Florida sells unlimited water-pumping rights in drought-stricken State Park

[madrchsod]

to Nestle for $230.....


"The State of Florida has given a Nestle bottling plant the right to pump as much water as it can get out Madison Blue Springs State Park, which is presently in drought conditions. The right lasts until 2018, and cost Nestle $230 in permit fees. Florida is presently in bitter dispute with its neighboring states over a region-wide water-shortage.
r a region-wide water-shortage."

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/10/florida-sells-unlimi.html
Florida sells unlimited water-pumping rights in drought-stricken State Park to Nestle for $230

[Clovis Sangrail]

1. I don't know why I'm constantly suprised by Fl

I live here now and I should know better than to be suprised by the heights to which stupidity can reach.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. We're completely fucked down here.

Right now, what I would do if I were president, is get Patrick Fitzgerald down here and give him the name of every person holding elected public office and just tell him to just round them up and put them in jail. Don't waste time. If they've been in office for six months, they're guilty of something.

[KG]

12. it's no accident the capitial is tucked away up in the middle of nowhere.

FL leads the nation in the way they've legalized and institutionalized political corruption.

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. It's time. It's time to clean house.

[ensho]

2. water is more valuable then gold

the greedy are buying it up, world wide.

keep an eye on your drinking water. Nestle has bought up some of Florida's.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. ty for this information

I just sent e-mail to the Mobile newspaper.
Considering the water wars among Al, Ga. and Fla. giving water away is insane.

btw.....this is happening in many places.
Companies like Nestle, Coke, pepsi are quietly buying up water rights so they can sell more bottled water.

[ensho]

4. good move - we have to protect our drinking water from the greed barons

nt

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10. But why are these rights even up for sale in public areas?

It's because there are corrupt people in office breaching their fiduciary responsibilities.

[Mojorabbit]

5. I am horrified at this. n/t

[gulfcoastliberal]

6. Our infrastructure and natural resources are all sold.

Get used to the idea of privatized water, air may not be too far behind.

[Triana]

7. FLORIDA Yet again!! WTF is the MATTER with Florida?

Are their brains fried by the heat?

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11. There is at least one major network that I know of in Central Florida

where the shakers of the state meet on a monthly basis, and the newspaper hasn't written one word about them in twenty five years. We are controlled by a shadow government, and most of the people who are part of it think it's funny how they screw the rest of us over. They think it's their right to do it.

[eShirl]

8. so who's getting the kick-back?

I assume there must be some kind of kick-back to this absurd "deal"

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. Here in Florida, they work in a quid pro quo - once removed.

For example, a city attorney is caught doing something fraudlent in a city, but that fraud is "business as usual," so he doesn't get disbarred. In other words, he was just caught doing what the pillars of the community asked him to do, and thus, only the homeowners were denied fair representation. Because of his connections, he doesn't get disbarred, but ends up being an attorney for a school district in the county next door.

From there, he is in position to suggest jobs for his cronies back in the last county. I'm not kidding, this actually happened. The school district needed some work done to mobile home classrooms, and the job was given to a commissioner crony of the attorney from the city he had been kicked out of.

They hop-skip from county to county to skirt the laws of "conflict of interest."