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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 [...]
Continue reading Mayor Maxwell & Tethys Enterprises Secretly Negotiate
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 [...]
Continue reading Now is the Time to Rekindle Trust
September 20th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, bottling plant, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Mayor Maxwell, Steve Winter, Tethys, Washington, Water Wars | Category: Community Rights, Feature, Grassroots Movements, News, United States, Washington | Anacortes American Wednesday, September 18, 2013 Tethys’ pullout draws mixed response BY KIMBERLY JACOBSON
Reactions are mixed to the announcement last week that Tethys Enterprises backed out of its plans for a bottling facility on the island.
Some residents were pleased the proposed 1-million-square-foot plant is off the table while others are lamenting the potential jobs lost. But all are looking to the future and how Anacortes could plan to best utilize the property — and how to attract a [...]
Continue reading Tethys’ Pullout of Bottling Plant Draws Mixed Response
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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May 2nd, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, largest bottling plant in North America, Sandra Spargo, Tethys Enterprises, Turners Bay Salmon Pocket Estuary | Category: Defending Water Newsletters, Feature, News, Resources, Rights of Nature, United States, Washington | Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin By Sandra Spargo
Turners Bay Salmon Pocket Estuary
In 2009, a $671,000 grant was spent to restore the Turners Bay Salmon Pocket Estuary.
Chinook salmon now have access to a nearly 60-acre tidal channel estuary and marsh complex.
The estuary is located at the northeast end of Similk Bay, in the Whidbey Basin of Puget Sound, one of 12 pocket estuaries that had been identified as a high priority restoration site in [...]
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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. [...]
Continue reading Defending Water in the Skagit Basin March Newsletter
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 [...]
Continue reading Skagit County Suggests Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Dismisses Its [Water]Lawsuit
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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