Comments on: More on Nestle’s Proposed Cascade Locks Bottling Plant

By: Jere Evans

Jere Evans — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:48:14 +0000

Lol, not a single person arguing this as said how much WATER NESTLE IS INTENDING TO USE. 250 gal. per minute… from a spring that puts out 3,000 gal per minute, and this is just one of many springs in cascade locks. The average rainfall is over 70+ inches a year. And yet everyone talks about how much nestle depleted mcclouds resources and didnt give back to the community, even if nestle hires 0 locals for the job the 20 million in property taxes a year more than quintuple the entire towns tax revenue. All your arguments r of false bases, look at the real facts, this town is in desperate need of financial help because our own city administrator and mayor spend the towns money on paying city workers way to much money. and the only opponent that lives in this town isn’t even from here, shes only lived here 4 years and knows relatively nothing about the towns history, my great grandfather was mayor here 55 years ago, i have lived here almost my entire life, i work here and i am not unemployed, i do not work for the city because i am no longer related to anyone working their and they only hire family and friends, not people qualified for a job (which nestle will do because they r an EOE). Stop asking people that are not from here what they think, who cares, they don’t live here, we have more than enough water resources to handle a population of 10,000. which we don’t have the land to support that many people. In all reality if nestle really does try to screw us, even though I think the city has a well laid out plan to gain substantially, if nestle really does screw us, we will sue the crap out of them like very other city has had to do. Which is why our plan is so damn detailed to being with.

By: Charity Prater

Charity Prater — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:33:36 +0000

Sign the petition against Nestle’s intent to privatize water in the Pacific Northwest: http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1895.

By: TC

TC — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:07:23 +0000

Thoughtful, learned and a really low-quality troll. Fail.

By: greedy

greedy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:23:20 +0000

What the big deal the water if not bottled flows into the pacific ocean.

By: TC

TC — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:12:27 +0000

A lot of online software automatically sequesters comments containing large numbers of links (assuming its spam). Perhaps that’s what happened.

The discussion on the OregonLive.com site seems more robust, and given that none of us – unlike Nestle – can afford to advocate fulltime, I was focusing my time there.

Frankly, Cascade Locks already appears to be factionalized due to prior land use & business issues, so Nestle is going to have a field day there.

Given that a clear element of their playbook is to split towns into “us” vs “them” groups, they’re already halfway there.

By: Suz

Suz — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:56:51 +0000

I tried to post the following comment on the katu website. Could never get it to post as it always timed out. I wonder if they did not want many comments.

“Check out the posts at the blog stopnestlewater.com. They you can find out what Nestle does in small town America. Or watch the trailer at http://www.tappedthemovie.com. Read the preface to the book Water Follies. Read Bottlemania by Elizabeth Royte. See what has been happening in McCloud CA. Read the economic development report that was released on the impacts in McCloud. Here’s the link to the report, http://www.mccloudwatershedcouncil.org/docs/ECONRpt.pdf

And when the towns don’t agree, Nestles changes processes in the small town that have been in place for decades. Still no agreement, then Nestle sues, over and over and over again.

And don’t forget, Nestle Pure Life brand is a flavor profile from Pakistan. Nestle, no matter where they bottle it, strips out the minerals, and builds the flavor profile to that of the original brand.”