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Town Bans Bottled Water Sales
thebostonchannel.com ^ | 04/26/2011 | n/a

Posted on 04/26/2011 10:53:28 AM PDT by massmike

The town of Concord has banned the sale of bottled drinking water in town beginning in 2011.

"We only have one planet and I just don't want to see it spoiled," said Jean Hill, who introduced the measure at Concord's Town Meeting.

Hill said that New York, Illinois and Virginia, as well as more than 100 cities, have taken action to cut spending on bottled water.

The measured passed by Concord would allow the sale of refillable containers of water, which could still be sold and delivered in town. Only plastic bottles that companies cannot reuse would be banned.

"Water is something we can get from the faucet. You can't turn your faucet on and get soda," said Selectwoman Virginia McIntyre, explaining why other plastic bottles would not be banned.

The ban on plastic water bottle sales may be largely symbolic. Town officials aren't sure they have the power to enact the ban without approval from the state.

(Excerpt) Read more at thebostonchannel.com ...


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To: Windflier
The lefty enviro wackos just need to go ahead and off themselves

Then I might be impressed.

21 posted on 04/26/2011 11:14:33 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
"The lefty enviro wackos just need to go ahead and off themselves." Then I might be impressed.

I'd also be be impressed if they all sent their paychecks to Washington. For the good of the country, of course.

22 posted on 04/26/2011 11:16:59 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: massmike

Well that does it.

Ives’ “Concord Sonata” is out of my repertoire.

Permanently

(...didn’t much care for the dissonant clangorous thing, anyway.)


23 posted on 04/26/2011 11:17:21 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (One of these days, Alice....one of these days.....POW!! Right in the kisser!!!!)
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To: massmike
Wait, did it actually take effect or not? Article was from May of 2010

But last July:
article

>>In April [2010], Concord residents voted to ban the sale of bottled water in their town, but a top aide to Attorney General Martha Coakley said yesterday that her office could not issue a ruling on the policy as written, in effect killing the ban before its scheduled implementation in January.

24 posted on 04/26/2011 11:20:10 AM PDT by raccoonradio (..)
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To: FatherofFive

“Liberals. They take lead out of paint but put mercury into your light bulbs. “

Another great T shirt slogan


25 posted on 04/26/2011 11:20:45 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Yes We Can, have smaller government)
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To: massmike

I have a weird strategy involving Bottled water.

I sometimes drink a energy drink that has an easily removable label and a pretty bottle.

I have been saving the bottles and washing them out, then I refill them with cold cold tap water and add a drop of food coloring and place them above my cabinet as “decoration”. This is my “extreme emergency water supply” it also helps mediate the temperature of my house since the volume of the water is several gallons so far.

If the “Water NAZIs” come for my “Hoarded reserves” I will explain that his is for “decoration and recycling” and they should leave it alone and I can drink the colored water when they take away my bottled reserves.

Call me paranoid, but I can see in time of extreme emergency being labeled a hoarder by the government and shot by it’s goons. I want to hide a supply of things “in plain sight” as trying to hide things will cause them to get raided as possibly get you shot.


26 posted on 04/26/2011 11:22:35 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: raccoonradio
Though she (the now 83 yr old woman) is trying again this year, apparently: >> http://concordconserves.org/concord-resident-brings-her-bottled-water-ban-back-town-meeting 02/03/11
Eighty-three-year-old Jean Hill has spent the last three years fool-proofing a petition article to ban bottled water from being sold in Concord. This year, Hill will bring forth her new and improved idea in a warrant article to Town Meeting.
27 posted on 04/26/2011 11:23:35 AM PDT by raccoonradio (..)
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To: massmike

In a similar, bone-headed move, rather than cut any payroll as part of balancing their budget, they relied on unplugging street lights! Actually, they ended up letting people “sponsor” their street lights so that they wouldn’t go dark.


28 posted on 04/26/2011 11:26:04 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: massmike
Nevermind the fact that the entire Boston area and its neighboring townships are one big superfund site for chemcial groundwater contamination. Remember "A Civil Action," which was a true story concerning "leukemia clusters" in the Aberjonah river/Woburn area?


