it's thinking like this that will turn Michigan into Mississippi

But we also see how water protection laws can be used to needlessly kill jobs with the correct ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court against environmental groups challenging the Nestle/Ice Mountain bottling plant in Osceola County. The plant has been targeted even though it will use less water than most food processing and automotive manufacturing facilities.

It would be foolish for Michigan and other Great Lakes states not to protect water quality or monitor how much water is being drawn out of the lakes for shipment to other places.

It would be equally foolish to so restrict water use that the state derives no economic benefit beyond tourism from this potent asset.

When the water is all commercialized and beyond public control, will the Detroit News find that foolish? Michigan will then be an impoverished colony of corporations. And of course, citizens won't have standing to sue them.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007707260318

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[mrsharkattack]

beachmuck.com. somebody started a blog all about muck. they have plenty to write about in the great lakes.

[Eric B.]

Isn't it funny that the pro-property rights Detroit News couldn't muster the same enthusiasm when the people seeking protections for their rights happened to be private citizens being harmed by corporations?

That's not the only thing they got wrong ... I see they peg the bottling plant's location as Osceola County.