Following up on the Nestle Exit with Wellington Water Watchers. Weboinair happening soon. <div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1593792674246"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1593792674398">Lulu <br id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1593792630615"><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>----- Forwarded message -----</div> <div><b>From:</b> "Wellington Water Watchers" <info@wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca></div> <div><b>To:</b> "Louisette Lanteigne" <water.lulu@yahoo.ca></div> <div style="display:"none""><b>Cc:</b> </div> <div><b>Sent:</b> Fri., 3 Jul. 2020 at 8:00 a.m.</div> <div><b>Subject:</b> Nestlé sells to Ice Rivers Springs - forced into strategic retreat</div> </div> <div id="yiv9285408405">
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<p>Nestlé announced in a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://wellingtonwaterwatchers.nationbuilder.com/r?u=7EL176YFyxKF3ox3wD2rUa69bhRZ0DmSIft45V8tbF1SRaN38Rxta7-9F8R4lg2CNkbMvgOvx_rs_QxC9gfqTf7VqJn5HF-w8eYADrG6Ui_JkmlOMJLddVkeCFanSVtL3YstyRHN12XLzdSQDKSWoAXC590Rn9gtXw80s39wo7Ey-xxT1AXFk9CTnHrM-_Q2CRICu-gNS91K95Q4pdPgZA&e=a63f584a59a0d87ccf92e3e3b4edd7e4&utm_source=wellingtonwaterwatchers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=all_eyes_on_nestle&n=1">press
release yesterday</a> the sale of their operations in Wellington
County and Hope BC to Ice River.<span> </span>The deal is “contingent
on completion of the regulatory review process and the deal is
expected to close in Q3 2020”.</p>
<p>Josh Rubin in this <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://wellingtonwaterwatchers.nationbuilder.com/r?u=oXUvZpSRbX0fPVPxRvBOt8lARNiLt3iY7WKnQgij1lSDXoH5ItPdNLUnMKnGGGPwgcYelHnVvT1L1qsQvs1MI0VvpUhKf1b0d71fJ5GN_Fzx4wQ-KOGbmPBeJUguO31PtuJNibHWPZNHqjCIfgvJAb1ACoazwqjA3C92YvxJ8Qs&e=a63f584a59a0d87ccf92e3e3b4edd7e4&utm_source=wellingtonwaterwatchers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=all_eyes_on_nestle&n=2">article
in the Toronto Star</a> clarifies that “Nestlé Pure Life water will
continue to be sold in Canada, though it will be produced by Ice River
Springs”.</p>
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<p><strong>So first the good news! </strong></p>
<p>This is a strategic retreat forced upon Nestlé by the sustained
pressure of you and all the people in Ontario who believe water is for
life, not profit.<span> </span>Nestlé’s production in Wellington
County fell by 40%, partly in response to falling market demand.
Nestlé’s official comment that this was a ‘business decision based on
growth ambitions’ does not contradict the fact that their market share
declined.</p>
<p>We know it is your persistent opposition to Nestlé’s bottled water
and the boycott of their product that contributed to this result.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Sign up here for “All Eyes On
Nestle - Is This Really Goodbye?” A webinar 7pm Monday July 13 to
discuss the implications of this decision and next steps in the Say No
To Nestlé campaign</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Nestlé wants to create the impression it is leaving
Ontario, but is it really saying goodbye?</strong></p>
<p>Nestlé has used before the maneuver of selling the bottling
business and keeping the brand in order to defuse public pressure. It
is significant that Nestlé appears to be licencing their Pure Life
Brand to Ice River Springs. (The details of the final agreement would
reveal if Nestlé is taking an ownership position in Ice River
Springs). In any event Nestlé still plans on making profit on water it
extracts in Wellington County.</p>
<p>Franklin Frederick, (Brazilian writer and political activist) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://wellingtonwaterwatchers.nationbuilder.com/r?u=kiAH4XgvZ4UI8MP6hBXCJxFFHZwXa4VaJqUim_7cGkdWF8ABggoLcYf1SszjAAJM5eSSYLR-cLy4QX0xnCLkATlC1geeVmSDh8zdQR824AkquWEHZILJeVhYMGWZeeVnOtDGfksiznsHRcVdHTYorw&e=a63f584a59a0d87ccf92e3e3b4edd7e4&utm_source=wellingtonwaterwatchers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=all_eyes_on_nestle&n=5">describes
here</a> how Nestlé sold its Brazilian water brands to Brazilian
companies in order to distance itself from a successful international
pressure campaign.</p>
<p>Nestlé has a very strategic and lucrative partnership with the
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SADC). This relationship
is vulnerable to pressure from international campaigns – generated by
events like the All Eyes On Nestlé event in Guelph in November 2019.
This event brought together activists from Canada, Six Nations, US,
Switzerland and Brazil. (A follow up international conference was
planned for Switzerland on World Water Day in March of this year – and
was postponed by the spread of the coronavirus). This kind of
international grass roots pressure endangers Nestlé’s critical
relationship with the Swiss government.</p>
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<p><strong>What have we won?</strong></p>
<p>The defeat of a multi-national corporation is rarely achieved with
a satisfying ‘bang’. More often it is with a ‘whimper’ like this –
announcement of a ‘strategic re-focus’ or the quiet sell-off of
controversial assets. The last thing CEOs of multi-national
corporations want to do is admit that pressure from social movements
is forcing them to abandon profitable activities.</p>
<p><strong>But make no mistake Nestlé’s decision to sell to Ice River
is a direct consequence of sustained public opposition to the
environmental damage caused by their water taking and plastic
pollution. </strong></p>
<p>The many actions of individuals like you and the collective efforts
of Wellington Water Watchers, Council of Canadians, Environmental
Defence, Six Nations of the Grand River, and many other organizations
delivered this result.</p>
<p>You should feel proud of your contribution! <span> </span>If this
were a sport – then the final match has not been played. But you can
be sure this is a major victory – some might even say an upset
win!</p>
<p>We are not done yet. Nestlé has not yet made the decision to
completely leave Ontario. <span> </span>But they have been shown the
door – and we need to push them all the way out.</p>
<p>The root issue is that Ontario should not permit the extraction and
sale of water for profit. When the Ontario government makes that
decision, we will finally be rid of Nestlé’s water profiteering.</p>
<p>The final chapter of this story is not yet written.
<span> </span>Public pressure forced the Liberal government to impose
a moratorium on new permits to take water for bottling in 2016. This
was a significant disruption to Nestlé’s planned expansion. Nestlé’s
announcement today is a further retreat.</p>
<p>We must maintain our demand that the Ford government stop giving
out permits to bottle water in Ontario. Together we can ensure water
is for life, not profit</p>
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<p>Arlene Slocombe,</p>
<p>Executive Director</p>
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