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Blackout California
Blackout California The shutdown of the leaking Aliso Canyon underground gas storage facility has caused a loss of about 70bcf of stored gas that Southern California utilities have historically counted on to see them through the hot, high-demand summer months. The California Independent Service Operator (CAISO), which manages the California grid, estimates that as a […]
Southern California Time Bomb: The Ground Surrounding The San Andreas Fault Is ‘Rising And Sinking’
Southern California Time Bomb: The Ground Surrounding The San Andreas Fault Is ‘Rising And Sinking’ If you reside on the west coast, you are living on borrowed time. As you will see below, stress has been building up along the San Andreas fault for more than a century, and scientists tell us that southern California […]
Blackout: California In Power Grid Emergency: “All Customers Should Expect 14 Days Without Power”
Blackout: California In Power Grid Emergency: “All Customers Should Expect 14 Days Without Power” The entire Los Angeles metropolitan area and most of Southern California can expect blackouts this summer. The power grid is under direct threat as a result of the unprecedented, but little reported, massive natural gas leaks at Alisco Canyon that was […]
Oil-Funded Groups Have Spent $2.7 Million To Defeat California Candidates Who Want Climate Action
Oil-Funded Groups Have Spent $2.7 Million To Defeat California Candidates Who Want Climate Action Groups funded largely by oil companies have spent $2.7 million in California to defeat candidates for the state legislature who support strong climate action. The groups are targeting lawmakers who supported S.B. 32 and S.B. 350, both pieces of legislation designed to rein in California’s greenhouse […]
FAA Warns That Mystery Military Tests May Lead To Widespread West Coast GPS Disruptions
FAA Warns That Mystery Military Tests May Lead To Widespread West Coast GPS Disruptions Starting today, and continuing for the next month, the FAA has warned airplane pilots that GPS signals on on the West Coast, and especially over California and Nevada, may be impacted. The reason why is not exactly clear, but as Gizmodo notes, the US military […]
California Nightmare: Not Progressive Anymore
California Nightmare: Not Progressive Anymore Water management is hardly progressive in California these days. Photo: roam and shoot/Flickr CC. If one more Californian tells me how “progressive” California is, I am going to scream. “Progressivism” is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems that were introduced to America by industrialization. […]
FBI Caught Planting Microphones Under Rocks, Inside Light Fixtures, and at Bus Stops in California
FBI Caught Planting Microphones Under Rocks, Inside Light Fixtures, and at Bus Stops in California When a reporter for the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command interviewed Frank Zappa for the commands news syndicate, the story was held by a superior who demanded that Zappa – who had been rather hard on the army […]
California Lawmakers Move to Prevent Another Disastrous Gas Blowout at Aliso Canyon
California Lawmakers Move to Prevent Another Disastrous Gas Blowout at Aliso Canyon On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 380, which requires rigorous testing protocols to prevent another disastrous blowout at the SoCal Gas Aliso Canyon facility north of Los Angeles. And lawmakers said SB 380 will buy time to fix the larger problem […]
Too Much Water to Waste?
Too Much Water to Waste? Does California have too much water? Seriously. Because our actions are sending peculiar messages. Even the State Water Board has backed off on conservation targets for some water agencies. It’s true, rains have replenished much of Northern California’s reservoirs and Governor Brown’s mandated 25% water restrictions made a serious dent […]
Dangers from Pesticides
Dangers from Pesticides Intensive use of pesticides in California and other agricultural centers presents a risk to farmworkers and their families that is still only dimly understood, writes Dennis J Bernstein. Industrialized Agriculture is addicted to chemistry in the form of pesticides. The addiction was marketed to the American People, along with other post World […]
Monsanto is Suing California for Telling People the Truth About Its Chemicals
Monsanto is Suing California for Telling People the Truth About Its Chemicals (ANTIMEDIA) California — Monsanto is suing the State of California for its intent to include glyphosate — the main ingredient in its wildly popular herbicide, Roundup — on its Proposition 65 toxic chemicals list. California’s decision came after the World Health Organization’s International Agency for […]
Will Cap-And-Trade Slow Climate Change?
Will Cap-And-Trade Slow Climate Change? The principle that polluters should pay for the waste they create has led many experts to urge governments to put a price on carbon emissions. One method is the sometimes controversial cap-and-trade. Quebec, California and the European Union have already adopted cap-and-trade, and Ontario will join Quebec and California’s system in January […]
Oil Industry Caused 2005 Swarm of California Earthquakes: Newly Published Study
Oil Industry Caused 2005 Swarm of California Earthquakes: Newly Published Study Oil and gas wastewater disposal has been tied to a series of earthquakes in California for the first time, in a peer-reviewed study published last Thursday. A string of quakes ending on Sept. 22, 2005 struck in Kern County near the southern end of […]
Saudi Arabia is Buying Up American Farmland to Export Agricultural Products Back Home
Saudi Arabia is Buying Up American Farmland to Export Agricultural Products Back Home Just what we need, cornfield crucifixions. Seriously though, this is very troubling. The Saudis are explicitly conserving their own resources at home, while exploiting land and water supplies here in America. CNBC reports: Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries are scooping up farmland in […]
The Company Behind LA’s Methane Disaster Knew Its Well Was Leaking 24 Years Ago
The Company Behind LA’s Methane Disaster Knew Its Well Was Leaking 24 Years Ago Last fall, a 7-inch injection well pipe ruptured 500 feet below the surface of Los Angeles, after ferrying natural gas for six decades. The resulting methane leak is now being called one of the largest environmental disasters since the BP oil spill, […]
