#14 Nestles Monopoly In order to sell and make money from water you have to own or lease the land to which its found. Nestle has contracts with various small towns for which they own water rights; these towns are often also small in capital and influence. Are we in the U.S. not thinking about the bigger picture? Nestles powerful army of scientists, PR consultants, lawyers and lobbyists allow them to stifle and suppress local opposition to its operations. In California, it took 6 years for the tiny town of McCloud to defeat Nestles plans to build a facility and take 1,250 gallons per minute of Mount Shasta spring water. Nestle then swiftly moved its plan to Sacramento with more success, ‘The Sacramento News and Review reported that Michelle Smira, one of the mayors top volunteer advisors, stepped down to run her consulting business, MMS Strategies. Guess who her big client was? That would be Nestle. Evidently she was hired by Nestle Waters to win the hearts and minds, and gain building permits for the controversial water bottling facility. Sacramento exists currently in a drought and residents are asked to conserve water, all-the-while Nestle by contract has no limit on how much water they can pump, theyre on a flat rate. The City Councilmember Kevin McCarty calculated their profits margin will be roughly 10,000 percent!
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 03:21:18 +0000
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