Ontario Stops Nestlé in its Tracks

+SumOfUs Larry, Huge news -- the government in Ontario, Canada just issued a moratorium to block Nestlé  from sucking up water from a small community experiencing drought conditions! Thanks  to tireless work from grassroots groups and with support from over 168,000 SumOfUs members  who spoke out, submitted public comments and donated to blanket the airwaves with radio ads,  corporate giant Nestlé has been stopped in its tracks.  But the fight to stop Nestlé from bullying local communities isn’t over. The state of Michigan is weeks away from deciding on a plan to charge Nestlé just $200  for a permit to double the amount of groundwater it can take to bottle and sell at a  massive profit. Residents in Evart, Michigan need your help to stand up to Nestlé once again. Tell the State of Michigan to say no to this massive corporate giveaway. Stop Nestlé now. Our original email from last month: Nestlé's at it again. This time, it  wants to suck up 100M gallons of  groundwater in a tiny U.S. town  for just $200. How can the government hand  over its water for pennies so a giant corporation can profit? Tell  the state of Michigan to reject  this ridiculous deal. SIGN THE PETITION Larry, Nestlé's about to lock down another massive corporate giveaway of precious fresh water -- unless we can pressure the U.S. state of Michigan to stand up to the water bottling behemoth. Only miles away from Flint, Michigan -- where the local government switched the water supply and poisoned the community's water to save a few bucks -- the Michigan water authority is considering letting Nestlé double the amount of groundwater it takes to bottle and sell for profit. The cost to Nestlé? $200 a year. Tell Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality to cancel this ridiculous plan. Residents are furious, and rightly so. Water should be a public resource, not sold off for  private profit.  Nestlé is already the largest owner of private water sources in Michigan, and the  water-guzzling corporation has deep ties to the Michigan Governor's office. Deb Muchmore,  the head spokesperson for Nestlé Michigan, is married to the Governor’s former chief of staff.  Perhaps we should stop wondering why Nestlé keeps getting so much from the state  government for so little. Luckily local water regulators haven't made a final decision yet, so we still have time to raise a  huge public outcry and pressure them to back down.  What's more, the pressure is working -- after residents raised alarms about the plan, the  Department of Environmental Quality promised to hold a public hearing and accept public  comments on the project.  No one fights Nestlé’s greedy water grabs like SumOfUs members. Just last summer, the  corporate giant was taking millions of gallons of water from Canada’s western water table for  pennies while wildfires threatened the entire coast. Hundreds of thousands of us stood up and  said: “NO!” We made front page news in Canada and got the government to commit to  review water rates. And we’ve helped do the same in California and in Oregon -- where the  tiny county of Hood River stopped Nestlé in its tracks. Tell the State of Michigan to say no to this massive corporate giveaway. Stop Nestlé now. Thanks for all that you do, Angus, Liz, Toni and the rest of the SumOfUs team  ********** More information:  Michigan residents deplore plan to let Nestlé pump water for next to nothing, The Guardian, Nov 5, 2016 DEQ pushes Nestle groundwater bid public review into next year, Michigan Live, Nov 22, 2016 SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in CA$3 or become a SumOfUs core member with a regular monthly donation. Set up a monthly donation Chip in CA$3 instead This email was sent to planetwatch1@yahoo.ca. | Unsubscribe