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Over 250 people packed the Waterville (ME) Opera House for the World Premiere of “Tapped” on Sunday, July 12. Stephanie Soechtig’s debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottle water.
Grassroots organizations from Fryeburg, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Wells, Shapleigh and Newfield celebrated before the film with the Tapped production team.
Photos – All photos copyright V. Kelly Bellis; can be freely used with proper credit. High-resolution pictures are available [...]
Continue reading Waterville (ME) Opera House packed for World Premiere of "Tapped"
June 2nd, 2009 | Category: Features, Fryeburg, Kingfield, Maine | Comments are closed SACO AND BIDDEFORD (June 1, 2009):
Robert Boilard said he feels the river, “which has taken a lot of beatings from the years back,” remains threatened and should be a top priority for state and local leaders. Any attempts by bottled water companies such as Poland Spring to draw more resources from the aquifer should be viewed with skepticism, he asserted, because tens of thousands of people already derive their drinking water supply from the Saco River aquifer.
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Continue reading Annual cleanup illustrates Saco River's fragile balance
April 20th, 2009 | Category: Features, Fryeburg, Maine | Comments are closed By Jackie Farwell, Mainebiz , 04/20/09
In 1845, when the Ricker family opened Maine’s renowned Poland Spring resort, the aquifer’s supposed healing properties drew sufferers of assorted maladies to “take the waters.” Hiram Ricker, the original landowner’s son, was convinced the spring water cured his chronic indigestion. Today, more than 160 years later, Poland Spring’s association with taking the waters has a whole new meaning.
As the bottled water producer, now under foreign ownership, expands its reach to [...]
Continue reading Tapping in: Poland Spring stirs up debate
April 19th, 2009 | Category: Features, Fryeburg, Maine, Portland | Comments are closed Portland Press Herald, Bill Nemitz, April 9, 2009
REBUTTAL #1 by David Gibson follows below REBUTTALS #2 & #3 by Tim Copeland and Steve Carroll were printed by the Portland Press Herald here. REBUTTALS #4 & #5 by Floyd Folsom and Jamilla El-Shafei were later printed by the Portland Press Herald here.
Listening to my basement sump pump hard at work the other day, I got to thinking. How many gallons a day, I [...]
Continue reading Enough water? Let's figure it out
April 15th, 2009 | Category: Features, Fryeburg, Maine, Shapleigh-Newfield | Comments are closed By Susan Meeker-Lowry, Culture Change
Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is. – Tao The King (Tao Te Ching), ch. 25
Have you noticed a shift in the dialog around climate change lately? There’s less talk of prevention, or even avoiding the worst of it, in favor of finding ways of adapting to [...]
Continue reading Earth Jurisprudence: Legal Rights for Gaia
March 20th, 2009 | Category: Features, Fryeburg, Maine | Comments are closed Read Martin & Barbara Britten’s excellent letter to the Editor. ————————————————————————-
MaineBiz March 20, 2009
The state’s highest court has ruled in favor of Poland Spring in a case over its efforts to build a water pumping station in Fryeburg.
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Continue reading Poland Spring wins Fryeburg court case
January 16th, 2009 | Category: Features, Fryeburg, Maine | Comments are closed By Trevor Maxwell, Portland Press Herald, January 14, 2009
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Four years after Poland Spring applied to build a water pumping station in Fryeburg, Maine’s highest court on Tuesday heard arguments from the water bottling giant and opponents who have prevented the project from moving forward.
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Continue reading Dispute in Fryeburg reaches Maine Supreme Court
November 25th, 2008 | Category: Audio, Features, Fryeburg, Maine, Photo, Portland | Comments are closed
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On Friday, November 14, 2008, Maine youth teamed with Native Forest Network and Defending Water for Life to protest a Portland law firm for its role in the commodification of Maine’s groundwater.
People from across Maine brought trash bags full of empty plastic water bottles to Pierce Atwood to demonstrate the physical ramifications of the corporate bottling industry for Maine’s landfills.
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Continue reading Protest at Portland, ME Law Firm
November 3rd, 2008 | Category: Events, Features, Fryeburg, Maine, United States | Western Maine Residents for Rural Living have incurred $60,000 of fair, result-based legal fees. Western Maine Residents have raised and paid $39,000 of these fees to date. We need help raising the additional funds of $21,000 to see this fight to the final court.
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Continue reading Urgent Appeal to cover Legal Costs in Maine
November 2nd, 2008 | Category: Features, Fryeburg, Maine | Comments are closed [...]
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