CA Delta water war being won by legitimacy, not money

April 30, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The most memorable proverb about California water is: “Water runs uphill towards money.” But water doesn’t flow uphill towards money only.  If it did, Southern California — which has two-thirds of the state population —

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Opposition grows to long-range green planning

April 30, 3013 By Warren Duffy Opposition is growing to government plans to squeeze Californians into high-rise apartments and mass transit. The March 2012 issue of “Western City,” published by the League of California Cities, included an article authored by

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LA council attack on San Onofre might bring blackouts to Orange County, San Diego

April 29, 2013 By Joseph Perkins After giving a speech in which he refused to bail out New York City from impending bankruptcy, Gerald Ford prompted the famously pithy headline in the New York Daily News:  FORD TO CITY:  DROP

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CalPERS pushes CA away from cheap, clean hydropower

April 25, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi During the court-ordered “drought” in California from 2007 to 2010, some signs along highways in the Central Valley read: “Food grows where water flows” “Congress created dust bowl” “No water=no barley=no beer” “People are

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New Water Rights Atlas exaggerates CA water problems

April 22, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The Resource Renewal Institute, an environmental activist organization, recently posted online its new California Water Rights Atlas. The atlas alarmingly asserts: “Currently, water rights holders claim they divert [that is, use] in aggregate approximately 250 million

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Blackout summer bummer?

April 21, 2013 By John Seiler All California’s anti-energy activism might take a toll this summer with potential blackouts like we had back in 2000-01 during the California Electricity Crisis. The San Onofre nuke plant is down. Hydro power is

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Obamacare already gutting CA jobs

April 20, 2013 By John Seiler Obamacare officially is called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But how can it “protect” you and provide “affordable care” when your hours were cut below the 30 hours per week needed to

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Trust not enough to solve CA water problems

April 18, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Those who want to settle the water wars over the Sacramento Delta by first restoring “trust” rather than implementing the adopted law of the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan should take the advice of comedian W.C.

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CARB chair plugs electric cars

April 17, 2013 By Joseph Perkins Mary Nichols was in Detroit this week for the Society of Automotive Engineers annual World Congress. The chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board told attendees that her agency wants to have better relations

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Gov. Brown seeking funding for CA bullet train

April 16, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Why did Gov. Jerry Brown travel to China on a trade mission to secure investment from them for the California High Speed Rail Authority? The answer is that proposed public transportation projects keep chugging along

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