29 posted on 04/26/2011 11:26:19 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: raccoonradio; massmike

Concord Town Meeting began last night. Another attempt to ban bottled water

http://concord.patch.com/articles/town-meeting-begins-tonight

(Yesterday) With school vacation week now at an end, it’s time for many residents to get back to work and work they shall at tonight’s Town Meeting. Articles will officially be heard at 7 p.m. tonight at Concord Carlisle High School. Officials have also mapped out time on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (all at 7 p.m.), as well as May 2 and 3. However, new Town Moderator Eric Van Loon stated his belief that Town Meeting will be completed within three nights.

While a bottled water bylaw and a petition to restore streetlights have garnered much attention, the Warrant will also look at budgets for Concord Public Schools and Minuteman Technical High School, among other issues. Below is the full list of articles.


30 posted on 04/26/2011 11:26:28 AM PDT by raccoonradio (..)
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To: massmike


31 posted on 04/26/2011 11:27:18 AM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: massmike

Before clicking on this thread I was sure it was going to be a town in California. But I guess Massachusetts is kind of the California of the east coast.


32 posted on 04/26/2011 11:30:26 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: massmike

Are they going to throw you in jail or give you a fine for ‘illegal possession of imported bottled water’? By import, I mean from outside the city limit.

So the stockpile in my basement becomes confisticate-able?


33 posted on 04/26/2011 11:31:14 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: massmike

How does any town/city council get the power to put people out of business by “banning” a product? Who loses their livelihood? The bottled water manufacturer, employees - on the floor, administrative, sales people, drivers, distributors, merchants who stock/sell the product, people who manufacture, maintain, sell the manufacturing equipment, people who sell to the manufacturer of said equipment etc, etc, etc...not to mention removing people’s choice about what to purchase for their family.

It doesn’t matter if it’s plastic bags, soda, bottled water, salt, happy meal toys - it’s mind-boggling what ‘we’ put up with as a result of decisions made so that some people can feel virtuous about themselves.

Rhetorical question but, when did we stop taking unintended consequences, cost/benefit analysis into consideration when making decisions that affect so many people?

I live in California so I’m already dying the death of one-thousand cuts every time I turn around.....Arghh!


34 posted on 04/26/2011 11:40:51 AM PDT by TMD (Behind enemy lines.....)
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To: massmike
These $hitheads are just one natural disaster away from learning that bottled water is a more important survival tool than food. The body can go up to 2 weeks without food, but typically only 2-3 days without water. We keep at least 7 gallons of bottled water per person stored away in the house at all times. Just rotate out periodically.
35 posted on 04/26/2011 11:42:30 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Jared Lee Loughner - Disciple of Michael Moore)
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To: Dixie Yooper
I always crush my water bottles down till they’re flat, then screw the cap back on tight so they stay that way. Not because I have to, but because I care...

I thought I was the only one that did that. They take up less room in the trash that way. I do milk cartons and detergent bottles the same way.

I'm not trying to save money on trash bags - I'm the trash taker outer and it means fewer trips for me.

36 posted on 04/26/2011 12:07:31 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Be the kind of man that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, he's UP !!)
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To: Graybeard58
I thought I was the only one that did that. They take up less room in the trash that way. I do milk cartons and detergent bottles the same way. I'm not trying to save money on trash bags - I'm the trash taker outer and it means fewer trips for me.

I hear that! Every time I crush a water bottle and cap it, if there's someone nearby, I tell them, "there, I've done my part for the environment!".

37 posted on 04/26/2011 12:32:51 PM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: massmike

A better idea would be to place a refundable deposit on each plastic bottle.


38 posted on 04/26/2011 12:59:02 PM PDT by chainsaw ("The government cannot give to anyone anything that it does not first take from someone else.")
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To: MrB

It’s an idiotic, disingenuous goal unless every conceivable product for consumption packaged in plastic is also removed from the marketplace notwithstanding perceptions of ‘goodness’.


39 posted on 04/26/2011 1:37:38 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: Gene Eric

It doesn’t have to make sense, or work, or really, actually do any good at all. That’s not the point.

Jean feeling good about herself is the point.


40 posted on 04/26/2011 1:45:56 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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