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The Guardian December 5, 2019
by Tom Perkins
Michigan’s second-highest court has dealt a legal blow to Nestlé’s Ice Mountain water brand, ruling that the company’s commercial water-bottling operation is “not an essential public service” or a public water supply.
The court of appeals ruling is a victory for Osceola township, a small mid-Michigan town that blocked Nestlé from building a pumping station that doesn’t comply with its zoning laws. But the case could also throw […]
Continue reading Nestlé cannot claim bottled water is ‘essential public service’, court rules
November 27,2019
Center for Biological Diversity
Old-growth Forest East of Coos Bay Will Be Retained in Public Ownership
SALEM, Ore.— The Oregon Supreme Court today ruled that the sale of 788 acres of old-growth forest from the Elliott State Forest was illegal. The ruling affirms an Oregon Court of Appeals’ ruling from 2018, which found that selling the area known as East Hakki Ridge to a private […]
Continue reading Oregon Supreme Court Affirms Sale of Elliott State Forest Tract Is Illegal
by GEORGE WUERTHNER on NOVEMBER 22, 2019 · WILDLIFE NEWS
Fish and Wildlife Service
Deschutes River Habitat Conservation Plan comments
The following are comments on the Deschutes Basin Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) are submitted on behalf of Restore Our Deschutes (ROD). The main problem with the HCP is that its starting assumptions are backward. The plan is designed primarily to protect the economic interests of irrigators and only secondarily the […]
Continue reading Comments on Deschutes River Conservation Plan
BY PHIL FULLERTON, Retired Attorney
The Fresno Bee
NOVEMBER 22, 2019 10:30 AM
Central Valley agriculture faces a looming existential water crisis from the interlocking problems of drought, climate change, and falling underground water tables. Yet the potential answer to this problem is incredibly simple and only a lack of political will may defeat it. The solution is to send south to California the abundant waters of the Columbia River.
New ground water rules to take effect in […]
Continue reading EDITORIAL: San Joaquin Valley’s water solution? Look north to the mighty Columbia River ????
November 14, 2019 Kym Kemp Redheaded Blackbelt
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today upheld the senior water rights of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and other Tribes in an appeal by Baley v. United States. Baley and other Klamath Irrigation District farmers argued that the federal government took their water without compensation in 2001 when water deliveries were delayed in order to […]
Continue reading TODAY, US COURT OF APPEALS UPHELD SENIOR WATER RIGHTS OF TRIBES
By The Associated Press
By DAVID A. LIEB, MICHAEL CASEY and MICHELLE MINKOFF Associated Press
On a cold morning last March, Kenny Angel got a frantic knock on his door. Two workers from a utility company in northern Nebraska had come with a stark warning: Get out of your house.
Just a little over a quarter-mile upstream, the 92-year-old Spencer Dam was straining to contain the swollen, ice-covered […]
Continue reading Oregon dams among more than 1,600 at risk nationally, AP investigation finds
November 6th, 2019 | Category: Columbia River, Featured Posts, Groundwater, Legal, News, Oregon, Privatization, Protection, Surface Water, United States, Washington |
By
Evan Bush Seattle Times staff reporter
WINTHROP, Okanogan County — Follow the water and you’ll find the money.
That’s how it often works in the dusty rural corners of Washington, where a Wall Street-backed firm is staking an ambitious venture on the state’s water.
Crown Columbia Water Resources since 2017 has targeted the water rights of farms on tributaries of the mighty Columbia River.
This March, […]
Continue reading Wall Street spends millions to buy up Washington state water
October 29th, 2019 | Category: Bottled Water, Cascade Locks, Featured Posts, Legal, Maine, Nestlé, News, Oregon, Privatization, Protection, Rights of Nature, United States, Water Conservation |
The Guardian
by Tom Perkins
Tue 29 Oct 2019
The network of clear streams comprising California’s Strawberry Creek run down the side of a steep, rocky mountain in a national forest two hours east of Los Angeles. Last year Nestlé siphoned 45m gallons of pristine spring water from the creek and bottled it under the Arrowhead Water label.
Though it’s on federal land, […]
Continue reading The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America’s water to sell in plastic bottles
By GEORGE PLAVEN Capital Press
GRESHAM, Ore. — Faced with climate change, a growing population and aging infrastructure, the state of Oregon is reaching out to local communities for ideas to ensure clean and abundant water supplies over the next 100 years.
The Oregon Water Resources Commission has already adopted an Integrated Water Resources Strategy, which was last updated in 2017. It identifies 18 critical water issues and more than 50 recommendations for meeting the state’s water needs […]
Continue reading Communities weigh in on Oregon’s 100-year water vision
October 15th, 2019 | Category: Columbia River, Featured Posts, Grassroots Movements, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States, Washington |
Brett VandenHeuvel, Executive Director,Columbia Riverkeeper
bv@columbiariverkeeper.org
Today I stood on the Columbia’s shores at Celilo Park and watched history in the making. Yakama Nation, supported by Lummi Nation, announced a bold vision: a Columbia River teeming with salmon, a restored Celilo Falls, and a Pacific Northwest powered by clean energy that does not drive salmon and orca to extinction. Yakama Nation Chairman Jode Goudy stated: “The Columbia River dams were […]
Continue reading Yakama and Lummi Nations Call for Removal of Three Columbia River Dams
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