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Judge spanks Edison for unreported meetings
Spread Langley's word: What ratepayers can do: Commissioners are appointed by the Governor. Ratepayers are urged to call Governor Jerry Brown and demand a rehearing and an independent investigation onto the corruption of his appointed officials at the California Public Utilities Commission. Just DO it! Yes, I'm trying to twist your arm! Best, Twister PS: But this story needs much wider dissemination. Yes, even wider than the (reformed?) San Diego Union and Reader. What we really need is to jam the Governor's switchboard in a coordinated call-up. Social media? A protest? A concise, referenced leaflet?— August 6, 2015 6:29 p.m.
Judge spanks Edison for unreported meetings
What a Darling coverup.— August 6, 2015 6:13 p.m.
Water wars: View from the delta
Don't forget the airport studies.— August 6, 2015 4:01 p.m.
Water wars: View from the delta
Don, we may well live to see California essentially run out of water. An El Niño winter might put it off for a while, but even so adding that piddle to the puddle we have left in the reservoirs will only buy a tiny bit of time. Hell, even if they were filled up, the present level of demand would take them down again pretty quickly. Pretty soon, the chickens (especially the ducks) won’t be able to come home to roost.— August 6, 2015 4 p.m.
Water wars: View from the delta
I'm with you again, Bill! First there was shallow oil--hell, it was even surfacing on its own. Then, we had to drill deeper. Now we have to frack up the rocks thousands of feet down to squeeze out the last few barrels--LITERALLY! Agricultural "productivity" (talk about misleading euphemisms !) is DEPENDENT upon oil-based fertilizer. We shoulda listened to Ronnie Regan when he said, "There's no free lunch!" (Of course I don't think he wanted to leave the impression that there was no free lunch for everybody--just the benighted majority.) Best, Twister— August 6, 2015 3:51 p.m.
Water wars: View from the delta
Start here: http://www.independent.com/news/2015/apr/15/eat-c… Let me know how much capital you've invested. It ain't far from the Stoned Age to the Stone Age . . . Put that in your pipe and imbibe it, mister! Twister PS: This pretending not to get my puns has got to stop! I'm a needy type.— August 6, 2015 3:36 p.m.
Water wars: View from the delta
"The question: can California do what is necessary -- curtailing and possibly reversing population growth -- when the big money keeps the pols from tackling the problems? Best, Don Bauder" "When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are . . ." Welcome to Fantasyland! Big money and their pol lackeys are whistling past our graveyards . . .— August 6, 2015 3:21 p.m.
Water wars: View from the delta
This time I'm with Don, Bill. Again, the FACT is that water is LIMITED, and demand is UNLIMITED. Inconvenient, sure, but the equities are pretty clear. You can either keep on adding water service connections and keep restricting water usage more and more, or you can cut back on connections and still take daily showers, etc.— August 6, 2015 3:16 p.m.
Water wars: View from the delta
jnojr Aug. 5, 2015 @ 8:38 a.m. "California's recorded history is literally insignificant in geological and climatological timeframes." True. Climate fluctuates, as does weather. But water is LIMITED, no matter how many rivers we damn, how many fish we kill, how much we waste or conserve. Humans, being the only species that changes the environment according to cultural whim, sapient though they may be in some respects, truly believe they can repeal all natural laws. Sooner or later, the consequences will bomb Homo sapiens back into the stone age, and what's left will not sustain a paleolithic population as it did in paleolithic times. Too much life and the capacity to support it will be gone forever. Regrettably, Twister PS: There's a new start-up to manufacture crickets and cricket protein powder. The crickets will eat our garbage, and we will eat the crickets. Looks like there's time to get in on the ground floor of the cricket grinding business. The wave (-off) of the future!— August 6, 2015 12:03 p.m.
Water wars: View from the delta
"The current mentality is to squeeze whatever water we can out of a system, even when it is not there." --Jacob Morrison THAT sums up the ENTIRE issue; all else is fluff, PR, window-dressing, diversionary tactics, dissembling, lies, damn lies, and misleading statistics. The "water conservation" measures, the percent reductions, the legal-schmegal excuses, are all irrelevant bull$hit. The rivers will NOT dry up because of the drought, they will dry up because the water is being WASTED. And I don't mean just that which runs off into the gutters. Back in the sixties, a few people had sense enough to perform studies that compared waste patterns of alternative yard-watering methods. The high-tech, automated systems came out a distant last--wasted far more water than old-fashioned hose systems. There’s an easy, equitable way to allocate resources like water, but it will require changes. Not difficult, either. But the water wasters’ and the water royalty’s over-fat oxen will have to lose some of their fat. Fearing being gored to death, they will oppose change, and will fight it to the last drop. Relevant studies can be done that show where the waste is, but where are they? The governor, to his credit, has let it slip that there may be one more year's water supply left the the reservoirs. Sure, you can take the last drop away from the fish, and the almost extinct salmon runs will be no more--totally, IRRETRIEVABLY EXTINCT, not to mention other fisheries and fish (many different species, not just mosquito fish) that keep mosquitoes and other insects under control, not to mention countless other ecosystem services which we blissfully ignore, and what are you left with? NO water. Plus a lot of stinking bog holes and a crashed economy. What is it? The seventh largest economy in the world? We are whistling past our own graveyard in TOTAL DENIAL. The ratio of supply to consumption is now less that one to one. The ONLY way to re-balance that equation is to drastically reduce consumption enough to stretch what little we have left until the water supply is "restored." But that will not solve the problem of INCREASING DEMAND. But that will NOT happen. Reason. Too many people are over-invested in development, in adding water consumers to a supply system that has been tapped out.— August 6, 2015 10:14 a.m.