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March 28th, 2014 | Tags: billion plastic bottle water industry, American Beverage Association, bank sale of plastic water bottles, bottled water, coca cola, David Chiu, Joshua Arce, Pepsi Cola, plastic water bottles, Recology, San Francisco | Category: Events, Feature, Legal, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | MARCH 5, 2014 San Francisco Examiner JOSHUA SABATINI
Chiu addressing the media
Plastic containers will be forbidden to be sold on public property in move toward zero-waste goal
San Francisco became the first major city Tuesday to ban the sale of plastic water bottles on public property, building on a nationwide effort to curb the billion-dollar industry.
The nine-months-in-the-making proposal by Board of Supervisors President David Chiu navigated through a number of challenging issues, from the city’s drinking [...]
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February 2nd, 2014 | Tags: Advanced H2O, Advanced Refreshment, bottled water, Concrete, Jason Miller, LTI Inc., Niagara Bottling Company, Superior Spring, Wash. | Category: Feature, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | By Kimberly Cauvel | Jan. 28, 2014
CONCRETE — The town decided Monday to turn down Niagara Bottling’s interest in purchasing its pristine water, partly to protect the town’s ongoing relationship with another bottling company and partly because of a lack of detail in Niagara’s request.
An LTI Inc. driver fills two trailers with water from the town’s well in April 2011. LTI transports the water to Advanced H20 in Burlington for bottling. [...]
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October 7th, 2013 | Tags: 260 million litres, Aboriginal Rights & Title, BC Government, BC Water Act, BC's ground water, bottled water, Dan Fumano, First In Right, First In Time, First Nations, Hope BC, legislation crafted in 1909, local control of water, nestle, outdated water laws, WaterWealth Declaration | Category: Action Alerts, Community Rights, Feature, Nestlé, News, United States, Washington | The WaterWealth Project
Posted by Sheila Muxlow, Campaign Director 594.20wc on August 16, 2013 Despite the fact that Nestle never applied for a license to access the water and is draining the size of a small lake each year, they are not breaking the law. In fact Nestle’s operation is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to industries that are taking advantage of BC’s outdated water laws. Beyond bottled water, industries like mining, agriculture and natural [...]
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October 7th, 2013 | Tags: 1 million square-foot bolting plant, 5 million gallons of water per day, Anacortes, bottled water, CEO Steve Winter, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, governmental transparency, largest bottling plant in North America, Mayor Maxwell, rail lines, Steve Winter, terminates water contract with Anacortes, Tethys 30 acres of land, Tethys Enterprises, Tethys letter of termination, Washington bottling plant | Category: Feature, Grassroots Movements, Legal, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
Posted: Thursday, October 3, 2013 6:15 am | Updated: 1:38 pm, Thu Oct 3, 2013.
By Mark Stayton
ANACORTES — Tethys Enterprises recently terminated its water contract with Anacortes, cutting the last ties to a long and controversial project to build a 1 million square-foot bottling plant there.
Tethys notified Anacortes that it would stop pursuing the proposed plant on Sept. 9, Anacortes Mayor Dean Maxwell said previously.
In a letter dated Oct. 1 [...]
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October 7th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, bottled water, CEO Steve Winter, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Foster Pepper, largest in North America, Mayor Maxwell, one million square foot, Sandra Spargo, Skagit County, Skagit River, Tethys, Tethys termination, Washington, Washington bottling plant | Category: Feature, News, United States, Washington | Oct. 2, 2013
Anacortes, WA
Skagit County
Anacortes taxpayers paid $48,139.49 to Foster Pepper of Seattle to write the 2010 Tethys-City of Anacortes water agreement that contains no termination clause for either Tethys or the City of Anacortes.
Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin learned yesterday that Tethys Enterprises and Mayor Maxwell/Foster Pepper have been secretly negotiating the termination of the 2010 Water Agreement. Two Anacortes city council members learned about negotiations yesterday. Maxwell is yet to inform [...]
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July 14th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, bottled water, bottling plant, CEO Steve Winter, Dale Pernula, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Gordon Derr, largest bottling plant in North America, rail traffic, Reservation Road, Sharon Dillon, Skagit County, Skagit County commissioners, Tesoro refinery, Tethys, water resources, Water Wars | Category: Feature, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash. Wed., July 30, 2013 Anacortes land expansion to be reviewed
By KATE MARTIN
MOUNT VERNON — Anacortes’ proposal to expand its city boundaries to accommodate a beverage bottling plant has passed one of several administrative hurdles, despite reservations by one county commissioner. Skagit County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to review the city of Anacortes’ proposal, which includes incorporating and rezoning 11.2 acres southwest of the intersection of Reservation and Stevenson roads into the city’s [...]
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July 14th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, Anacortes economic development, bottled water, bottling plant jobs, Brian Geer, Dean Maxwell, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, election, largest bottling plant in North America, Laurie Gere, Mitch Everton, Skagit County, Skagit River, Tethys, Tethys Enterprises, Water Wars | Category: Feature, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald Mount Vernon, Wash.
Friday, July 12, 2013
ANACORTES MAYOR
Anacortes mayor’s debate focuses on jobs, Tethys
By MARK STAYTON
ANACORTES — The four candidates for Anacortes’ mayoral seat offered their views on strategic planning, economic development and the Tethys water bottling plant proposal Thursday afternoon during their second debate leading up to the Aug. 6 primary election.
Hosted by the Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, the debate focused largely on how candidates Brian Geer, Mitch Everton, [...]
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March 7th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, bottled water, CEO Steve Winter, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Fidalgo Island, food-grade bottling plant, giant unit trains, Sandra Spargo, Skagit River, Tesoro Bakken shale oil, Tethys, UGA, urban growth area, Washington | Category: Anacortes, Defending Water Newsletters, Feature, News, Resources, United States, Washington | 
Defending Water in the Skagit Basin, an arm of Defending Water in Washington presents this March 2013 newsletter featuring a Tethys Enterprises Beverage Bottling Plant Site Update. We hope this information provides insight to the impact that the plant will have on Fidalgo Island and surrounding Skagit County Communities. [...]
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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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October 17th, 2012 | Tags: blue communities, bottled water, Canada, Robyn Hamlyn | Category: California, Canada, Feature, International, Maine, Massachussetts, New Hampshire, New York, News, Oregon, United States, Washington | AlterNet/By Maude Barlow, published Sept. 6, 2012 We should be encouraging the youth in our society to do exactly what Robyn is doing — engaging in local politics, acting to protect the environment and questioning the world around her. In the last year, municipalities across Ontario and the rest of the country have begun taking a much-needed stand to protect local water sources. Since World Water Day in 2011, nine municipalities across Canada have become Blue [...]
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