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October 6th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, Bill Turner, bottling plant, Brad Adams, Brian Geer, citizen trust, city's business, Cynthia Richardson, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, election, Eric Johnson, Erica Pickett, largest bottling plant in North America, Mayor Maxwell, people's business, Ryan Walters, Sandra Spargo, Tethys, The Alliance for Democracy, Washington bottling plant, Water Wars | Category: Feature, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, United States, Washington | Sept. 28, 2013
Anacortes, Washington
Council Member Ryan Walters, Council Member Eric Johnson, Council Member Cynthia Richardson, Council Member Erica Pickett, Council Member Brad Adams, Council Member Brian Geer,Council Member Bill Turner
Dear Council Members:
The muddlement of the City of Anacortes-Tethys Enterprises water agreement stands for a city process gone wrong during this mayoral and city council election. Now is the time to rekindle citizen trust by voting to terminate the Tethys water agreement in writing.
The city [...]
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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: Feature, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, 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 [...]
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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
February 15th, 2013 | Tags: Bisphenol-A, bottles, BPA, chemcials, phthalates, plastic, polycarbonate, polymers, resins, stabilizers, toxic | Category: Feature, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, United States | Jennifer is a student at Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, Wash.
By Jennifer Fenswick
Here’s the Problem in a Nutshell
First things first; let’s take a look at plastic – what it is, how it’s made, and what it’s made of. Very simply put, plastic starts out as crude oil. The oil undergoes a process called “cracking” where the various hydrocarbons in the oil are separated. Polymers, stabilizers, resins, and a host of other chemicals, [...]
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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: California, Defending Water Newsletters, Feature, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, Maine, News, Oregon, Resources, United States, Washington | 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 [...]
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December 13th, 2012 | Tags: Anacortes, bottled water, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Everett, Mayor Ray Stephanson, Sandra Spargo, Skagit Valley, Steve Winter, Tethys, western United States, William Dietrich | Category: Anacortes, California, Defending Water Newsletters, Feature, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, Maine, Oregon, United States, Washington | Sandra Spargo, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Anacortes, Wash.
Dec. 12, 2012
Will Anacortes’ push for manufacturing jobs on Fidalgo Island take us back to the future, when mills of many kind lined the Anacortes waterfront in the 1900s? A town in-between by local author William Dietrich was published in the Seattle Times’ Pacific Northwest Magazine on Feb. 20, 2005. The article’s excerpts include the following: With its industrial legacy and recreational future, Anacortes remains confused about where [...]
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012, The Anacortes American Letters to the Editor Huge bottling plant threatens our quality of life How will one of the largest water bottling plants just off Highway 20 on Reservation Road help the people of Skagit Valley? The land will be located within the Anacortes city limits, gracing them with tax revenues. Jobs have been promised, though unlikely there will be many. This appears to be municipality business; after all, it is, or will be, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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