California Water and Infrastructure Report For November 11, 2021

California Water and Infrastructure Report For November 11, 2021

by Patrick Ruckert

www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20211111 California Water and Infrastructure Report.pdf?_t=1636831335

“The more fundamental policies which threaten hyperinflation are:

1. Fifty-plus years of taking down the ability of our nation and our workforce to produce and advance. Free trade, out-sourcing, deregulation, financial asset-stripping, and, more recently, COVID-related shutdowns and firings and green ‘decarbonization’ policies, have deindustrialized our economy, leaving us lacking in basic manufacturing, agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and skilled workers.
2. The unleashing of a global financial monster, in the form of central banks and private financial entities, which wield more power than nations, and which have bent nations to their will, securing trillions of dollars in bailouts, and imposing criminal policies through their enormous financial control.”

From: “Only the American System Can Rescue the U.S. from Hyperinflation,” on page 10 below.

A Note to Readers

Our nation is in the midst of a profound change of direction, as we witnessed in the elections of November 2. To ensure that those who are in revolt against the Biden administration, the woke culture and especially the destructive focus on “climate change,” some education is in order. We begin that this week with our Feature– “Hyperinflation: It is Time for the American System.”

In the rest of this week’s report:

Drought is still with us, and will stay with us for some time yet. The rains of the last two weeks have been important, but all the forecasts tend to say that it will be a dry winter for the Southwest.

The U.S. Drought Monitor this week indicates that it is only Washington State and parts of Oregon that have emerged from the most extreme categories of drought, as most of the storms hitting the west coast are pushed north. Southern California especially is deep in drought and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has declared a drought emergency following the Newsom administration’s lead of the same a few weeks ago.

On page 6 is coverage of the Biden $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed by the Congress a few days ago. Of course, in the real world of presidents like Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, a grab bag of maybe useful projects are good and necessary, but as Lyndon LaRouche has always emphasized, it is only scientific progress and transformational projects that create a new more productive platform for real economic development. Lincoln’s Transcontinental Railroad, FDR’s Rural Electrification Administration and the building of the Central Valley Project, the Tennessee Valley Project, Grand Coulee Dam and many more, exemplify that principle. JFK’s continuation of the water projects and the Apollo Project to put the first man on the Moon underline that principle also.

Newsom and the capitulation of PG&E to the policy has put Diablo Canyon nuclear plant on a four year countdown to closure. Such insanity has found a new opposition with a broader plan for the plant, which, we hope, helps to begin to reverse the insane decision. From the article included in this report we have the opening paragraphs:

“The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California, the only one still operating in the state, is set to close in 2025. A team of researchers at MIT’s Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab, and Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research; Stanford’s Precourt Energy Institute; and energy analysis firm Lucid Catalyst LLC have analyzed the potential benefits the plant could provide if its operation were extended to 2030 or 2045.

“They found that this nuclear plant could simultaneously help to stabilize the state’s electric grid, provide desalinated water to supplement the state’s chronic water shortages, and provide carbon-free hydrogen fuel for transportation. MIT News asked report co-authors Jacopo Buongiorno, the TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and John Lienhard, the Jameel Professor of Water and Food, to discuss the group’s findings.”

Arizona, California and Nevada have agreed to a contingency plan to save 500,000 acre feet each year in Lake Mead behind the Hoover Dam. What is worrying is that unless drastic action is taken now Lake Mead could become a dead pool in just a few years as the water level continues to fall.

Of course we cannot conclude this report without mentioning the conference of hysterics in Scotland that began on Halloween. The ghouls that have gathered there for the COP-26 Climate Change extravaganza of billionaires, bankers, the royalty of England and even some heads of state, is turning out to be a little disappointing to them. Two articles, one from my colleague Robert Ingraham and the other from Michael Shellenberger should provide you some entertainment for today.

The report concludes with the Feature mentioned above.