Category Archives: water

Getting accustom to moderate to exceptional drought

2012-9-14 – 2:58 pm

For comparison, “just 21.47 percent of the lower 48 states was drought free, which is down from 56.53 percent at the same time in 2011.”

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No Fracking, It’s Too Costly

2012-7-26 – 3:18 pm

“However hard they try to suppress government funding and tax breaks for renewables, Big Oil and Big Gas are doomed to lose, and in only about 4 years.”

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Oxygen — not a free lunch

2012-7-10 – 6:44 am

“This is one labor dispute that the capitalist cannot win.”

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72 Percent of the US Is Experiencing Dry or Drought Conditions

2012-7-3 – 7:45 pm

Reprint of article by Julia Whitty for Mother Jones High Park Wildfire, Colorado: USDA via Flickr The extreme weather that began in June (see Deanna Pan’s MoJo coverage here) has rolled over into July. Yesterday—only the first day of the month—was brutal enough to shatter 27 records and tie 24 records for the highest ever [...]

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Study predicts more hot spells in Southern California

2012-6-24 – 1:40 pm

“The study raises concerns about Los Angeles’ water supplies, which are replenished by snow and water captured by local mountain chains.”

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Welcome to the Sacrifice Zone

2012-6-14 – 12:40 pm

Fracking would be permitted only in counties in the southwest portion of the state, bordering Pennsylvania—Broome, Chenango, Steuben, and Tioga counties

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Moral Authority to govern Canada

2012-2-29 – 7:33 pm

In this world today, what’s good for oil companies is what’s good.

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About to be fracked over

2012-2-27 – 3:01 pm

Speaking of a quicker end to Life on the Planet as We know It, the totalitarians capitalists are telling us that Alaska has “a mother lode of shale oil and natural gas.”

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A Shared Concern with Declining Himalayan Glaciers

2012-2-13 – 1:15 pm

Praful Bidwai gives a wakeup call.

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Home Rule Democracy? Whiskey Tango Frack?

2012-1-27 – 9:04 pm

“Fracking? It’s all about water,” states the author, Ellen Cantarow

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