(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230914-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
A Note to Readers
The Feature this week is an article by my associate Michael Steger, which presents the kind of overall policy required for real economic development, driven by the building of, as he quotes Donald Trump from one of Trump’s recent “Agenda47” videos. Michael writes,”Trump proposes to build ‘hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds,’ of new power plants with the intent of restoring America as a manufacturing superpower.” Like Trump or not, he is the only presidential candidate with an economic development platform.
Meanwhile the real state of the economy was widely reported yesterday in the media under headlines like this one, as reported by “The Hill: “5 states’ residents got richer, but 17 states’ got poorer, new Census data shows.”
The rest of this week’s report:
Drought, as reported by the U.S. Drought Monitor, in California remains almost non-existent. But, Oregon is a different matter. See the U.S. Drought Monitor for California below, and the article on Oregon that follows.
We have an update on the resistance to the Silicon Valley’s zillionaires plot to seize Solano County for their “New Silicon Valley.” Not only are all the members of Congress from the area, all of the state legislators from the area, and all of the elected officials from the area, opposed to the project, but now they have been joined by the Solano County Water Agency, which has rejected offers to buy land crucial for the agency and demanded by the parasites.
Just one item on the Colorado River crisis. That is an article celebrating the rise of Lake Mead by 22 feet during this year. Now the reservoir is 34% of capacity, about 7% better before the last winter.
During the heat wave and electricty crisis in Texas, power prices briefly increased by 20,000%. Meanwhile in Michigan, a nuclear power plant that was shutdown will soon be reopened.
And in California, The State Assembly Votes to Strike Down Electric Vehicle Mandate.
The last item is the Feature, as discussed above.
