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By Laura Bly, USA TODAY
Dec. 16, 2011
Barely a month after public outcry over news that a proposed ban on sales of disposable plastic water bottles in Grand Canyon National Park had been abruptly shelved following concerns by parks donor Coca-Cola, the ban is moving forward and could take effect in early 2012.
A National Park Service directive , issued Wednesday, will let parks halt plastic water bottle sales as long as a regional director signs off on [...]
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December 7th, 2011 | Category: Features, News, Washington | Anti-bottling plant group launches website
Whitney Pipkin | Posted: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 3:28 pm
ANACORTES — A group opposing a proposed bottling plant in Anacortes. called Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, has now launched a website. The site is linked to other Defending Water sites that have sprouted up in Oregon and Maine in opposition to similar projects.
The city of Anacortes signed a contract with Tethys Enterprises, Inc. in 2010 that gives the company rights to [...]
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November 15th, 2011 | Category: Features, Rights of Nature, Washington | November 9, 2011
Parks Chief Blocked Plan for Grand Canyon Bottle Ban
By FELICITY BARRINGER
Weary of plastic litter, Grand Canyon National Park officials were in the final stages of imposing a ban on the sale of disposable water bottles in the Grand Canyon late last year when the nation’s parks chief abruptly blocked the plan after conversations with Coca-Cola, a major donor to the National Park Foundation.
Stephen P. Martin, the architect of the plan and the [...]
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November 8th, 2011 | Category: Features, News, Report, Resources, Washington | Skagit County Planning and Development Services, Wash., released a climate change study on the Skagit River Basin. The Climate Impacts Group/University of Washington conducted the study for Envision Skagit 2060. The website includes links to the following:
Executive Summary Basin Overview Climate Variability Climate Change Scenarios Glaciers Hydrology Geomorphology Ecosystems Human Systems Complete Report
See http://www.skagitcounty.net/Common/asp/default.asp?d=EnvisionSkagit&c=General&P=reports.htm
September 30th, 2011 | Category: Features, Nestlé, News | Nestle® Pure Life® Purified Water partners with The Breast Cancer Research Foundation® To Support Breast Cancer Awareness by funding BCRF Research Grants with Special “Pink Pack” Retail Program.
What Nestle would rather you did not know, is that byproducts styrene and benzene released into the air from producing their plastic water bottles may cause cancer. In addition, Nestle admits to using BPA lined cans for their liquid baby formula, a plastic known to cause cancer.
for more info: <a href="http://www.allergystore.com/articles/water_3.htm [...]
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September 28th, 2011 | Category: Features, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed | Anacortes American
Sept. 28, 2011
Anacortes’ municipal water supply will be needed to address much of Skagit County’s predicted population growth of 100,000 by 2060. Tethys Enterprises’ consumption of five million gallons of water per day for a bottled water/beverage plant equals the same amount of water per day as 41,000 people at current rates of water consumption in our area.
Not only is the Skagit River our potable water source, it is a hydroelectric source [...]
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September 7th, 2011 | Category: Features, Nestlé, News, United States | Nestle’s new social media campaign makes buying flavored carbonated water sound as addictive as the next biggest drug. Calling it’s product, “Nature’s Fix,” the company wants consumers to get “hooked” on the product by succumbing to peer pressure from cute animals. At the rate Nestle charges for the water they practically steal from vulnerable communities, over 1000 times the cost of tap water, it does seem kind of like a drug. But it’s not, it’s water that all of us [...]
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August 24th, 2011 | Category: Audio, Features, Multimedia, Resources |
Speak Up, Speak Out radio host Jodie Buller talks with Sandra Spargo, of the citizen’s group Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin. Interview with Sanda Spargo (click Play icon to listen) The subject is the contract that the City of Anacortes signed with Tethys Enterprises to build what could become the largest bottled beverage plant in the U.S. The Tethys contract is for five million gallons of municipal Skagit River water per day and would involve 800 rail cars each day to transport materials and product. Sandra explains some of the context of the contract and citizen response and suggests an upcoming water summit to bring Skagit communities together to collectively decide what happens with the future of our water resources. [...]
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June 20th, 2011 | Category: Features, Maine, Nestlé, News, United States | Nestlé Waters CEO Kim Jeffery is eyeing a bottle production plant for the East Coast. Report: Nestle Waters plans new plant Nestle Waters North America reportedly is interested in building a $30 million bottling plant at an unspecified location on the East Coast, which could produce some 40 million bottles from recycled materials annually. Stamford-based Nestle Waters occupies a large section of supermarket shelves and convenience store coolers, with Poland Spring, Nestle Pure Life and Ice Mountain among its brands. [...]
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The Milford Daily News, June 12, 2011 FRAMINGHAM -Concerned about a 500 percent increase in water quality complaints, the state and town are monitoring Nestle’s Poland Spring bottling plant on Pennsylvania Avenue. State and town inspectors first visited the facility in April, looking for the cause of unpleasant taste, odor and sickness reported by some Poland Spring home and office delivery customers….. Stamford, Conn.-based Nestle Waters told officials they’ve noticed a sharp increase in complaints over the past year about [...]
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