Battling the Bottler: some greenie outfit called Food and Water Watch is trying to block Nestle from building a 250,000 square-foot bottling facility in economically strapped Cascade Locks, Oregon. Aside from the fact that in their minds, the company is inherently evil, the outfit "thinks" Nestle will not deliver on some of its promises, including providing 50 new jobs to town residents and mitigating any negative environmental impacts from the facility. Further, they decry the "privatization" of "public water" supplies.
Of course, nothing of the sort would occur: Nestle simply proposes to bottle spring water, which the City of Cascade Locks would sell to them - just like any other customer. Had they been around at the time, there's little doubt that the outfit would've opposed Intel, Siltronics, and other high-volume water users around the Portland metro area.
Like all greenies, they know what's best - and what's best is keeping short-term construction jobs and long-term plant jobs out of pristine Cascade Locks. It's For Their Own Good™.
