Comments on: Nestle Wants McCloud’s Water and Most of Michigan’s Too… http://troutunderground.com/2006/12/07/nestle-wants-mcclouds-water-and-most-of-michigans-too/ Fly Fishing the Upper Sacramento River : Tom Chandler's Fly Fishing Life : Fly Rods are the Measure of Life Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:16:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Local Communities Battle Nesle For Water Rights | relax outside! http://troutunderground.com/2006/12/07/nestle-wants-mcclouds-water-and-most-of-michigans-too/comment-page-1/#comment-32800 Local Communities Battle Nesle For Water Rights | relax outside! Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:11:01 +0000 http://troutunderground.com/2006/12/07/nestle-wants-mcclouds-water-and-most-of-michigans-too/#comment-32800 [...] Nestle Wants McCloud?s Water and Most of Michigan?s Too? [...] [...] Nestle Wants McCloud?s Water and Most of Michigan?s Too? [...]

]]> By: Tom Chandler http://troutunderground.com/2006/12/07/nestle-wants-mcclouds-water-and-most-of-michigans-too/comment-page-1/#comment-9484 Tom Chandler Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:14:59 +0000 http://troutunderground.com/2006/12/07/nestle-wants-mcclouds-water-and-most-of-michigans-too/#comment-9484 The Nestle project is back on, though in the midst of a contentious environmental review. Stay tuned for more. The Nestle project is back on, though in the midst of a contentious environmental review.

Stay tuned for more.

]]> By: Nancy Patterson http://troutunderground.com/2006/12/07/nestle-wants-mcclouds-water-and-most-of-michigans-too/comment-page-1/#comment-9460 Nancy Patterson Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:50:25 +0000 http://troutunderground.com/2006/12/07/nestle-wants-mcclouds-water-and-most-of-michigans-too/#comment-9460 I am so glad to know you all are keeping an eye on this. I just watched the movie "Dead in the Water" directed by Neil Docherty and recommend it to anyone who is willing to see the consequences of the privatization of water. Not a pretty picture. I also saw a news show about your town and I strongly urge those who want to sign a deal with Nestle to know that they are not a great company. They used to deliver water to my home under the name of Arrowhead Water. Their customer service and billing is a mess, they could never get an order straight, which leads me to believe, the mess flows down from the top. Thank you, Nancy I am so glad to know you all are keeping an eye on this. I just watched the movie “Dead in the Water” directed by Neil Docherty and recommend it to anyone who is willing to see the consequences of the privatization of water. Not a pretty picture. I also saw a news show about your town and I strongly urge those who want to sign a deal with Nestle to know that they are not a great company. They used to deliver water to my home under the name of Arrowhead Water. Their customer service and billing is a mess, they could never get an order straight, which leads me to believe, the mess flows down from the top. Thank you, Nancy

]]> By: Tom Chandler http://troutunderground.com/2006/12/07/nestle-wants-mcclouds-water-and-most-of-michigans-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1726 Tom Chandler Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:51:22 +0000 http://troutunderground.com/2006/12/07/nestle-wants-mcclouds-water-and-most-of-michigans-too/#comment-1726 Brian; I should have been clearer. The CA Supreme Court threw out the McCloud water contract, but Nestle has bought the old mill site there and proposes to build a million-square foot bottling plant using the water rights granted to the old mill, which includes (I believe) water destined for Squaw Creek. Naturally, the Environmental Impact Report didn't evaluate the impacts on the watershed. Lovely. They will likely pursue a new deal with McCloud for the city's water supply, and to facilitate that deal, they financed three pro-Nestle candidates to the service district board (who make the decisions). Money always talks in these situations (and Nestle's had a fulltime propagandist water expert on the ground in McCloud for quite some time). In an obvious intimidation move, they also subpoenaed the personal financial records of everyone involved in several local environmental groups, but a judge threw that one out too. Every week the paper seemingly brings us news of the latest Nestle atrocity (lest we forget the prior one), and it's been a real textbook case of the kind of corporate imperialism I would have told you hardly ever happened in this day and age. Brian; I should have been clearer. The CA Supreme Court threw out the McCloud water contract, but Nestle has bought the old mill site there and proposes to build a million-square foot bottling plant using the water rights granted to the old mill, which includes (I believe) water destined for Squaw Creek.

Naturally, the Environmental Impact Report didn’t evaluate the impacts on the watershed. Lovely.

They will likely pursue a new deal with McCloud for the city’s water supply, and to facilitate that deal, they financed three pro-Nestle candidates to the service district board (who make the decisions).

Money always talks in these situations (and Nestle’s had a fulltime propagandist water expert on the ground in McCloud for quite some time).

In an obvious intimidation move, they also subpoenaed the personal financial records of everyone involved in several local environmental groups, but a judge threw that one out too.

Every week the paper seemingly brings us news of the latest Nestle atrocity (lest we forget the prior one), and it’s been a real textbook case of the kind of corporate imperialism I would have told you hardly ever happened in this day and age.

]]> By: Brian Murray http://troutunderground.com/2006/12/07/nestle-wants-mcclouds-water-and-most-of-michigans-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1725 Brian Murray Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:24:36 +0000 http://troutunderground.com/2006/12/07/nestle-wants-mcclouds-water-and-most-of-michigans-too/#comment-1725 So am to understand that the Nestle deal is dead, I read somewhrer that it was a go... ps. read your blog everyday...LOVE IT So am to understand that the Nestle deal is dead, I read somewhrer that it was a go…

ps. read your blog everyday…LOVE IT

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