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AN EXCERPT: Strike Debt, a movement formed by a coalition of Occupy Wall Street groups looking to build a popular resistance to debt, plans to hold a telethon and variety show November 15 in support of the Rolling Jubilee, a system to buy debt for pennies on the dollar, and abolish it.
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– November 14, 2012
AN EXCERPT: It’s no secret that precipitation in the Upper Colorado River Basin has been well below average this year, and the data from the seven drought months leading up to October offer continued cause for concern. Six of those months have seen significantly diminished precipitation in the basin, falling as low as 10 percent of average upstream of Grand Junction in June. Only July, at 160 percent upstream of Grand Junction and 130 percent above Utah’s Lake Powell, saw above-average precipitation. Four of those months saw precipitation 55 percent of average or less.
The ramifications aren’t limited to Colorado. Total inflow into Lake Powell in September was just 100,000 acre feet, 25 percent of average, and 104,000 acre feet in August.
“These are the two lowest months on record for inflow into Lake Powell. That tells you how dry things are,” CRD general manager Eric Kuhn said at the district’s October board meeting. “Even if we have a moderately dry winter, things will be pretty bad. If we have average precipitation in the next two years, Lake Mead levels will be approaching the first shortage trigger in 2014.”
Low water in the Powell Reservoir in 2005
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– November 14, 2012
With his mother and father, Joseph & Sadie
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– November 14, 2012
Herb’s parents in a Nevada ghost town
Herb in Los Angeles. 1941
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– November 14, 2012
ZEPHYR NOTE: The company referred to here, Petro Harvester, according to its web site, “is based in Plano, Texas and backed by affiliates of TPG Capital. ” The founding partner of TPG is, of course, David Bonderman, who sits on the board of directors of the Grand Canyon Trust and the Wilderness Society…JS
AN EXCERPT: Releases of drilling and fracking waste, which is often laced with carcinogenic chemicals, have wiped out aquatic life in streams and wetlands.
In one case last July, workers for Petro Harvester, a small, Texas-based oil company, noticed a swath of dead vegetation in a field near one of the company’s saltwater disposal lines. The company reported the spill the next day, estimating that 12,600 gallons of brine had leaked.
When state and county officials came to assess the damage, however, they found evidence of a much larger accident. The leak, which had gone undetected for days or weeks, had sterilized about 24 acres of land. Officials later estimated the spill to be at least 2 million gallons of brine, Roberts said, which would make it the largest ever in the state.
Yet state records still put the volume at 12,600 gallons and Roberts sees no reason to change it.
In a written statement, Petro Harvester said tests showed the spill had not contaminated groundwater and that it would continue monitoring the site for signs of damage. State records show the company hired a contractor to cover the land with 40 truckloads of a chemical that leaches salt from the soil.
Nearly a year later, however, even weeds won’t grow in the area, said Darwin Peterson, who farms the land. While Petro Harvester has promised to compensate him for lost crops, Peterson said he hasn’t heard from the company in months and he doesn’t expect the land to be usable for years. “It’s pretty devastating,” he said.
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Petro Harvester http://petroharvester.com/
TPG CAPITAL http://www.tpg.com/portfolio
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– November 13, 2012
Herb’s first trip West…to Colorado Springs 1917
Summer afternoon…
Herb at age 4 in Colorado.
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– November 13, 2012
AN EXCERPT: The International Energy Agency (IEA) released its annual report Monday, which predicted that U.S. oil output will overtake Saudi Arabia’s by the end of the decade. While many supporters of U.S. energy independence will welcome the news, the IEA report also warns that the global energy system is on an unsustainable path.
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– November 12, 2012
Old West meets New West…pick your poison…
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– November 12, 2012
November 2012
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– November 11, 2012
AN EXCERPT: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the team behind the 2010 Sundance Film Festival documentary Catfish and Paranormal Activity 3, will write and direct an adaptation of the Edward Abbey novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. The project has been set up by Edward R. Pressman, who is producing with Grammy-winning album cover artist Gary Burden. The producers have been tooling around with The Monkey Wrench Gang for about 15 years but feel they’ve now got the right filmmakers to see through a movie adaptation of the ’70s tale.
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– November 11, 2012
