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MEDIA ADVISORY
December 11, 2002

COASTAL COMMISSION TO VOTE ON CONTROVERSIAL WATER BAG SCHEME; PUBLIC INTEREST AND ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS DECRY THEFT OF WATER.

What: On the final day of a fiery 4-day meeting, the Coastal Commission will vote whether to file a protest with the State Water Resources Control Board over a notorious water bag grab on North Coast rivers. The proposed project would suck water at the mouths of the Albion and Gualala Rivers to fill polyethylene bladders the size of three football fields. Tugboats would pull these to San Diego and the water would be sold by a company called Alaska Water Exports as a business enterprise. Environmental impacts, public trust violation, and transnational corporate control cited by groups as reasons to oppose. Coastal Commission staff recommends protesting the project.

When: Friday, December 13, 2002; hearing begins at 9 am.

Where: Hyatt-Regency Embarcadero Hotel, foot of Market Street in San Francisco

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