City of Mount Shasta Community Water Rights and Self-Government Ordinance

Initiative Measure to be submitted to City of Mount Shasta voters in November 2010 elections.

This measure is designed to assert and secure the right of the people of the City of Mt. Shasta to natural water systems and cycles through the exercise of community self-government by enumerating certain rights held by the people and natural community and prohibiting activities that would deny those rights; by protecting the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens and environment of the City of Mt. Shasta; by not allowing corporations to engage in weather manipulation; by establishing strict liability and burden of proof standards for chemical trespass; by not allowing corporations to engage in water withdrawal for export and resale beyond the City of Mt. Shasta; by removing claims to legal rights and protections from corporations that would allow a few people hiding behind the corporate shield to subordinate the people and environment of the City of Mt. Shasta to them; and by recognizing and enforcing the rights of residents to defend the rights of natural communities and ecosystems.