{"id":478,"date":"2018-03-05T13:11:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T18:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/?p=478"},"modified":"2018-03-05T13:11:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T18:11:47","slug":"no-to-nestle-public-forum-wednesday-march-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/05\/no-to-nestle-public-forum-wednesday-march-14\/","title":{"rendered":"No to Nestle &#8211; Public Forum Wednesday, March 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"479\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/05\/no-to-nestle-public-forum-wednesday-march-14\/no-to-nestle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/No-to-Nestle.jpg?fit=570%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"570,380\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"No to Nestle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/No-to-Nestle.jpg?fit=570%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-479\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/No-to-Nestle.jpg?resize=570%2C380&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ANNOUNCEMENT<\/strong> <strong>\u2013 NO to Nestle Public Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 14,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>6:30 \u2013 9 pm at\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Central PA Institute of Science and Technology (CPI),\u00a0<\/strong><strong>540 N. Harrison Road, Pleasant Gap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nestle wants to extract a massive amount of groundwater per day from Spring Creek Watershed and build a plastic water bottling plant in either Spring or Benner Township.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned citizens have organized a public forum about the issues. Although Nestle has been investigating this water source for years, they and the Spring Creek Water Authority waited until it was a done deal to make it public.<\/p>\n<p>Small towns all over the country have experienced Nestle\u2019s predatory behavior and have had to fight back, often at great expense (Osceola, MI; Fryeburg, ME; San Bernardino National Forest, CA; Hood River County, OR; Kunkletown, PA). See the link below about Kunkletown, PA\u2019s battle against Nestle.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Nestle has announced a Nestle-sponsored public meeting for Monday, March 12 at CPI.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve only got time for one meeting next week, come to the Wednesday, March 14 forum organized by locals, where your voice will be heard and the truth will be spoken.<\/p>\n<p>Please bring your questions, concerns and your reusable water bottle!<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by the Sierra Club Moshannon Group and Nittany Valley Environmental Coalition.\u00a0Participants include ClearWater Conservancy and Food and Water Watch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/35780-nestle-is-trying-to-break-us-a-pennsylvania-town-fights-predatory-water-extraction\">Nestl\u00e9 Is Trying to Break Us\u201d: A Pennsylvania Town Fights Predatory Water Extraction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/breaking\/mc-nestle-ends-spring-project-eldred-township-20160609-story.html\">Nestle abandons Poconos spring water project amid opposition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\/campaign\/take-back-tap\">Take Back the Tap<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNOUNCEMENT \u2013 NO to Nestle Public Forum Wednesday, March 14,\u00a06:30 \u2013 9 pm at\u00a0Central PA Institute of Science and Technology (CPI),\u00a0540 N. Harrison Road, Pleasant Gap Nestle wants to extract a massive amount of groundwater per day from Spring Creek Watershed and build a plastic water bottling plant in either Spring or Benner Township. Concerned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/05\/no-to-nestle-public-forum-wednesday-march-14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No to Nestle &#8211; Public Forum Wednesday, March 14&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NLTc-7I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nittanyvalley-eco.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}