It is long past time to raise wages…!They are about starving the poor to provide corporate welfare.
https://thepeaceresource.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/raise-the-minimum-wage-now/
Enough is too much! This is not about chocolate! NESTLE STEALS PUBLIC WATER!
- Enough is too much! This is not about chocolate!
Privatizing Public Resources for Corporate Profit is Wrong!~~I found a corporate sponsored version of long-suffereing Nestle….
“the world’s largest food and beverage company has hung on for six years, enduring legal challenges and public protests as it awaits state permits that would allow it to bottle and sell spring water now owned by the state government. Opponents warn against privatizing a public resource for corporate profits.”
…kinda like Faulkner, endure survive and prevail..
~~But beyond the corporate bottom line, in the real world,
the Company has been tapping public resources for years…
often flat-out stealing the water then overcharging to give it
back. Nice deal if you can bribe your way into it.” as the drought has worsened, Nestle’s Nestle Waters North Americas Inc division – the largest bottled water company in the country – has continued to pump water from an aquifer near Palm Springs, California, thanks to its partnership with the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. Their joint venture, bottling water from a spring on land owned by the band in Millard Canyon, has another advantage: since the Morongo are considered a sovereign nation, no one needs to report exactly how much water is being drawn from the aquifer.
In the Canadian province of British Columbia, Nestle has been using another loophole. Until this year, British Columbia didn’t have rules that required the company to report how much it drew from the province’s aquifers – or pay a penny to the government’s coffers in exchange for the resource.”
http://www.theguardian.com/…/water-nestle-drink-charge…
Sounds like Nestle needs to return excess profits they raked in by stealing the water, bypassing the public and tapping the source.
In North America today, Nestlé water takings for its bottle water products are emerging as a controversial issue. In 2003, it is estimated that Nestlé Waters
“withdrew” a total of 1,862,486,080 gallons
[or 7,050,254,807 liters ] for its bottlewater production
in the US alone.Since Nestlé takes all of its bottle water from spring
water, the company claims that it does not “collect
as much as the spring can safelysupport.”
Yet, rising demand for bottle water compelled Nestlé
to double its production capacity between 1999 and 2002. And, sinceNestlé companies use boreholes to tap water from springs, more water is withdrawn than the natural flow of the spring.”Unlike other industries such as forestry, mining,
oil and gas, the bottled water companies are not
“obligated” to pay a fee or tax on the extraction
{theft} of the resource in most jurisdictions.”Click to access 2007_Nestles_Water_Wars.pdf
Despicable. And it is past time for them to pay their dues.
They need to pay for what they took and be cut off from the source.NESTLES’ THIEVES AND LIARS
STOLE PUBLIC WATER AND
NOW THEY HAVE DUES TO PAY!Nestle needs to pay some dues for the damage done.
Water Communities Speak Out:Nestle, Stop Stealing Our Water
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