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State Audit requested for proposed Delta Twin Tunnels

Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Mon, 05/09/2016 - 17:59.

From the offices of Assemblymember Susan Talamantes Eggman and Senator Lois Wolk:

Susan EggmanWolkAssemblymember Susan Talamantes Eggman and Senator Lois Wolk announced on Monday that they will request a state audit of California Water Fix, the new name for a very old project to divert water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.  READ MORE »

San Francisco Double Standard

Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Mon, 05/09/2016 - 17:55.
 
 
 
  
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Kern County Residents Conduct Capitol Sit-In to Protest Central Valley Oil Drilling

Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Fri, 05/06/2016 - 05:38.
by Dan Bacher
 
Governor Jerry Brown has become infamous for spouting off about “climate change” and “green energy” at international climate conferences as he promotes environmentally destructive policies, including fracking,  pollution trading and R.E.D.D. and the salmon-killing Delta Tunnels, back at home.

 

Three protesters from Kern County are apparently tired of Governor Brown’s green rhetoric and pro-Big Oil actions and are currently conducting a sit-in outside of Governor Jerry Brown’s offices in the State Capitol as part of “Break Free,” a global wave of actions to keep fossil fuels in the ground.  READ MORE »

Westlands Water Deal is all wet

Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Thu, 05/05/2016 - 16:12.

Editor's Note: The San Francicsco Chronicle ran the following editorial on April 30, 2016

  When the public is railing about the unfairness of Big Bank bailouts and corporate welfare, why is the Obama administration pursuing a deal that gives away California water — a resource as precious as oil — to a San Joaquin Valley water agency?

  A proposed legal settlement would wipe off the federal books a long-standing lawsuit but also reward the Westlands Water District with what every community in the arid West would like — a permanent water contract.

  The proposed agreement and the changes in law required to implement it contained in HR4366 give away water that belongs to all Californians and do nothing to ensure the state’s land, wildlife and humans are protected from pollution.  READ MORE »

American Banking Association Report: Farm Banks Increase Ag Lending 8% in 2015

Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Thu, 05/05/2016 - 14:32.

ABA Report: Farm Banks Increase Ag Lending 8% in 2015

WASHINGTON — Farm banks increased agricultural lending by 7.9 percent in 2015 and held $100.3 billion in farm loans at the end of the year, according to the American Bankers Association’s annual Farm Bank Performance Report.   READ MORE »

Early Days of the Central Valley Project: The Role of Progressive Republicans, Freemasons, and Mormon Irrigators

Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Mon, 04/18/2016 - 18:41.
 
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Gary Stadelman Posz


This article grew out of conversation with colleagues about a speech Governor Earl Warren gave to a conference on water resource development at Stanford University in 1945. In his remarks, the Governor called for aggressive development of California's water resources. Little is known about the background of this speech, most particularly about what prompted Warren to launch so directly and forcefully into this fraught pubic policy domain when he had previously not identified himself with it; this was a high profile move outside of his known political interests and priorities.

I joined this conversation with commentary on the mutually reenforcing influences favoring water development in the West, which essentially pervaded the political space of Warren's career. One cannot claim that the influence matrix I describe here was dispositive in explaining Warren's unprecedented policy pronouncement. Bailing-wire sociology cum political science this narrative might be, yet it identifies significant influences present and operating in California politics when Earl Warren emerged in 1945 as a water development advocate.
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Wave Power – Harnessing the Ocean’s Energy

Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 09:31.

By Emma Bailey

The topic of climate change climbs increasingly into everyday discussion. All over the world, individuals, institutions and businesses have recognized the importance of addressing the issue and taking a proactive approach. Nonetheless, there are many clean sources of reliable power we have yet to fully develop. Capturing the power of waves is an exciting development in the field of renewable energy. If technology can begin to capture its continuous output, wave power promises solutions that could transform the way we obtain energy forever.

Marine Energy  READ MORE »

Scary quote of the Day

Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Tue, 03/15/2016 - 14:50.


        Increasing evidence from laboratory and human studies shows that synthetic chemicals contribute to disease and dysfunction across the life course. Of particular emerging concern is the disruption of the hormonal process that has been found to be associated with increasing rates of obesity, diabetes, neurodevelopmental disabilities, infertility, and breast and prostate cancers.1 Given the magnitude of human and economic burden associated with these conditions, it might be expected that the passage of bipartisan legislation in both houses of Congress to update the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for the first time in 40 years would meet with widespread approval by the public health and medical community.  From the March 14 issue of the Journal of (the) American Medical Society (JAMA) article entitled "Updating the Toxic Substances Control Act to Protect Human Health"

 

LA City Council approves Department of Water and Power rate increases

Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Tue, 03/15/2016 - 12:46.

   The Los Angeles City Council today gave final approval to rate increases proposed by the Department of Water and Power, according to the Los Angeles Times.

    Officials signed off on the hikes about two weeks after they first considered the utility's proposals to increase to water and power base rates for the first time in years.

    Water rates will increase 4.7% each year for five years, while power rates will go up 3.86% in the same fashion.       READ MORE »

Film on disappearance of Bees will be shown in Fresno Feb. 21

Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Fri, 02/12/2016 - 11:52.

Sunday, February 21st at 6:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 2672 E. Alluvial: the film “Nicotine Bees” will be shown.  This film, directed by Kevin Hansen,  gets to the truth of why honeybees of the world are in big trouble and why our food supply is in trouble with them.  The answers are clear – and have been for several years: filmed on three continents to find out the real reasons bees are in catastrophic decline – and why people don’t want the real story to be told. The simultaneous global decline of honeybees threatens one third of our food supply – yet despite clear cut scientific data, especially from Europe, news reports still refer to the issue as a “mystery”. Come and see the film and find out why the “honeybees” don’t come back home.  53 minutes long.  This film is being co-sponsored by the Fresno Center for Nonviolence and the Peace and Justice Coordinating Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church.  Wheelchair accessible. Free admission though donations would be welcome.  For more information call the Center at (559) 237-3223 Mon-Fri 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

 

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