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...Perrier's Wisconsin Well...
...Perrier, whose labels include Deer Park, Poland Spring and Calistoga, has a fever to make Wisconsin the Midwest source for its Ice Mountain brand. They're bulling ahead with the blessing of Governor Tommy Thompson and waiting on a state pumping permit that could come any day now. This despite crushing votes against Perrier (by ratios of 4-1 and 3-1) in two referendums and last week's 263-92 recall of New Haven town manager Ed Coon, 66. Coon, speaking in his kitchen, moments before his fate was decided, said he thought it was time to grow...
...Perrier came in and told us if we don't like what we hear, they'll leave," says New Haven's Dan Ilkich, 34. "And then they say, Look, you're really just a bunch of hicks who don't know what's best for you." This is not a stretch. Perrier flack Jane Lazgin was dumbfounded as to how townsfolk could be stacked against such a winning project...
...worst part," Ed Coon admits, "is how this thing has ripped this community apart." Philosophically, they don't wish to sell off their constitutional right or moral obligation to watch over the land. Especially not when Jim Krohelski of the U.S. Geologic Survey says he doesn't trust Perrier's testing or the state's monitoring and believes the pumping "will have an adverse effect" on the ecosystem...
...powers that be, and we'll fight till we drop," said Chuck Hill, 66, the new town manager, one morning. I had invited five people to breakfast; 40 showed up. Thunder Valley Inn owner Anita Nelson, in Norsk regalia, got on the piano and pounded out an anti-Perrier sing-along to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic. And the lesson is this: never underestimate the will or resourcefulness of people who are snowed in half the year...