Meeting planned on hotly debated Creston water bottling plant

KPAX TV Story

CRESTON -
A valley-wide community meeting is scheduled for next week to address concerns about a proposed water bottling plant in Creston

Local resident Lew Weaver is proposing plans to produce nearly 200-million gallons of bottled groundwater per year from the banks of the Flathead River.
Water for Flathead's Future is a grassroots organization opposing the plans for Weaver's Montana Artesian Water Company.

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http://www.kpax.com/story/34370059/meeting-planned-on-

Bottled water proposal collides with opposition in California community

A proposal to sell water for bottling stirs anger among residents in the San Bernardino Mountains. (Jan. 27, 2017) Richard Lui/The Desert Sun

 
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2017/01/27/bottled-water-proposal-collides-opposition-california-community/97158412/

Water For Flathead's Future will be sponsoring a public meeting concerning the proposed bottling plant at the Flathead high school 1 Feb 2017 at 7:00 pm. 

 

 See their web page below for more information.

 

http://www.waterforflatheadsfuture.org/ 

 

Thousands support Ontario government moratorium on new bottled water operations

TORONTO – Ontario will formally impose a two-year moratorium on new or expanded bottled water companies as of Jan. 1, 2017 after thousands of people expressed support for the ban.

 

http://globalnews.ca/news/3100756/wide-support-for-ontario-government-moratorium-on-new-or-expanded-bottled-water-operations/

Daily Interlake

OPINION: Egan Slough vote is warning to all in Flathead

 

" This decision represents a serious failure of representative, inclusive government for the neighborhood, the community, and the Flathead Valley"

January 08, 2017 at 5:00 am | By Richard H. Schaus

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20170108/ARTICLE/170109874/1181

Here’s why zoning is so important

By Bill and Nancy McGunagle

 

The county commissioners have unanimously concluded that the “rights” of just one property owner, no matter how deleterious his objectives, can overrule the objections of the majority.

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http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20161227/ARTICLE/161229840

Egan Slough landowners sue county

The Egan Slough Community has sued the Flathead County commissioners over their recent denial of a petition to expand a zoning district to include land where a water bottling plant is proposed near Creston.

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20161229/ARTICLE/161229845