Niagara Bottling Company

  11/12/14  Ulster County Industrial Development Agency ToU Supervisor James Quigley requests consent for Lead Agency to IDA. 10/16/14  Town of Ulster Town Board Meeting Public Comment In its entirety  10/16/14  Kingston Community Radio Supervisor Jim Quigley (Starts at 7:12) 10/15/14  Kingston Community Radio Mayor Shayne Gallo (Starts at 1:32:44)    

Niagara Bottling Company Proposal

10/7/14 – KINGSTON COMMON COUNCIL Part 1 – Public Speaking includes Mayor Shayne Gallo, Judy Hansen, Rebecca Martin from KingstonCitizens.org and Alex Beauchamp from Food & Water Watch. Rebecca Martin, KingstonCitizens.org Speech Text  Alex Beaucamp, Food & Water Watch Speech Text Part 2 – Public Speaking Part 3 – Public Speaking ### 10/8/14 – KINGSTON … Read more…

Niagara Bottling Company

  2/13/15 – Times Herald Record “Niagara Bottling pulls plug on proposed town of Ulster Plant” 2/13/15 – Daily Freeman “Niagara Bottling Drops Plan to Build Water Bottling Plant in the Town of Ulster.” 1/6/15 – Daily Freeman “Ulster Bottling Plant Proposal Woodstock’s Primary Concern for 2015.” 12/20/14 – Poughkeepsie Journal “Fracking Ban Reflects Power … Read more…

Jobs: Urban Agriculture and Niagara Bottling Co.

  By Rebecca Martin Niagara Bottling Co. wants to come to the area (tax free) to bottle and to sell 1.75 million gallons of Kingston City Water (Cooper Lake) per day. The Water may be tax free too. It is unclear whether or not that to be the case at this time. The City of … Read more…

Kingston Citizens: Niagara Bottling Company Project. YOUR WATER IS IN PLAY.

  By Rebecca Martin We have recently created a Facebook invitation for the next Common Council meeting on Tuesday, October 7th.  Please consider coming to speak during public comment (at the beginning of the meeting) on the proposed Niagara Bottling Co. plan to bottle and sell Kingston City Water. The timing here is crucial, given that … Read more…

Village of Saugerties “SEQRA Review For Niagara Water Bottling”

By Rebecca Martin Village of Saugerties Trustee Patrick Landewe recently wrote a letter to the Town of Ulster as Lead Agency respectfully requesting ‘to be contacted during the course of the SEQR process as a courtesy’ to keep informed as an ‘interested’ agency. Landewe thanks the Town of Ulster for ‘taking the lead and initiating … Read more…

Can We Do Better? KingstonCitizens.org Asks the SUNY Ulster Board of Directors not to Enter into the Start-Up New York with Niagara Bottling

December 16, 2014 By Jennifer Schwartz Berky To the SUNY Ulster Board of Trustees,  I am here with KingstonCitizens.org, an organization that now has over a thousand supporters and approximately 25 professionals in a region-wide coalition engaged in our work. (See Introduction to KC.org). We have been working since 2005 to increase transparency and civic … Read more…

Niagara Not Included in Start-Up NY Announcement Today (12/29/14)

The awaited decision from Governor Cuomo was issued today. Two of the five proposals submitted to Start-Up NY by SUNY Ulster were selected, but do not include Niagara Bottling. We are very pleased. Start-Up NY is a new program, and we’ve seen multiple announcements made over the last 6 months at participating campuses. Until we … Read more…