Nestle water plant? Not in our town, Enumclaw says
- added July 10, 2008
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- JanforGore
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Last spring, in the small town of Enumclaw, a company came calling. What it wanted was water. One hundred million gallons a year, to be precise.
It would pay nicely for the privilege. It would set up a bottling plant and provide jobs for the people. If only somebody, somewhere in Enumclaw, would listen to what Nestlé Waters North America had to say.
But it was not to be.
Last month, without so much as a public hearing, Enumclaw sent a message to the multinational corporation: Go tap someone else's spring.
In the past several years, as the bottled-water industry has boomed, Nestlé has set up 26 plants in towns across the country, tapping into local springs. Enumclaw was its first shot at a Northwest plant.
It did not go well. As word spread of the proposal, residents unleashed a torrent of e-mails and letters to the local paper, concerned about a possible water shortage, the potential for invasive corporate control and the damage plastic bottles can do to the environment.
"This is such an incredibly bad idea, I can't believe that the city of Enumclaw would even consider such a thing," one area resident, Diane Hanes, wrote to the city administrator. "The residents of Enumclaw will not stand for this."
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Yes!. People are pushing back to preserve their water resources from corporatization for profit. Hands off Nestle!
It would pay nicely for the privilege. It would set up a bottling plant and provide jobs for the people. If only somebody, somewhere in Enumclaw, would listen to what Nestlé Waters North America had to say.
But it was not to be.
Last month, without so much as a public hearing, Enumclaw sent a message to the multinational corporation: Go tap someone else's spring.
In the past several years, as the bottled-water industry has boomed, Nestlé has set up 26 plants in towns across the country, tapping into local springs. Enumclaw was its first shot at a Northwest plant.
It did not go well. As word spread of the proposal, residents unleashed a torrent of e-mails and letters to the local paper, concerned about a possible water shortage, the potential for invasive corporate control and the damage plastic bottles can do to the environment.
"This is such an incredibly bad idea, I can't believe that the city of Enumclaw would even consider such a thing," one area resident, Diane Hanes, wrote to the city administrator. "The residents of Enumclaw will not stand for this."
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Yes!. People are pushing back to preserve their water resources from corporatization for profit. Hands off Nestle!
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- JanforGore
- 1 month ago
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sweet, more places need to start protecting their local environments and water supplies. why pollute to bottle something that most people in this country have enough of from their tap? bottled water should be reserved for emergencies and for aid shipments to other countries.
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- spoonieday
- 1 month ago
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