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Re:Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comm... by maxerickson on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:58PM (#16760113)
Water rights aren't terribly contentious in that part of Michigan. The Muskegon is tiny and the sort of river hydro is being removed from.

http://glpf.org/funded-projects/muskegon-river-dam-removal/

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Re:Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comm... by Retric on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:40PM (#16760744)
The Muskegon feeds into the Lake Michigan which is thus upstream of Niagara Falls and a lot of hydro power generation. Granted we are not talking about a huge amount of energy, but it is one of many costs that are not being compensated.
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Re:Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comm... by Turing_Machine on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:46PM (#16761091)
Compare the amount of water they're taking out per day (576,000 gallons) to amount of water that goes over Niagara Falls in a day (about 54,345,600,000 gallons).

"Not a huge amount of energy", indeed.

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Re:Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comm... by Retric on Thursday April 05, 2018 @10:13AM (#16765046)
In the short term perhaps, but it's not going to take that long to hit 10,000$ worth of energy and again that's just one of many uses of this water which as far as I can tell is uncompensated.
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