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Fri, 09/25/2015 - 12:00am
Ballot initiative filed in Hood River County & Mt. Shasta residents organize against Crystal Geyser
On Wednesday evening in Hood River, the Local Water Alliance launched the Hood River County Water Protection Measure, a ballot initiative that would ban corporate water bottling facilities in the county.
A large crowd filled the Springhouse Cellar Winery to hear speakers, watch a video on the proposed Nestle plant in Cascade Locks made by local high school students and listen to live music.
KBOO news will have audio from the event next week.
But in the meantime, another community in the Pacific Northwest is fighting to regain control of their local water resource in the face of yet another multinational corporate takeover.
Mt. Shasta, a small town on I-5 about fifty miles south of the Oregon border, has been targeted for its water by Otsuka Holdings, a Japanese pharmaceutical corporation which owns the Crystal Geyser Water Company.
Crystal Geyser would follow in the steps of Dannon and then Coca Cola, which for ten years pumped billions of gallons of local water to fill single use plastic bottles for export around the world.
Earlier today, KBOO’s Paul Roland spoke with Vicky Gold of Water Flows Free, a Mt. Shasta resident who is helping organize an event tomorrow they are calling “Water: Every Drop Sacred” at the Mt. Shasta City Park.
http://www.localwateralliance.org/.
https://www.facebook.com/events/885213588216127/
A large crowd filled the Springhouse Cellar Winery to hear speakers, watch a video on the proposed Nestle plant in Cascade Locks made by local high school students and listen to live music.
KBOO news will have audio from the event next week.
But in the meantime, another community in the Pacific Northwest is fighting to regain control of their local water resource in the face of yet another multinational corporate takeover.
Mt. Shasta, a small town on I-5 about fifty miles south of the Oregon border, has been targeted for its water by Otsuka Holdings, a Japanese pharmaceutical corporation which owns the Crystal Geyser Water Company.
Crystal Geyser would follow in the steps of Dannon and then Coca Cola, which for ten years pumped billions of gallons of local water to fill single use plastic bottles for export around the world.
Earlier today, KBOO’s Paul Roland spoke with Vicky Gold of Water Flows Free, a Mt. Shasta resident who is helping organize an event tomorrow they are calling “Water: Every Drop Sacred” at the Mt. Shasta City Park.
http://www.localwateralliance.org/.
https://www.facebook.com/events/885213588216127/
- KBOO
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