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Mar 28 2012
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Local Coalition Protests Decision Regarding Public's Water. |
At a press conference today, [3/27/12] Bark and Food and Water Watch, members of the Keep Nestle Out of the Gorge Coalition, announced that they are appealing the Oregon Water Resources Department's (OWRD) approval of permit applications that move Nestle' one key step closer to bottling Oregon's water. Read More | Video from Press Conference | bark-out.orgPictured: The spring Nestle wants to bottle for profit
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Oct 11 2011
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Video: Privatizing Portland's Water Supply |
Excerpt from the Portland Public Access program, "A Growing Concern." Guests discuss ongoing attempts by local government to privatize Portland's water supply. Excellent power point presentation detailing how this is being foisted on the public.
Privatizing Portland's Water Supply
For More Information:Citizens for Portland's Water | Friends of Bull Run Water Facebook Page | Privatizing Portland's Water Supply
Privatizing Portland's Water Supply
For More Information:Citizens for Portland's Water | Friends of Bull Run Water Facebook Page | Privatizing Portland's Water Supply
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Dec 29 2010
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What will we do while our water is destroyed for future generations and all other life? |
The other night I attended the Gas Land screening and talk with film maker Josh Fox, and Senator Antoine Thompson. The movie shows ecological devastation from the industrial process of hydro-fracking. Some highlights were: death by brain tumors, complete ecocide of streams, hair loss of animals (cats, horses) from the water, lighting tap water on fire, nose bleeds from methane leaks, unsafe levels of benzene, nitrogen oxides, and tourelene in the air and water, violent explosions in all aspects of the drilling and extraction process, vomiting, headaches, stomachaches, unexplainable serious illness, indiscriminate dumping into our limited water ways of a cocktail of 596+ chemicals, deregulation of the industry by the government, a Senate hearing in which industry representatives denied all adverse effects, skillful double talk by the Department of Environmental Protection in Pennsylvania and finally the acknowledgement of the benefits for the few on top of the multi billion dollar gas industry. read more
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Sep 21 2010
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Opportunity To Tell the Oregon Water Resources Department to stop Nestle! |
The Oregon Water Resources Department is considering a water transfer application for a water exchange that would effectively allow Nestl? to access water coming out of Mt. Hood National Forest and bottle it.
This is another significant step forward in Nestl?'s plan to profit off of Oregon's clean drinking water sources in the town of Cascade Locks in the Columbia River Gorge. The Oregon Water Resources Department has the power to stop this transfer and could effectively shut down Nestl?'s plan's to bottle Oregon's water.
They are accepting public comments now. Please take action by September 30th by using this action tool.
Enter your zip code to continue on and send a message to the Director telling them Oregonians don't want Nestle profiting from our water!
Bark Website
This is another significant step forward in Nestl?'s plan to profit off of Oregon's clean drinking water sources in the town of Cascade Locks in the Columbia River Gorge. The Oregon Water Resources Department has the power to stop this transfer and could effectively shut down Nestl?'s plan's to bottle Oregon's water.
They are accepting public comments now. Please take action by September 30th by using this action tool.
Enter your zip code to continue on and send a message to the Director telling them Oregonians don't want Nestle profiting from our water!
Bark Website
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Sep 09 2010
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WATER IS LIFE: Flagstaff City Council Votes No Drinking Water for Snowmaking / Stuggle NOT Yet Over |
Flagstaff, AZ – After 4 hours of meeting, the Flagstaff City Council voted 5-2 to not amend a proposed substitute agreement to sell 180 million gallons of Flagstaff's drinking water to Arizona Snowbowl for snowmaking on the Holy San Francisco Peaks. More than 150 concerned community members attended the Council meeting including Tribal representatives from Hopi, Navajo and Havasupai Nations. The deal was initially presented as a "less offensive" option for Tribes who hold the San Francisco Peaks holy, but overwhelmingly the Tribes opposed the plan. Read More
Past Coverage: AZ Snowbowl plans to destroy the northern Arizona environment & desecrate sacred sites | March, Rally & Vigil to be held in Phoenix, AZ against AZ Snowlbowl desecration of sacred land | Related: Chris Francisco on The Longest Walk 3, Portland to DC
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Jun 15 2010
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Mining in el Salvador |
Salvadoran community rejects mining in the department of Cabañas, because it would contaminate the water sources in that community. Pacific Rim mine company sues el Salvador for 77 million dollars based on the free trade agreement
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Apr 01 2010
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Keep Nestle Out of the Columbia Gorge |
On Monday, March 29, 2010, Keep Nestle Out of the Gorge, a coalition of environmental and social justice organizations led by the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch, launched a coordinated campaign to prevent Nestle Waters North America from opening a water bottling facility in Cascade Locks.
