Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It
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Re: Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It
#2> 80,945 against and 75 in favor
Life in a democracy?
Re: Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It
#3> 80,945 against and 75 in favor Life in a democracy?
We Americans like to claim we live in a republic and not a democracy, but we live in a broken republic too.
Re: Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It
#4> 80,945 against and 75 in favor Life in a democracy?
You can call a clod a cake, right? We don’t live in a democracy, we live in an indirectly federated republic. I’m this case a very badly corrupt one, run by plutocrats for longer than any of us have been alive.
We have killer propaganda though.
Re: Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It
#5> 80,945 against and 75 in favor Life in a democracy?
It sounds like these comments were misdirected, and should have gone towards policy makers, not an agency that proclaims to only enforce existing policy.
Re: Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It
#6Money talks.
Re: Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It
#7The Muskegon River (the main drainage for the area) has a discharge of 1,450 cubic feet per second at Evart, Michigan (where this facility is located). That is about 11,000 gallons per second, or about 937 million gallons per day.
The facility proposes to pump about half a millon gallons per day.
Tempest, meet teapot.
Re: Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It
#8> 80,945 against and 75 in favor Life in a democracy?
> We don't have the power to say no arbitrarily. We can't just say no for reasons that aren't attached to the law.
Seems like the residents need to direct their energy towards lawmakers.
Re: Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It
#9Re: Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It
#10> 80,945 against and 75 in favor Life in a democracy?
From the article:
>> But despite deep public opposition, the agency concluded that the company's plan met with legal standards.
I’ll take equal interpretation of the law over mob rule any day of the week.