TT`s Lost in Tokyo : water rights

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

TokyoTom — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:35:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

TokyoTom — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:06:00 GMT

[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...(read more)

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

TokyoTom — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:20:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

TokyoTom — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:10:00 GMT

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...(read more)

"Worldwatch" enviro group praises moves to water rights and markets in China

TokyoTom — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:55:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

TokyoTom — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:43:00 GMT

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...(read more)