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SUPPORT FOR SB565 (PAVLEY)
Sent this e-mail today to Assemblymembers Chesbro & Evans. I urge others to do the same. — Jim SUPPORT FOR SB565 (PAVLEY) – My wife and I live on Mark West Creek, major tributary to the Russian River, We have … Continue reading
Support Senate Bill 565 on Water Diversions
Please call Assemblymembers Wes Chesbro and Noreen Evans and ask them to support Senate Bill 565 by Senator Fran Pavley on the Assembly floor this week. SB 565 would:• Provide the State Water Resources Control Board with adequate authority to … Continue reading
DWR seeks advisers for Water Plan Update 2013
The Advisory Committee for Water Plan Update 2013 is being formed to help develop and refine policy recommendations for the plan. There also is a proposal to establish interest-based and regional-based fo- rums. These groups would be chaired by AC … Continue reading
Proposal for Quantifying and Evaluating Water Management Responses
The Water Plan team will be holding a meeting of the Statewide Water Analysis Network (SWAN) on Aug.19 when it will present a technical proposal for quantifying and evaluating water management responses for Update 2013. SWAN serves as the technical … Continue reading
Unnatural Problems with Natural Gas
S. T., Futurism Now August 5th, 2009 For anyone who thinks natural gas is clean (it’s not) and safe (it’s not) and green (are you kidding?) this story will add to the truth about it. Leaks during drilling continue to … Continue reading
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Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data
August 5, 2010 The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing — that the costs would cripple their business and that state regulations … Continue reading
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Drought Contingency Plan Workshop Aug. 10
DWR will hold a workshop Aug. 10 about a just-releasd draft Drought Contingency Plan. The workshop will be held in Sacramento at CalEPA, Klamath Training Room. http://www.waterplan.water.ca.gov/docs/meeting_materials/drought/2010.08.10/CA_Drought_Contingency_Plan-Public_Review_Draft-081010.pdf
Fracking Chemicals — Just how harmful can 1 percent be?
Betsey Piette, July 2010 Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011 Potentially toxic and carcinogenic chemicals are used in the hydraulic fracturing process to obtain natural gas from shale. Whenever industry officials are confronted with concerns regarding their … Continue reading
Fractured Logic: The Peril in “Fracking” Chemicals
Environmental Working Group, August 2010 If your family got its water from your own well (and a lot of people do), what would you say to someone who wanted to pump a whole grab-bag of chemicals into the ground nearby, … Continue reading
Tell Your Senators to Support Green Infrastructure!
Tell Your Senators to Support Green Infrastructure! Last week Senators Udall (D-NM) and Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced the Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act of 2010 (S. 3561) the Senate companion to H.R. 4202 introduced by Representative Edwards (D-MD) last year. … Continue reading