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22 November

Eden Springs - freshly pillaged from the illegally-settled Golan HeightsSCOTTISH CAPITAL  SOFTLY SOFTLY MOVE TO  DUMP ISRAELI COMPANY
On this day in 2007, Edinburgh City councillors discussed a motion to cancel its contract with Israeli water cooler company, Eden Springs. After a presentation by a Palestine solidarity deputation and a short break when councillors took some time to discuss the matter, the council meeting reconvened and agreed to review the contract with Eden Springs. The Council later agreed “to review the Council’s contract with Eden Springs and ask for a report back within one cycle on how this could be achieved”.

 

 

العاصمة الاسكتلندية تتحرك بهدوء للتخلص من الشركة الإسرائيلية

22 نوفمبر

في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2007 ، ناقش أعضاء مجلس مدينة إدنبرة اقتراحًا بإلغاء عقدها مع الشركة الإسرائيلية لتبريد المياه إيدن سبرينغز. بعد عرض قدمه مندوب حملة التضامن مع فلسطين واستراحة قصيرة اعطت أعضاء المجلس بعض الوقت لمناقشة الأمر ، انعقد اجتماع المجلس واتفقوا على مراجعة العقد مع إيدن سبرينغز. وافق المجلس لاحقًا على "مراجعة عقد المجلس مع إيدن سبرينغز وطلب تقرير مرة أخرى خلال دورة واحدة حول كيفية تحقيق ذلك".

The motion

Council notes the call by major groups in Palestinian civil society to boycott Eden Springs. Council further notes that the STUC have supported this call & have cancelled their contract with Eden Springs. Council resolves to support this call and instructs officers to cancel the contract with Eden Springs in their supply of water to City of Edinburgh Council.’

The Council decision on 22 Nov:
"Further to your deputation to the Council meeting on 22 November 2007 in relation to the Eden Springs Contract, I can confirm that the Council agreed:

    1. To note the call by the major groups in Palestinian civil society to boycott Eden Springs and that the STUC had supported this call and had cancelled their contract with Eden Springs.
    2. To agree, in principle, to review the Council’s contract with Eden Springs and ask for a report back within one cycle on how this could be achieved; the report to include:
      1. a review of the legal status of the Eden Springs contract;
      2. the ability of the Council to break that contract and the financial costs of doing so;
      3. the possibility of future contracts stipulating locally sourced supplies, preferably within Scotland to further promote Scottish produce and reduce the Council’s carbon footprint, whilst taking account of UK and EU procurement legislation.
    3. To use the opportunity of reviewing the contract to minimise the environmental impact of providing drinking water in Council buildings and therefore to call for a report into options for this, including the use of tap water instead of bottled water.

Carmel Riley, Senior Committee Officer, City of Edinburgh Council"

Initially the SNP/Liberal Democrat Council administration opposed the motion, calling instead to 'take no further action at this time". Following the contribution by the deputation and a short break when councillors took some time to discuss the matter, the full council meeting unanimously agreed to review the contract with Eden Springs and for a report on the matter to be heard at the next full Council meeting in a month's time.

"Israeli water firm faces boycott call in Capital". Edinburgh Evening News, Mon 26 Nov 2007

An Israeli water firm could lose its £117,000 contract with the city council after claims it is "pillaging" Syrian natural resources to create profit. Various groups are calling for a boycott of Eden Springs. It operates in the Golan Heights, a border plateau captured by Israel from Syria in the Six-Day War in 1967.

 Its UK arm supplies water coolers for council-run schools and offices in Edinburgh, and at a meeting this week, councillors agreed to call for a review of the contract. Mick Napier, chairman of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: "I am outraged that money is being given to reward Eden Springs. This company pillages the water of an occupied territory."

 Labour councillor Gordon Munro originally lodged a motion calling on officials to cancel the contract with Eden Springs, but following legal advice, the politicians agreed to receive a report and review the situation.

 An Eden Springs spokesman said: "Eden Springs UK is a separate unit, and the water used in the UK is sourced in the UK. We have 100,000 customers in the country and employ around 200 people in Scotland."
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