Nestlé Just Gained Control Over This Town’s Water for the Next 45 Years

[Snarkoleptic]

2. We are labor units and consumers, rather than citizens.

The commons are prizes to be plucked to benefit our corporate masters.

This part gets me really agitated-

“Our local municipal water supplier for Fryeburg, Maine, is run by a private company,” Sekera said. “So it’s not run by a municipality… [so] they can engage in contracts with corporations such as Nestlé much easier. It benefits their shareholders and Nestlé because it’s not publicly run and managed, which helps them get what they want.”

Maine has what’s called “absolute dominion” laws with respect to groundwater, which, as Sekera put it, “basically equates to whoever has the biggest straw wins. So you own the property, you own all the water mining rights under your property. And it doesn’t protect us from global water predators such as Nestlé.”