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More on Pickens: FOX offers soapbox for Pickens mouthpiece; Milloy responds by TokyoTom

FOX offers soapbox for Pickens mouthpiece Warren Mitchell (former chairman of Southern California Gas Company and San Diego Gas & Electric, and director and head of the compensation committee of Pickens' owned Clean Energy Fuels); Steven Milloy...

Bootleggers and Baptists in Texas and DC: Texas sells Pickens eminent domain powers and wind power transmission rights for his personal 8-acre "water district", while Sierra Club helps to push wind subsidies by TokyoTom

[Update: David Zetland at his Aquanomics blog has linked to my piece , astutely noting that if one applies Bruce Yandle `s "Bootleggers and Baptists" metaphor to Pickens' campaign for wind power and transmission subsidies, Pickens as Bootlegger...

T. Boone Pickens accelerates the tragedy of the Western water commons - by connecting thirsty markets to unowned, common-pool resources by TokyoTom

The latest Business W eek magazine sports the headline, "Is Water the New Oil?" and a caricature of T. Boone Pickens . The cover story -" There Will Be Water: T. Boone Pickens thinks water is the new oil—and he's betting $100...

LA residents to drink recycled sewage, plus more on water rights "reform" by TokyoTom

1. According to the New York Times , in the face of the difficulties and high costs of obtaining rights to more water, the mayor of LA has just announced plans for $1 billion in investments to increase municipal water supplies by capturing water from...
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"Worldwatch" enviro group praises moves to water rights and markets in China by TokyoTom

Yingling Liu , manager of the China Program at the Worldwatch Institute , has praised recent steps by Chinese water authorities to clarify rights to water and to encourage water trading as a means to resolve serious issues over the use of water. Here...

Bad news and needed institutional change: Climate change, water and water rights by TokyoTom

Climate change is having a significant impact on water supplies in the US Southwest and elsewhere. Scientists increasingly that these impacts can be attributed to human influences on climate - but that is to some degree besides the point. Presently, water...
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