Sounds like BlueTriton simply f'd around and found out. For starters, they were flagged for operating without a permit: > The Forest Service announced the deci

Sounds like BlueTriton simply f'd around and found out. For starters, they were flagged for operating without a permit: > The Forest Service announced the decision one month after a local environmental group, Save Our Forest Assn., filed a lawsuit arguing the agency was illegally allowing the company to continue operating under a permit that was past its expiration date. In addition to not having a permit, even if they did have one they were using the water for non-permitted purposes: > In the July Forest Service letter, Nobles said the company was repeatedly asked to provide “additional information necessary to assure compliance with BlueTriton’s existing permit” but that the requests were “consistently left unanswered.” > Nobles said that under the regulations, he may consider whether the water used exceeds the “needs of forest resources.” > He also said that while the company had said in its application that the water would go for bottled water, its reports showed that 94% to 98% of the amount of water diverted monthly was delivered to the old hotel property for “undisclosed purposes,” and that “for months BlueTriton has indicated it has bottled none of the water taken,” while also significantly increasing the volumes extracted.