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Mar 12 2010
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Desalination and the Alternatives: It's Up to the Community |
Santa Cruz Water Department and Soquel Creek Water District have embarked on a plan for a desalination plant, a highly energy intensive way to increase the water supply. The greenhouse gases that such a plant would produce have inspired opposition. A forum on Thursday, March 18th at Live Oak Elementary School features Bill Kocher from the Santa Cruz Water Department and Debbie Cook, former mayor of Huntington Beach, and author of "Desalination, Energy Down the Drain."
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Jan 18 2010
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Video: Bark Hike To Proposed Nestle Bottling Plant |
Currently, Nestle is proposing a new bottling plant in the town of Cascade Locks on the Columbia River, capturing the pristine water of Oxbow Springs. This video is from the January 2010 Bark Field Trip to the proposed Nestle bottling site.
Hike is led by Loriann Burd of the forest advocacy group Bark and Julia DeGraw, of Food and Water Watch
Food and Water Watch Fact Sheet
24 minute Video Of Bark Hike
Sign the petition!
Article from the Bark Site
Bottling a hundred million gallons annually, Nestle is seeking to turn a profit on our most valuable public resource.
Hike is led by Loriann Burd of the forest advocacy group Bark and Julia DeGraw, of Food and Water Watch
Food and Water Watch Fact Sheet
24 minute Video Of Bark Hike
Sign the petition!
Article from the Bark Site
Bottling a hundred million gallons annually, Nestle is seeking to turn a profit on our most valuable public resource.
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Dec 30 2009
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Mother Jones Article Promotes Corporate Agribusiness Astroturfing |
A poorly researched article on California water, the "New Dust Bowl," is online and appeared in the November-December edition of Mother Jones magazine, a publication known for its investigative reporting. Dan Bacher, an Indybay contributor and editor for Fish Sniffer, critiques the article, stating, "The 'New Dust Bowl' sounds just like a headline from the Sean Hannity Show or Fox 'News' - and the article reads like a propaganda piece for growers on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley."
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Nov 19 2009
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Industrial Foam found in Bedford County Creek: Natural Gas Production Contamination Suspected |
Foam has been found in Scheaffer Creek, a tributary of the Juniata River watershed which supplies Pennsylvania's capital. Springs and ponds downhill from Spectra Energy's drilling pads first showed the foam weeks ago. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has not tested for specific chemicals associated with natural gas drilling, and is telling residents that the foam is only laundry soap. Residents are worried that the cancer causing chemical 2-BE is present in their drinking water supplies.
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Nov 17 2009
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Traditional Native Leaders: Hydrofracking must be banned |
Albany, NY—The Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force (HETF), the environmental branch of the traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) government, issued a statement on November 5th calling on New York State to ban the permitting of natural gas drilling. The statement by the Haudenosaunee leaders vowed to exert their treaty rights to ban any hydrofracking on or near their aboriginal territory, and cited threats posed by the proposed drilling not only within the New York City watershed but to clean water around the region, including the Great Lakes which contain a fourth of all potable fresh water in the world.
Additional Information: ShaleShock.org—Shaleshock Citizens Action Alliance | Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force | Onondaga Nation: People of the Hills | Hydraulic-Fracturing | Hydrofracking: Bradford, PA | Make your voice heard on Nov. 19th—Public Hearing | LISTEN: Voices of Dimock | Ruckus Society Training: Learn Important Skills for Gas Activism! | Drilling 101 | The problems with gas drilling | What about the water? | DEC extends shale comment period | Shale drilling concerns evolve | Learning the natural-gas drill | Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement on the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program Related: The Indypendent Issue 142: Our Water At Risk
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Nov 08 2009
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The Indypendent Issue 142: Our Water At Risk |
Plans for natural gas drilling in New York State have been widely criticized as dangerous and environmentally irresponsible. Now, the proposal for drilling in the state has come to a head. Jessica Lee reports, “For more than a year, a swelling movement of landowners, politicians, individuals and environmental organizations has been pressuring New York State to strongly regulate — or even ban — a natural gas drilling process that could wreak havoc on the environment.”
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Aug 29 2009
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Poised to Steal Sacramento's Water, Nestle Moves to Sacramento |
On July 26, with a brief back page article, the Sacramento Bee broke the story that Nestle Waters is coming to Sacramento. A glowing article in the Business Journal and a critical article in the News and Review followed, and then the story was mostly forgotten.
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Aug 15 2009
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Mountaintop Removal Protested At EPA |
On August 14, opponents of mountaintop removal coal mining, some with stories of their own families and lands being harmed by this practice gathered at the EPA's headquarters to demand that that the EPA stop approving these utterly destructive mines. West Virginia residents told shocking stories of family members sickened with cancer and other diseases from the poisoned water these mines left behind. Read More, Pics & Audio