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February 19th, 2012 | Category: Features, News, Washington | Feb. 6, 2012
Associated Press GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK Disposable plastic water bottles soon won’t be sold at the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service announced Monday that it has approved a plan to eliminate the sale of the bottles within 30 days. The bottles make up about 20 percent of the Park’s waste and 30 percent of recyclables. Visitors can fill up reusable containers at water stations, though the ban does not keep them from bringing disposable bottles into [...]
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The 9th Annual Skagit Human Rights Festival March 2012 Whose Valley is it Anyway? Corporate Power or Community Power? March is Human Rights Month in Skagit County, and the Skagit Human Rights Festival has some great events planned to put relevant conversations on the community table. Lee Mann Exhibition–Art opening, Thurs., March 1, 5 p.m, Skagit Valley College multipurpose room. Letters and photos of longtime Skagit Valley human rights advocate Lee Mann on display. His son, Bryce Mann, to make the [...]
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Skagit Human Rights Festival 2012
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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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