Who is to Blame? Nestlé was recruited by the Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade Organization and the Economic Development Department, one of a series of bad projects they have brought here that include the municipal waste burning incinerator and the natural gas storage facility beneath homes in South Sacramento. The EDD worked with SACTO in secrecy to convince Nestlé to choose Sacramento over Roseville or Stockton. Since the project has been announced Johnson has been Nestlé's only public supporter. He glowingly informed us of Nestlé's arrival in the SACTO press release in July and solemnly apologized to them at the council meeting for being forced to temporarily obey the law. He also is

On Oct. 26, after preparing all day and night, Save Our Water went to bed feeling ready for whatever might happen at City Hall the following evening. We were so wrong. We expected to speak at the City Council meeting in favor of an urgency ordinance that would have required a conditional use permit for beverage bottling plants in Sacramento. The new law would have made bottlers go through a public planning process and environmental review prior to project approval. But while we were at City Hall that afternoon we discovered the city attorney now considered Nestlé vested. The proposed ordinance would be removed from the agenda and referred to the Law and Legislation Committee, though appa