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More than 1,100 water suppliers affected, nearly half the state’s residents scavenge for clean water.
By Keith Schneider
Circle of Blue – February 22, 2021
By Saturday, as the deep freeze lifted and temperatures across Texas warmed to near normal for this time of year, water poured from broken lines beneath streets. Fountains of water sprayed from valves and cracks in building exteriors. Indoor waterfalls spilled from caved-in ceilings in schools and homes and hospitals. Homeowners gathered up the last remnants of melting snow and stored them in buckets and bathtubs.
“Where do you want to start?” said Ty Edwards, general manager of the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District in Fort Stockton. Edwards explained why the power outages across the state triggered a water crisis.
https://youtu.be/j-lrN9br2IE Long time energy journalist Keith Schneider evaluates the choice of former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm for Secretary of Energy. I am frustrated that she has not been confirmed yet, because my newest video is just waiting for that to drop.
EPCOR receives grant to build reclaimed water pipeline
PHOENIX â The Arizona Department of Water Resources has awarded EPCOR USA a $250,000 grant to help build a new reclaimed water pipeline for the benefit of San Tan (formerly Johnson Utilities) customers, agricultural water users, and the San Tan Valley region.
This supports water management goals in the Phoenix Active Management Area by reducing demand for groundwater pumping.
Under the terms of the Lower Colorado Basin Drought Contingency Plan (DCP), Arizona stakeholders agreed to offset Central Arizona Project water reductions to agricultural users by making alternate sources available. EPCOR is the only private water company participating in the DCP Mitigation Agreement.
January 18, 2021
For a guy that was supposed to be a pushover, President Biden is coming out of the starting gate with some pretty big punches. On day one, the US will rejoin the Paris Agreement, and cancel the Keystone Pipeline.
Got a bump on this from my friend Dr. Jeff Masters, who added, “Not the Onion.”
Above, my friend Keith Schneider, the Sage of Benzonia Michigan, had the lay of the land right in 2017, when he weighed in on pipelines in the Age of Trump. (which is now, obviously, at an end – knocking on wood)
WASHINGTON The Keystone oil pipeline’s developer plans to announce a series of overhauls including a pledge to use only renewable energy in a bid to win President-elect Joe Biden’s support for the controversial project.