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August 05, 2008
California Bottled Water Plant Thwarted by Environmental Concerns
The State of California will challenge the environmental plan for a bottled water plant that Nestle Waters North America intends to build in Siskiyou County, unless the company changes its contract to pump water from the Squaw Valley Creek (pictured), a tributary of the McCloud River.
"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," California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr.
warned in a letter to the company July 28.
"It takes massive quantities of oil to produce plastic water bottles and to ship them in diesel trucks across the United States," Brown said.
"Nestle Waters is committed to ensuring that our projects are consistent with the sustainability and long-term availability of water in the communities in which we are located," said Nestle project manager Dave Palais.
The Attorney General Brown said the company's draft environmental impact report, DEIR, "fails to address in any meaningful way the project's likely environmental impacts."
"The DEIR fails to analyze the global warming impacts of the project even though boiling and transporting water are highly energy-intensive," wrote Brown. "Nor does the DEIR adequately examine the impacts of the project on air quality, water quality of the McCloud River and its tributaries, biological resources, or solid waste," as reported by the Environment News Service.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at August 5, 2008 01:54 PM
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