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November 3rd, 2011 | Category: Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed | Anacortes American, Sept. 28, 2011
Addressed to Mayor Dean Maxwell and the Anacortes City Council
Anacortes to Tethys: No Deal
There has been a lack of due process and due diligence on the part of Anacortes city government regarding its contract with the Tethys water bottling plant project.
Tethys is a negative proposition for good business in Anacortes. Records of other water bottling plants show that the number of jobs Tethys promises is not reliable. The actual number [...]
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November 3rd, 2011 | Category: Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed | Tethys Jobs and Wages
I question the assertion that the proposed Tethys bottling plant will employ 500 workers with an average wage of $48,000 and fringe benefits of 30 percent. These figures are substantially reduced from Tethys original estimate from a year ago of 1000 jobs with an average salary of $59,000. The Food and Water Watch organization stated that in 2006 there were 628 bottling plants in America that employed fewer than 15,000 people [...]
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November 3rd, 2011 | Category: Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed | Skagit Valley Herald
Jan. 12, 2011
The city of Anacortes and Tethys Enterprises signed a 30-year contract with two five-year renewal options to build a water-intensive industrial site that will swallow up to 5 million gallons of Skagit River water per day. Tethys will contract with outside companies to manufacture food and bottled water, sodas, teas and juices on a minimal 30-acre site in a 1 million square-foot building. Environmental questions remain unanswered, including plastic nurdles formed to contain food [...]
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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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