US Forest Service investigates expired Nestle water permit

[IDemo]

Source: abc7news.com

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- The U.S. Forest Service is investigating an expired permit that Nestle has been using to draw water out of a national forest in Southern California for its bottled water business.

An investigation by the Desert Sun found that Nestle Waters North America's permit to transport water across the San Bernardino National Forest expired in 1988. The water is piped across the national forest and loaded on trucks to a plant where it is bottled as Arrowhead 100 percent Mountain Spring Water.

"Since this issue was raised and I became aware of how long that permit has been expired, I have made it a priority to work on this reissuance project," San Bernardino National Forest Supervisor Jody Noiron told the newspaper Friday.

The process of renewing the permit requires an environmental review, which can take between 18 months to more than two years to complete.

Read more: http://abc7news.com/food/us-forest-service-investigates-expired-nestle-water-permit/650966/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. 1988? Wow, someone wasn't paying attention, or something else was going on.

Shut those bastards down. And keep them shut down.

K&R

[cstanleytech]

14. That or more likely someone was paying someone off not to pay attention. nt

[avaistheone1]

19. Holy smokus! That is a lot of not paying attention!!

[tazkcmo]

2. No problem.

I'm sure the re-issuance will take no time at all as corporate profits are threatened.

[IDemo]

6. Exactly n/t

[salib]

3. The reissuance process!?!?

What about the cease and desist process?

[Omaha Steve]

13. I agree

[arcane1]

4. What????

*deep breaths*

[joanbarnes]

5. So they owe CA 27 years' worth of water?

[turbinetree]

7. You

would think that a business would have a moral obligation that if they had a an expired permit they would have come forward and say lets take care of this back in 1989, because they were after all taking water from OUR---------- National Forest.

[enough]

8. A "moral obligation?" A concept foreign to corporate personages. (nt)

[Snarkoleptic]

10. Well, the CEO seems like a nice guy who would put doing the right thing ahead of profits.

[turbinetree]

20. Great piece

I just wonder if someone where to privatize the air that he breaths and sells it to him as a food stuff what would he say------but, but---great piece

[Enthusiast]

9. Boycott Nestles!

Hear me?

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[Geronimoe]

11. Human life and helath has no value

Human life and health has no value. This seems to be his message. Water to him has no value unless everyone has to pay for it.

[Sunlei]

12. so they bottle city water at city rates and resell for a nice profit & billions of plastic bottles.

National Forrest permit management did not do their job or that's a 'good old boy corruption" exposed for all to see.

make them change to glass deposit, reusable bottles and a cut of those massive profits or the deposit collections to the state.

[SCVDem]

15. HELLO!!!

We are in a drought emergency!

Ask the Rethug fucktards what they are going to do to solve an imminent crisis.

Fuck the e mails and Benghazi.

Answer real world questions!

[chapdrum]

16. This has "Rogue Corporation"

written all over it. Not that Jerry Brown will likely do anything about it. Have been calling his office almost every day, to politely ask whether he will politely ask Nestle' to get the f*ck out of California. Nestle' has a long-standing tradition of flouting the law.

[leanforward]

17. Corporations are Individuals :-(

Taking up that argument, then they cut 25%, the same as every individual in the state. Why hasn't the permit been renewed? Where where were the stewards of our public lands? Likewise, every farmer in the delta takes a cut. The water restrictions are for the public good. Everybody east of the California state line will be impacted. Water is becoming a precious commodity.

[JDPriestly]

18. If Nestle wants the water to sell, let it pay Southern California and the frederal government

for the cost of replacing the water that would otherwise flow into our groundwater and supplement our public water supply. We do not have water to sell in bottles in Southern California. Nestle needs to find an area of the country with a surplus of water from which to mine the water it bottles and sells to us. What cheek!

In addition to the effect of the lack of water on us humans and on the plants around us, the lack of water is a great danger to our wildlife.

The other day, I walked at an Arrroyo -- a tiny creek -- not far from my house. My grandson noticed ducks walking in the trickle, just maybe a narrow flow of a couple of inches of water. There was not enough water for them to swim, and as they walked they lapped up what water was there. Not a fish or any other living creature that they could eat in sight.

Our wildlife will suffer terribly this year. It is only April, and our streams have barely a trickle of water in them.

I can't offer a solution, but I do want to draw your attention to this aspect of the drought that many may not have considered. The drought will mean death for many wild animals, I fear.