Gilbert Watch received the following information from Tracy Langston relating to some Mesa Planning meetings. Three meetings have already taken place. There is a meeting Thursday, April 4, and two more will occur next week. Please see details below for contact information if you would like to attend.
“Big changes are in the works for Mesa. It’s important to have a voice in those changes.
Agenda 21
Statewide Tour: Presentation Discussing Agenda-21
The following presentation was written by Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. Both he and Heather Gass from the San Francisco Bay area have been briefing Arizona Legislators and others on the tenets of Agenda 21 and their impact on Arizona business, industry, rural communities, change in our representative form of government, the threat to law enforcement, and the economic impact we will experience if Agenda 21 becomes even more reality than is present within our state.
Read moreHorne Files Legal Appeal As EPA Tries To Force $1 Billion Scheme On Arizona Utilities & Customers For Pollution Control Effort That Would Have No Discernible Effect.
Related to Patrick O’Malley’s article titled Arizona’s Drinking Water, CAP, NGS, and the EPA, you might be interested in the Legal appeal that Attorney General Tom Horne has filed. Here’s an excerpt:
"This attempt by the EPA has nothing to do with ensuring clean air and everything to do with trying to eliminate coal as a source of electricity,” Horne added. “The terrible irony of this is that the supposed improvement in visibility the EPA wants to achieve is not even visible to the human eye. These plants are being told to reduce haze that cannot even be seen and has no effect on a person’s health. That is ludicrous, and it causes a tremendous hardship to every Arizonan who uses electricity or drinks water; in other words, everyone.”
Arizona’s Drinking Water, CAP, NGS, and the EPA
by Patrick O’Malley
Precinct Committeeman
Treasurer
LD 12 / Queen Creek Precinct
Everybody in the East Valley relies on Central Arizona Project (CAP) for their drinking water. All the larger cities including Phoenix, Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, and others rely primarily on CAP and SRP canal water as the source for their drinking water, with wells mostly for backup. CAP is both the biggest water provider and the biggest electricity customer in Arizona.
It takes a lot of electricity to move water uphill from the Colorado River through Phoenix and on to Tucson. The Navajo Generating Station (NGS) located near Page is a coal fired power plant and it supplies 90% of CAP’s electricity. CAP receives special rates because they consume about 25% of all the power NGS generates.
Worsley’s Windfarm: Public Protest!!
GilbertWatch has previously reported on Bob Worsley’s penchant for grubbing for tax dollars to help him launch the Obama Administration’s “green, renewable” energy projects. Worsley’s Snowflake White Mountain Energy plant went bankrupt in July 2010, after he, investors, and the taxpayers pumped $53 million into it. He sold it for $4.75 million. The new owner, Najafi Cos. has put it into better financial and operating condition, following Worsley’s mismanagement.
Read moreThis is How a Wind Turbine Takes out a Vulture
This vulture was caught on video by two paragliding pilots who happened to be there when it happened. They captured it and transported it to a wildlife hospital. The bird survived and "every effort is being made to help the two year old vulture recover and to be released again one day in its natural habitat, but the outcome is more than uncertain."
A 70-foot blade weighs 2 tons and travels 140 mph at tip speed.