Three years ago, Nestle, which was already buying spring water from a private company in Fryeburg, applied to the Fryeburg Planning Board for a permit to build a truck filling station to transfer spring water extracted from Denmark and piped to the Fryeburg border. The plan would bring about 50 trucks a day on a road in a rural residential district in Fryeburg. The planning board initially approved Nestlé's proposal. The decision was challenged by a group of committed citizens, known as the Western Maine Citizens for Rural Living and the Board of Appeals accepted the appeal. Since this time, Nestlé has tried every avenue to have the Board of Appeals decision overturned. Fryeburg residents have had to fight Nestlé in the Oxford Superior Court and the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Then both the Fryeburg Planning Board and the Fryeburg appeals board stated this is not a low impact business (two more no's to Nestlé). So Nestlé appealed again to the Maine Superior Court. Each time costs Fryeburg's citizens more legal
expense.

It makes you wonder, "What doesn't Nestlé understand about the word, "no"?

Fryeburg residents have spent the last three years in a complicated legal maze. They've spent $45,000 in legal fees raised from $50 to $100 donations from with the community, and anticipate needing another $25,000 to see the case through. "Nestlé is prying their way in [to Fryeburg] by appealing all the courts decisions. They are wearing us down both mentally and financially. We've spent hours of time, been accused of intimidation, being mean spirited and called a mob and tyrants. They continue to force this square peg application into a round hole because it is the shortest route to their wells. What a good corporate neighbor?" says Scott Gamwell of the Western Maine Citizens for Rural Living.

Please, if you can spare a few dollars to help Fryeburg continue its David and Goliath fight against Nestlé then please send a check to
Verrill Dana LLP
P.O. Box 586
Portland, Me 04112-0586
**please note on the check that it should go into the account for Western Maine Citizens for Rural Living fight against Nestle**
www.waterwaves.org (Fryeburg site)
www.defendingwaterinmaine.org/fryeburg.html