[frontline-news] EARTH LIBERATION FRONT CLAIMS INCENDIARIES LEFT AT MICHIGAN PERRIER BOTTLING PLANT: "WATER FOR LIFE, NOT FOR PROFIT!"

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Frontline Information Service - EARTH LIBERATION FRONT CLAIMS INCENDIARIES LEFT
AT MICHIGAN PERRIER BOTTLING PLANT: "WATER FOR LIFE, NOT FOR PROFIT!" -
09/23/03 
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For Immediate Release

The Earth Liberation Front Press Office has received a communique from the
Earth Liberation Front claiming they left incendiaries at a pumping station
supplying a water bottling plant owned by Nestlé Waters North America (formerly
known as the Perrier Group of America) in Mecosta County, Michigan. According
to news reports, these incendiaries failed to ignite and were removed from the
station without incident.

Controversy has surrounded the Ice Mountain Plant for the past several years
with local activist groups asserting the bottling plant will have a negative
impact on the local environment, and that it violates stated and federal water
rights. Three Native American tribes have launched a lawsuit against Nestlé on
the basis that rivers and ultimately the Great Lakes will be affected by its
operations. 

Although the incendiaries failed to ignite, the ELF has sent a message that the
commodification of water is an attack on a fundamental right of all beings and
must be stopped. 

The communique  follows:

<begin>
When all legal avenues of dissent have been undertaken to no avail, only one
option remains.  Illegal Direct Action.  The people of Michigan have stated
very clearly that we do not want a Perrier Bottling Plant.  We've had enough of
empty political rhetoric about freedom and justice, enough of sitting back
while our most basic rights are handed over to corporations.  Clean water is
one of the most fundamental necessities, and no one can be allowed to privatize
it, commodify it, and try and sell it back to us.

We will no longer stand idly be while corporations profit at the expense of all
others. To this end, we have taken action against one of the pumping stations
that Perrier uses to steal water.

On the night of Sunday, the 21st of September, the ELF penetrated the perimeter
fence of an area of land used for canned hunts.  This particular location, a
short distance from Rodney, MI, near 13 Mile Rd and M20 is home to the pumping
stations that supply the Perrier Bottling Plant in Mecosta County.  Access to
one of the pumping stations was gained and timed incendiary devices were
placed.  We will not allow the commodification of life to continue.  Action
must, and will, be taken, for it is our only chance.

Water for life, not for profit!

Welcome to Michigan.
ELF
<end>

The Earth Liberation Front is an international underground organization that
uses direct action in the form of economic sabotage to stop the destruction of
the natural environment. Since 1997, the ELF in North America has caused over
$100 million in damages to entities who profit from the destruction of life and
the planet.

The Earth Liberation Front Press Office is an autonomous entity that serves to
publicize news and actions of the ELF, as reported through news media or by
anonymous communications from the individuals involved in activities.

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Contact:
North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office
elfpress at resist.ca
http://www.earthliberationfront.com


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