by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210930-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1633139517
“Jerry Keir, executive director of the nonprofit Great Basin Institute who was helping to manage the project, had lined up eight contractors to bid on the work. The crews would be responsible for thinning dense sections of forest and removing enough brush to allow for prescribed burns and wildfires to safely move through the trees — measures that should keep flames small and allow firefighters to stop their spread. Lastly, Keir had cobbled together the money to pay for it all, signing a final agreement for a $1.2 million grant from the state of California’s Sierra Nevada Conservancy in August.
“A week later, the Caldor Fire erupted and, as Keir put it, ‘a whole lot of time and money went up in smoke.’”
Feature: JFK Speeches Toward a Nation Wide TVA
Usually I place the Feature each week at the end of these reports. But I do wish you, the readers, to have your attention called to this week’s. So here it is:
Unless we unleash once again the spirit of building great projects, and in this case, water projects, as part of the re-Americanization of the U.S. economy once again, the current breakdown of the global and U.S. supply chain is only the beginning of the disintegration of the real, physical economy.
We present immediately below three videos of President John Kennedy’s dedication of water projects in the Western states in 1962. Next week’s report will present three more videos of his dedication of three more water projects in the West in 1963.
The narrator is Michael Kirsch of LaRouche PAC, and the videos were produced and posted on December 6, 2011.
Then, having become, I hope, inspired by President Kennedy, I urge you to respond to a call to action by LaRouche PAC by helping to circulate a “Resolution to Re-Americanize the U.S. Economy,” now being circulated. That call is an excellent tool everyone can use to open up others to the kind of ideas that this nation used to represent when we had real leadership. The resolution can be found here:
Now, the videos:
In August, 1962, President John Kennedy took a quick trip to the western states to dedicate three great water projects.
First was a stop in South Dakota to dedicate the Oahe Dam, at the time the largest earth-filled dam in the world. It is located on the Missouri River and creates Lake Oahe, the fourth largest man-made reservoir in the United States. The first video below is of that dedication.
The second stop was in Colorado to dedicate the construction of the Frying Pan project. That is the second video.
The final stop on this trip was at Los Banos, California to dedicate, and, as he joked, to blow up the valley to begin construction of the San Luis dam and reservoir. The third video is below.
A Note to Readers for the rest of this week’s report:
It begins with the U.S. Drought Monitor for the West and for California.
Drought is not expected to be alleviated this coming winter, and several statements and studies are presented to provide discussion of that possibility.
In fact, increasingly, we see more and more articles discussing how the West may be in not only a megadrought, but a permanent drought.
Even the reservoir levels are falling faster than expected. For example we have this headline: “New estimates show Colorado River levels falling faster than expected.”
Next, the report has a summary of what $15 billion new spending by Governor Newsom will cover. The headline reads, “California Gov. Newsom commits $15B to combat wildfire, drought and climate change .”
The report concludes with this article, which more than a slogan, demonstrates the decades of virtually no management of the forests is too late for millions of acres of those forests. The title of the article is: “Wildfire control projects are burning up before they can even start.”
