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By Skye Kinkade Mount Shasta Area Newspapers Posted Nov 02, 2011 @ 10:15 AM Last update Nov 02, 2011 @ 02:21 PM
McCloud, Calif. — Now that a study on the Squaw Valley Creek watershed is complete, members of the McCloud Community Services District and California Trout hope they can keep some of its sensors up and running.
“If we can continue the study, we’d learn more about stream flow,” said Curtis Knight of Cal Trout. “The more information we have, [...]
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By HEATHER HACKING Staff Writer Posted: 11/08/2011 10:49:13 AM PST ORLAND – Plans for a Crystal Geyser Sparkling Water Company bottling plant in Orland have been withdrawn. The company had planned to build a facility at the edge of town, but faced opposition from many citizens who said it wasn’t a good fit for a variety of reasons. The most vocal opposition was from a group named Save Our Water Resources, which cited traffic, noise, groundwater quality, pollution and storm [...]
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Monday 22 March 2010 Tara Lohan | AlterNet
It took six years for residents of tiny McCloud, California, to give Nestle Waters North America its walking papers. The water bottler had hoped to build a 1 million square-foot facility in the town of less than 2,000 and was given a backroom 50-year contract (renewable for an additional 50 years) to annually take 1,250 gallons per minute of delicious spring water from the town, [...]
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November 24th, 2009 | Category: California, Legal, Nestlé, News, United States | Comments are closed Sacramento Press, Nov. 24, 2009
Save Our Water Sacramento filed an administrative appeal involving the Nestlé water-bottling plant on Monday, Nov. 23.
Davis attorney Don Mooney has agreed to take the case if the issue goes to court. Mooney represented McCloud residents in their six-year fight against a Nestlé Waters North America water-bottling plant near Mt. Shasta. The company abandoned plans for the plant in September.
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November 18th, 2009 | Category: California, Nestlé, News, United States | Comments are closed Part II- Nestlé at the City Council: Public Discussion or Backroom Deal? by Evan Tucker, Sacramento Press, November 18, 2009
Who is to Blame? Nestlé was recruited by the Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade Organization and the Economic Development Department, one of a series of bad projects they have brought here that include the municipal waste burning incinerator and the natural gas storage facility beneath homes in South Sacramento.
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November 18th, 2009 | Category: California, Nestlé, News, United States | Comments are closed Sacramento News & Review Editorial, Nov. 16, 2009
It wasn’t all that surprising when one of Mayor Kevin Johnson’s chief volunteer advisers, Michelle Smira, announced a few weeks back that she’d be leaving her city post to work on behalf of Johnson’s “strong mayor” campaign. Smira, who runs a public-relations business called MMS Strategies, sent her resignation to the mayor to formalize her decision, but she also wrote that she looks forward to working for Johnson again “at [...]
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November 2nd, 2009 | Category: California, Nestlé, News, United States | Comments are closed By Larry Meade, Sacramento Press, Nov. 2, 2009
Michelle Smira, a Republican strategist and consultant to mayor Kevin Johnson, resigned from her position on October 22.
In a recent interview to the Sacramento News & Review, Smira said that she was leaving her post as a volunteer advisor to focus her energy and attention to supporting Johnson’s Strong Mayor Initiative. However, Smira’s political affairs firm, MMS Strategies, was hired by Nestle Waters to assist in obtaining city support [...]
Continue reading Top (Sacramento) City Advisor Resigns To Work For Nestle
October 27th, 2009 | Category: California, Community Rights, Nestlé | Comments are closed
By Suzanne Hurt, Sacramento Press, October 26, 2009
A $14 million retrofit of a proposed Nestlé water-bottling plant has ground to a halt after the city of Sacramento issued a stop-work order while investigating whether the work began before the company had legal authorization from the city.
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October 22nd, 2009 | Category: California, Community Rights, Features, Maine, Nestlé, United States | Comments are closed By Moises Velasquez-Manoff, Christian Science Monitor, October 22, 2009
Towns around the U.S. fight firms that want to soak up a local resource.
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