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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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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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September 27th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, election, five million gallons of water, Ireland, largest bottling plant in North America, one million square feet, Steve Winter, Tethys, water agreement | Category: Feature, Grassroots Movements, News, United States, Washington | Anacortes, Wash.
A letter of request to the Anacortes City Council for a written termination of the Tethys Enterprises water agreement that would have resulted in a one-million-square-foot bottling plant–the largest in North America–entitled up to five million gallons of water per day. Tethys CEO Steve Winter withdrew from the agreement and moved to Ireland.
TO: Council Member Ryan Walters, Council Member Eric Johnson, Council Member Cynthia Richardson, Council Member Erica Pickett, Council Member Brad Adams, Council Member Brian [...]
Continue reading Anacortes Election to Induce City Council Members to Terminate Water Agreement?
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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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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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
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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December 9th, 2012 | Tags: Anacortes, largest bottling plant in North America, Steve Winter, Tethys, Washington bottling plant | Category: Anacortes, California, Feature, Maine, News, Oregon, United States, Washington |
Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
Posted: Sunday, December 9, 2012 2:00 am
By Mark Stayton
Q: Could you start by telling me a little about yourself?
A: Sure. I graduated from Snohomish High School. My undergraduate degree is in electronic engineering — I went to DeVry University. I graduated from the University of Washington with an MBA. I’ve been in high tech industry for nearly my entire career, nearly 38 years. I left a company I worked for [...]
Continue reading Tethys CEO Steve Winter–the man behind the proposed bottled beverage manufacturing plant (the largest in North America)
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