Jerry Brown may challenge proposed McCloud water bottling plant

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State Attorney General Jerry Brown today warned Siskiyou County officials that they’ll face legal challenges if Nestle doesn’t address global warming in its plans to build a bottling plant in McCloud.

Citing environmental and global warming concerns in a letter to the Siskiyou County planning department, Brown said that Nestle Waters North America needs to revise its contract with the county to bottle water, even though the firm recently announced it would downsize its original plans.

“It takes massive quantities of oil to produce plastic water bottles and to ship them in diesel trucks across the United States,” Brown said in a statement. “Nestle will face swift legal challenge if it does not fully evaluate the environmental impact of diverting millions of gallons of spring water from the McCloud River into billions of plastic water bottles.”

Although Nestle recently publicly offered to reduce its annual water take to 195 million gallons of spring water per year — enough to fill 3.1 billion 8-ounce plastic bottles— the company has not yet agreed to change the terms of its contract with the McCloud Community Service District, Brown said.

http://www.redding.com/news/2008/jul/29/jerry-brown-may-challenge-proposed-mccloud-water-b/

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1. I don't understand why they don't convet to glass? It doesn't make sense..

They can have their bottles returned, washed, and re-use for much cheaper.. the one's that break, could be melted down and re-made into another glass bottle.. and we wouldn't have water with cancer agents associated with the bottles (phthalates).. I just don't understand..

[DCKit]

2. Glass only works for local distribution.

Trucking glass bottles all over the country for sale, then back again for washing and refilling would probably double the cost of the water - not that it's really worth anything to begin with.