{"id":11080,"date":"2015-08-15T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11080"},"modified":"2015-08-15T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T14:35:00","slug":"forest-service-official-who-let-nestle-drain-california-water-now-works-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11080","title":{"rendered":"Forest Service Official Who Let Nestle Drain California Water Now Works For Them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forest Service Official Who Let Nestle Drain California Water Now Works For Them<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\"Nestle\"<\/a>An ongoing\u00a0investigation<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0The Desert Sun<\/em>\u00a0into Nestle\u2019s contentious bottled water operations in drought-stricken California first\u00a0disclosed<\/a>\u00a0that the company\u2019s permit to draw water had a rather astonishing expiration date that occurred over a quarter century ago, in 1988. Recently, the\u00a0Sun<\/em>reported an update in the investigation with a jaw-dropping twist: the Forest Service \u2014 not Nestle \u2014 is the agency primarily responsible for failing to renew Nestle\u2019s permit.<\/p>\n

In fact, judging by the government agency\u2019s complete inability to even review Nestle\u2019s long-expired permit \u2014 not to mention the lucrative job a retired Forest Service supervisor currently enjoys \u2014 there is an arguable case that collusion and corruption are at the heart of the entire issue.<\/p>\n

Forest Service officials shirked their duty to review the company\u2019s long-expired permit by conducting numerous meetings about what was needed t0 initiate necessary procedures \u2014 but never once followed through with a single proposition to completion. Even the basic legality of allowing a private company to use federal land for the extraction and bottling of water for profitable sale was once called into question by several officials.<\/p>\n

Letters<\/a>, emails, and meeting\u00a0notes<\/a>\u00a0clearly mark a number of instances where the review process and various studies of the environmental impact from continued collection of the spring water were initiated between 1999 and 2003 \u2014 but not followed up by any action. In fact, nothing in these documents offers definitive answers for the inexplicable lack of action on every aspect of the Arrowhead permit. Forest Service officials have given plenty of excuses \u2014 citing everything from a tight budget to limited staffing \u2014 for the reason other concerns were given priority.<\/p>\n

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Forest Service Official Who Let Nestle Drain California Water Now Works For Them An ongoing\u00a0investigation\u00a0by\u00a0The Desert Sun\u00a0into Nestle\u2019s contentious bottled water operations in drought-stricken California first\u00a0disclosed\u00a0that the company\u2019s permit to draw water had a rather astonishing expiration date that occurred over a quarter century ago, in 1988. Recently, the\u00a0Sunreported an update in the investigation with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8126,8127,101,1769,220,7283,1295,5209,866],"class_list":["post-11080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-activist-post","tag-bottled-water","tag-california","tag-corruption","tag-drought","tag-nestle","tag-revolving-door","tag-us-forest-service","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11081,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11080\/revisions\/11081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}