Nestlé sucking BC Dry
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- Published on Saturday, 11 July 2015 07:15
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A,
Nestlé can draw limitless amounts of water from BC for $2.25 per million litres to sell for a huge profit -- while British Columbians are asked to not water our lawns and take shorter showers.
And many of you agree that this has to stop. Four months after we launched a petition, it has grown to be the largest Canadian petition ever on our website -- over 175,000 of us have already signed the petition. And we are making waves with dozens of press mentions including the front page of The Province, one of BC's biggest newspapers and interviews with Global News and CBC this week. And thanks to these press hits, political parties are debating the policy.
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Friends,
As wildfires rage all over drought-stricken BC, the provincial government is still letting companies like Nestlé take water for $2.25 per million litres.
It is outrageous that Nestlé can draw limitless amounts of water from BC for $2.25 per million litres to sell for a huge profit while British Columbians are asked to not water our lawns and take shorter showers.
SumOfUs is planning a petition delivery and we are making a last drive to get as many signatures before take our message straight to the B.C. government. Here's that link -- please sign and share the petition: http://action.sumofus.org/a/bc-bottled-water/14/2/
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More information:
Outrage boils over as B.C. government plans to sell groundwater for $2.25 per million litres, The Province, Mar 9, 2015
Province raising prices but not ‘selling’ water with new rate schedule, Global News, July 8, 2015
Nestlé faces renewed criticism as B.C. drought continues, CBC, July 10, 2015
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