, Maine, Massachussetts, United States | Sandra Spargo, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Dec. 15, 2012
Please find below an article in the Skagit Valley Herald that is entitled, County suggests Swinomish dismiss its lawsuit. The Swinomish lawsuit (supported by the City of Anacortes without citizen input), if successful, could lead to all rural and agricultural landowners in the Skagit River Basin losing access to well water if they had drilled their well in 2001 or after, Ecology officials have said.
Moreover, if the […]
Continue reading Skagit County Suggests Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Dismisses Its [Water]Lawsuit
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