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For a growing segment of the population, questions involving climate change and energy have reached a point where only the most sweeping opposition is sufficient in addressing the looming crisis. In consequence, anything allowing the fossil fuel industry to continue to do business must be met with an unyielding no.
This unyielding resistance was on display in Middlebury at a Public Service Board hearing earlier this week. Vermont Gas Systems has proposed an extension of its natural gas pipeline down from Chittenden to Addison County, from which it would eventually make its way over to the International Paper plant in Ticonderoga, N.Y., and down to Rutland County.
As the PSB learned in Middlebury, a lot of Addison County residents want no part of it.
Opposition to the pipeline comes even though natural gas is a cleaner, cheaper fuel than oil, which it would replace in many places. It comes though businesses say that the availability of gas would be good for business, creating a competitive advantage and helping in the creation of jobs. It comes despite the reduced load of greenhouse gas emissions that would be produced if natural gas were used instead of oil.
Part of the opposition stems from the widespread using of fracking in gas-producing regions to extract gas from underground rock formations. Fracking is the technique of pumping large quantities of water and chemicals underground to force out trapped gas deposits, and it has led to a boom in gas production. Fracked gas is on the market in such abundance now that it is inevitably part of the mix of gas coming to Vermont.
But pollution from fracking itself has been a problem in some places, and environmental examination of the full effects of fracking has still not been accomplished. These uncertainties have only fanned the flames of opposition to the pipeline.
It may be that the most important source of opposition to the pipeline comes from fears of climate change. Action to address the climate crisis has lagged, even as the effects of climate change are galloping ahead. Scientific projections continue to be outpaced by the reality of change. People who see no other way have reached the conclusion that their only recourse is to try to throw as much sand in the gears of the fossil fuel industry as possible.
According to this view, it is past time for reasoning about more or less efficient fossil fuel alternatives, or the advantages to business of natural gas. It is time to shut down the fossil fuel industry, or to hinder it in whatever way is possible — to make the production and use of oil and gas too expensive, not by means of a carbon tax, which would be the reasonable approach, but by the added costs caused by opposition and delay. Out of this sense of frustration, efforts to block the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport tar sands oil from Canada, gained momentum. So has the effort to prevent use of a pipeline in northern Vermont for tar sands oil.
Rejectionism of fossil fuels is behind opposition to the Addison County pipeline. In the meantime, businesses, workers, residents and political leaders maintain a realistic understanding that we live in a fossil fuel economy, and it makes sense, for now, to replace dirty fuel with clean fuel that is cheaper.
It is the job of the Public Service Board to review the Vermont Gas proposal in light of existing laws and regulations, not to mount a revolution against the industry. As long as the climate crisis endures, which will be a long time, these decisions will continue to be made within an atmosphere of urgency, frustration, desperation and crisis, all of which may prove to be a motivation for more aggressive action on climate change. But in the context of the present economy, businesses and residents of Addison and Rutland counties still would benefit from a cleaner, cheaper choice. Saying no to the pipeline would do nothing for the climate, except to limit the option for Vermonters to burn a cleaner fuel.MORE IN EditorialsProtesters converged on a bank in Montpelier early this week to show their solidarity with the... Full StoryPhil Scott will take office next month after winning with a margin of 51.11 percent to 43. Full StoryIdeologues and partisans work from the outcome backward. Full Story
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State legislators considering numerous cuts to school revenues
Numerous niche tax breaks doled out by the state are eroding Michigan's School Aid Fund, resulting in fewer resources for local schools, and education advocates are united in opposing these tax giveaways.
The latest in the long line of breaks is House Bill 4831, which if passed would exempt over-the-counter medications from the sales tax. This would result in a $7.3 million reduction of revenue for the School Aid Fund, according to the nonpartisan House Fiscal Agency.
The legislation is opposed by a coalition of education groups consisting of MEA, the Michigan Association of School Boards, the Middle Cities Education Association, the Michigan Association of School Administrators, the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators, the American Federation of Teachers-Michigan, the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association, and the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals.
