Badlands Journal
Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
10-5-09
Indybay
California Waterloo – Tide of Debt May Shift from General Fund to Water Users...Dan Bacher
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/05/18624477.php
10-5-09
Badlands Journal
Water and alternative energy in the West...Badlands Journal editorial board...10-4-09
http://www.badlandsjournal.com/2009-10-04/007449
Daniel M. Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, predicted that as intensive renewable energy development spreads, water issues will follow.
9-29-09
At the most basic level, it's a matter of the West yet again trying, in the energy sphere, to bypass Russia. For this to happen, however - and it wouldn't hurt if you opened the nearest atlas for a moment - Europe desperately needs to get a handle on Central Asian energy resources, which is easy to say but has proven surprisingly hard to do.
Daniel M. Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, predicted that as intensive renewable energy development spreads, water issues will follow.
We have no appreciation for the Hun, our governor. We think he is a public embarrassment. But, in terms of the time-honored political phrase – the people get the government they deserve – the Hun is a tribute to the political idiocy of the California population, composed of people who all think state history began when they got here, either is immigrants from the US and elsewhere, or as babies.
10-4-09
"How could this not affect the human environment?" Wanger asked of the smelt rules, which are known as a biological opinion. "It has had catastrophic effects."
It's important for Valley residents to understand just how mean and greedy their "leaders" have been for the last decade as -- without any concern whatsoever for the consequences of real estate speculative bubbles -- they used their local land-use authority to sell land for the benefit of very few, establish our cities as among the least affordable in the nation at the height of the bubble, and then plunge us into economic depression with a rotted safety net.
10-3-09
Contra Costa Times
Court orders government to pay for water losses
decision could open door for more districts to seek payment for water shifted to fish...Mike Taugher
http://www.contracostatimes.com/top-stories/ci_13472637
10-1-09
Capitol Weekly
Grassroots Latino Water Coalition registered to ag industry lobbyist
By Malcolm Maclachlan
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=yb3fzxmc87lqzt