California may sue to block Nestle bottled water plant

Although the bottled water banfest that gripped the country earlier that year has fizzled, the Attorney General in California is still committed to hunting down the plastic menace like the evil petroleum-based product it is. Attorney General Jerry Brown is threatening to sue Nestle Waters North America unless it calculates the global warming impact of a new project in the mountain town of McCloud.

You might think that the environmental problem would be the 200 million gallons of water Nestle wants to siphon out of the water supply, or the impact on the local ecosystem — but no. The AG wants to block the plant simply based on its potential emissions. Do water bottling facilities really create that much pollution?

Nestle representatives say that they’ve already

commissioned tests to examine the plant’s impact on water quality, air quality, climate change, and traffic. Now, Brown says the contract with the city must include input about the emissions released by manufacturing the bottles and shipping them to and from the McCloud factory. Otherwise he’s going to sue.

I’m not really certain what to compose of that. On the one hand, I’m not real crazy about bottled water. Still, I can’t buy into the argument that bottle water or plastic bags are the greatest threat to planet earth. Is the AG just trying to assemble a point? Or, does he really want to know how many tons of CO2 that factory produces? perhaps Brown’s posturing to take by The Governator’s job in 2010.

[Source] Josh Loposer

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