The State of California intends to challenge the environmental plan for a bottled water plant that Nestle Waters North America intends to build in Siskiyou County, unless the company revises its contract to pump water from the McCloud River.

“It takes massive quantities of oil to produce plastic water bottles and to ship them in diesel trucks across the United States,” said California Attorney General Edmund Brown Jr. “Nestle will face swift legal challenge if it does not fully evaluate the environmental impact of diverting millions of gallons of spring water from the McCloud River into billions of plastic water bottles.”

The attorney general added that the company’s draft environmental impact report, DEIR, “fails to address in any meaningful way the project’s likely environmental impacts.”