Kim: I just talked to the Nestle rep about this in Cascade Locks where they’re planning to put a plant. He said they protected themselves against a lawsuit; they didn’t sue. He also said they’ve NEVER affected or dried up an aquifer. Do you have any research or newspaper articles about this that I can have better facts when they have another meeting?

Kim: He’s not telling the truth.

When Fryeburg’s planning commission met and overturned Nestle’s permit application (a 24/7 truck loading station is not a “low impact” use in a residentially zoned area), Nestle filed suit and four subsequent appeals (essentially all but the last).

In simple terms, the town said “no” and the whole group ended up in court under Nestle’s impetus – how is that not a lawsuit?

As for never affecting an aquifer, that’s absolute bullshit. In Mecosta County (MI), a judge said that Nestle’s pumping levels were harming a watershed, and Nestle did everything it could to avoid reduced pumping. Later, they attempted to alter the terms of the judge’s injunction to remove even more water, but were forced – because of real data from the MCWC – to settle on the first day of their trial… to remove less water, not more.

To find out what really happened in Mecosta, read Jim Olson’s excellent (and lengthy) Op-Ed piece.

In simplest terms, your Nestle rep is lying on both counts.

I just posted a new article about the MCSD and Nestle, and as you know, the litany of Nestle’s influence games in McCloud is a very, very long one. The interference in the 2006 election, the paid “consultants” and the legal bullying are just the tip of the iceberg, and it’s likely we’ll never actually know the extent of their meddling.

Others on the board thank me for the education, and then, go the same course that they previously have gone. I have sent them info about lawsuits in other parts of the country. The board is seemingly so mesmorized by the Nestle “slick snake oil salesman”, that they trust everything that he says, even when he states that the opposition, including me, have no factual information.

I can prove where, many times he has misled his “congregation”. No one on old the board, seemingly has changed their mind about wanting Nestle to come to McCloud.
Now, why do you think that would be? Nestle had contributed large money to the campaign of 3 of the board members.(This is in a town of around 700 full time residents.) Do you think that and the continued lunch dates , etc, for the board members has had any effect on the board members? I do! Follow the money!