We are certainly on the same page as to allowing the oil line to be routed through the aquifer. Where potential breaks could contaminate such an important resource. There are other routes it could take. However no matter where it would be planned. The same environmental groups would find reasons in the suggested area to stop or protest it. It is why I related it to Foxy thinking. Tunnel vision prevents compromise or flexible reasoning. It does not allow for weighing one view against the other.
The Calif. line spill was a disaster no doubt. What people don't realize is. Replacing a pipeline is near equivalent to building a new one when it comes to permitting, reviews and protests. So companies almost criminally shy away from it much longer than they should. Up grades like Enbridge is doing is a teeter totter. How can a lawmaker or any environmental group justifiably deny or protest making it safer with higher quality materials. Resistant to corrosion due to higher molybdenum content, stronger thicker walls reducing breaks and leaks. ?
The trade off is the company nearly doubles it's flow capacity. Long term it not only covers the billions of dollar cost but will benefit the company with greater returns.
Weather patterns have shifted and rotated thru out history. Earth is not evaporating less water. The warming actually evaporates more. What is happening in Arizona is a shift of weather patterns world wide.
Many areas are getting like the eastern parts are receiving far more precipitation than ever before.
The water shortage in AZ. is real. The vast increase in population compared to yester year. During these draught periods now taxes the ground reserves far greater than it used to. It is not only the resident population. There is also an influx of over 1/2 a million snowbirds from Canada and northern US states further taxing what water there is. Yuma alone gets 100,000 permanent and 300,000 visiting the city. The figure increases yearly. When one considers Bullhead, Havasu, Quartzite, Phoenix, Tucson Benson and all other locations. I doubt the a half a million would be large enough. Tourism is as a major driver of AZ's winter economy. Elmer says water is no problem ?
water.usgs.gov
It has happened thru out history. Biblically recorded famines. In China famines have been an ongoing problem for thousands of years. There have always been times and places where rains have failed, especially in the northwest of China, and this has led to famine. Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, China has recorded no fewer than 1828. However governments and their bureaucracy in many cases serve to aggrandize the problem by ill advised policies.
theguardian.com
I do believe the weather patterns will again shift water back to AZ. We just don't know how soon.
The bigger problem in my opinion is the increasing population naturally, and by immigration drawing on a finite resource. With no enforceable Federal policies on sharing of water resources for the benefit of the Nation as a whole.
In this case the Sum on the country, must be considered far more important than the rites of its individual parts.
In our Province the stupidity of Government is going th flood enough rich producing farmland. . That can feed 1 million people. by building the site C dam to produce electricity. While the rest of the province is under restriction of development of farmable lands
A Preimier bent on building a monument to herself as a legacy. 1 Neuclear reactor built away from any community,. Would produce as much with a tiny footprint.
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