[GPSCC-chat] I'm back.

[Gerry Gras]

Wes Rolley wrote:
> Ahnuld does not have exclusive use of that phrase.
>
> I dropped off the local email list for a while primarily because I was
> too busy with other things.   However, the closeness of two important
> issues has prompted me to return.  They are water and energy.
> Specifically, I am very concerned that the entire effort by the Brown
> administration to build a pair of tunnels under the Delta to divert
> water from it's current use to something else is very troubling.  For a
> while I thought that the rationale for such fervent effort was Brown's
> desire for legacy as great as his father's.  Now, I am not so sure.  I
> know that the South County Democratic Club is taking on the issues of
> Delta Water and Fracking as their key environmental efforts for 2014. I
> also know that our local state assemblyman, Luis Alejo (Salinas) has
> managed to refrain from voting on key fracking related bills.
>
> The Democrats are talking about the probability that the real need for
> all of the extra water is to support massive fracking operations in San
> Luis Obispo / Monterey counties or expansion of the steam recovery of
> oil sludge in Kern county.

That's a disturbing thought.  Can you say anything more
about how likely / unlikely the fracking or steam recovery
issues are?

>
> It makes sense to me that Santa Clara, Monterey and San Luis Obispo
> County Greens should mount an effort to show Green Party leadership on
> these issues and to do so in such a manner as to prevent Democrats from
> being able to claim this as their own.

Ok.

Gerry

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> then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/
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