While Nestlé Waters has succeeded in their efforts to secure approval in Chaffee County for their water extraction and loading facility, the news hasn’t been uniformly good for the company this year. An attempt to establish an ordinance favorable to water mining in the town of Wells (you really can’t make this stuff up) apparently met with opposition and eventual defeat.
Activists in the communities which surround the Branch Brook Aquifer, located in the southern part of the state handily defeated a water extraction ordinance on a referendum vote in the town of Wells. The ordinance, written under the direction of the Nestle Corporate lawyers, would have opened the door to large scale bottled water extractors. The vote was 3,194 against large scale extraction and 1,420 for, a 69.2% margin!!! This was a stunning defeat for the corporation who was ousted from McCloud, California and in Shapleigh and Newfield, Maine this year.
Read the post, check out a series of articles on the same issue, or read up on the history of Nestlé activity in Maine. Hat tip to Lum Pennington.
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