SALEM, Ore. — Native Americans dressed in traditional garb came to the Oregon State Capitol on Wednesday to protest persistent attempts to bring a Nestle water bottling plant to an Oregon county that rejected the plan in a ballot measure in May. One protester is on a hunger strike. Although 69 percent of voters in Hood River County voted to ban commercial water bottling, 58 percent of voters in the city of Cascade Locks where the plant is planned voted in favor letting Nestle in, said Gordon Zimmerman, city manager of the community in the scenic Columbia River Gorge. Zimmerman told The Associated Press in an email that the city council “has directed staff to review the legal ramifications and remedies available to the City in order to continue the relationship with Nestle Waters North America.” Under the bottling plan, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife would swap with the city some water that comes from a spring that supplies a fish hatchery and goes into a creek that feeds into the Columbia River. The city would then sell that spring water to Nestle.
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ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press, The Columbian
Wed, 09/21/2016 - 7:47pm
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