[env-trinity] Urgent! Support Water for Weed Thursday March 10th ~WATER IS LIFE!!!

[Vicki Gold]

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>> From: Vicki Gold <victoria7 at snowcrest.net>
>> Subject: Urgent! Support Water for Weed Thursday March 10th ~WATER IS LIFE!!!
>> Date: March 7, 2016 6:56:02 PM PST
>> To: Vicki Gold <victoria7 at snowcrest.net>
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>> Hello Friends of Mount Shasta and Protectors of our Source Waters,
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>> You are requested to attend the Weed City Council Meeting on Thursday March 10th at 5:30 pm. City Hall 550 Main Street Weed. There will be a Rally for our Shasta water as a Public Trust from 3-5pm before the hearing. Bring your signs and warm clothing. The press will be invited. The important issue of water as a public trust~the commons will be addressed again and there will be an opportunity to comment on the very adverse proposal offered by Roseburg Forest Products. 
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>> This will be the 2nd reading of the Memorandum of Agreement between the City of Weed and Roseburg Forest Products (RFP) involving a $97,500 annual fee to supply 1.5 cubic feet/ second (less than the required municipal need of 2.0 cfs). We will be protesting the signing of any Memorandum of Agreement implying that the City and citizens admit that the Beaughan Springs water is owned by RFP!!!~Many of us feel that signing this contract jeopardizes the City in their future attempt to assert their legal water rights. 
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>> If there are not 3 votes to continue, and thus delay a decision for 2 additional weeks, (which we anticipate will not be the case), perhaps the City Council can at least add language asserting that there is nothing in the signing of this agreement that acknowledges that RFP actually has title to these water rights. The City Council must be aware of the many costs to the city and the county because of the truck traffic, damage to the roads, the sewer usage by both Crystal Geyser for 20 years and RFP for over 50 years. It is time for a reckoning. The citizens must not subsidize the extensive expenses and damage incurred by RFP and CG Roxanne's operations. This is corporate welfare, which a poor county and city cannot afford. All of Mount Shasta including the City of Mt. Shasta and the township of McCloud must take note. We have been here before with Nestle and Coca Cola.
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>> This is a complex issue.  If it is true that Crystal Geyser Roxanne approached the City of Weed in 1995-96 offering to represent the City in a suit under eminent domain in order to acquire the rights from RFP, then this is now indeed a very incestuous relationship among the two corporations and the City of Weed. Churchwell White (attorney Barbara Brenner as representative of RFP and of CG) now claims that the City has no rights . This defies logic. We encourage the City to consider investigating this further. Roseburg cannot have it both ways.
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>> Here is a draft of an article that may be published online next week:
>> Water privatization in Weed CA
>> At the base of Mount Shasta a poor community, having traded its resource rich timberlands for jobs for over 140 years, is now facing another issue~ this time control of its municipal and domestic water source by the same company, Roseburg Forest Products (RFP). When under ownership of Kenneth Ford there was a very benevolent and compatible relationship with the City of Weed. He would be turning over in his grave if he was aware of the sad situation that is now unfolding. We are sure he would be on the side of the citizens of Weed. The new management and ownership is clearly not as generous and compassionate as was their founder.
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>> This is a clear example of the extreme threat to a community when their water is not under public control. While Flint is an example of public control abandoned and gone awry, this is the exception. See links to articles covering the threat to the City by RFP. To further complicate the picture, Crystal Geyser Roxanne (French and Japanese Otsuka Pharmaceutical parent companies) cut a deal with RFP in 1996 for a large share of the water for bottling and shipping to Japan and the US. As the source springs diminished in flow in 2014 by 25%, CG was still rumored to be using 1.5 -2 million gallons per day as the citizens cut back drastically. The City of Weed wants to assert that they have legal water rights; we are especially concerned in light of the TPP. See links:
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>> From my research I discovered that in 1996 CG Roxanne offered to represent the City in exchange for access to 1.0 cfs of water for 200 years paying only $.00019 per gallon. That is a windfall! This is an echo of the same deal Nestle offered in McCloud. Apparently these water privatization companies think they are dealing with country bumpkins. Time to set things right. Here are the recent articles covering the Weed water crisis:
>> http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/article/20160303/NEWS/160309891
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>> http://www.mtshastanews.com/article/20160302/NEWS/160309917
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>> http://ijpr.org/post/weed-faces-water-woes#stream/2
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>> http://vp.telvue.com/preview?id=T01498&video=267132
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>> http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/article/20140825/News/140829843/?Start=1
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>> http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/article/20160223/NEWS/160229949/2025/NEWS
>> Please attend this important meeting:
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>> Mount Shasta is beaming energy to all of us to protect her water which must flow free. Come and support Weed on Thursday afternoon and evening.
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>> Always in Profound Gratitude for our Amazing Community,
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>> Vicki 
>> Water Flows Free
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