"While this particular bill may seem to be only a small decrease to the SAF, when added to the many other policies recently passed and being considered, they continue to erode the School Aid Fund and add up to a significant amount of money over time," the coalition wrote in a recent letter to lawmakers.
Since January, House committees have passed several tax breaks that would reduce revenue to the School Aid Fund. These include:
- Senate Bills 89-90 and House Bill 4234, which would eliminate the sales and use taxes on the difference between the value of a trade-in and new vehicle, resulting in a $152 million loss in school aid
- Senate Bills 142-143, which would eliminate sales and use taxes on prewritten software, causing up to $11 million in lost school revenue
- House Bill 4135, which would eliminate the requirement to pay local school operating mills on foreclosed properties and result in up to $42 million in lost school funding
- House Bill 4572, which would eliminate the sales tax on aviation fuel and reduce school funding by up to $41 million
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What is your compass? Your goal? Your plan? Your driving force. The Bible tells us, 'And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever,' I John 2:17. Without Jesus we are without God and without hope in this lost world, Eph. 2:12. Without Jesus we are like a ship on a stormy sea without a compass.
As we enter this New Year let's be sure to remember that our focus should be eternal. Here are five c's to help. One, use a calendar to help you keep on track. The Bible tells us to be concerned about time, Gal. 4:4. Two, use the clock and plan your days to include Bible study and prayer. Remember, '…night cometh,' John 9:4. Three, Jesus is our compass – everything we do should reflect his guidance. Four, use the computer. God doesn't need a computer, but, if used properly, it can help us stay on track. Five, most importantly, remember, the cross is the essence of our everything, Matt. 6:33; Gal. 2:20; Col. 3:1-4; I Cor. 15:10
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Vermont ACLU discusses surveillance on borderSeptember 17,2013The Associated Press
MONTPELIER - The proliferation of technology that makes it easier to track the lives of ordinary residents prompted the Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday to call on the Legislature to ensure state and local law enforcement agencies don't misuse information that may be available.
To prove how easy it is becoming for law enforcement to monitor the lives of law-abiding residents, the ACLU demonstrated a small, remote control drone that collected video while flying in the skies above the Statehouse in Montpelier.
"If you carry a cellphone, you are being tracked. If you're driving a car, (automatic license plate readers) are picking up where you're going. You've seen what a drone can do. We're going to see hundreds of these things flying overhead in a couple of years," said Allen Gilbert, executive director of the ACLU's Vermont chapter.
In addition to drones and the electronic bread crumb trail left by most people today, Gilbert said Vermonters are more prone to be watched by the government than people in other parts of the country because of the state's proximity to Canada. Within 100 miles of the border, Department of Homeland Security agencies have broad powers to stop motorists.
Gilbert said his organization would ask the Legislature to pass a bill that would regulate the use of aerial drones. The group wants the state to pass a law or establish rules governing police access to "digital face prints," created by facial recognition software used by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
The agency's website says its facial recognition software is designed to protect against identity fraud and to prevent people from getting driver's licenses in multiple states. It says law enforcement agencies "may submit images of suspects in crimes for analysis by DMV investigators."
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I never knew her by Eva, or even Mrs. Philpott. She was Nana, Nana not to only her granddaughter , but all of the people in the area. We were the "young newcomers" trying to "make it" in Hungry Hollow, and Nana and her son, D, befriended us. They invited us to their home regularly. We would all sit around their very small living room watching Lawrence Welk on television. (We didn't have a television in Hungry Hollow. In fact we didn't have electricity, except from the gas-run power plant, which was too expensive for us to run except when absolutely necessary.) The Philpotts lived in a small house in the little community of Dairy. They were not well-to-do and careful with their money, but Nana always had "something" to serve guest, cookies and milk, or popcorn. Every once in a while she would make a pie when she knew we were coming to their home.
Nana was a tiny, quiet and somewhat wizend woman of nearly 80 years when we knew her. I loved to hear her tell stories of when she, her husband, and children homesteaded a 160 acre dry land farm a few miles south of Bonanza. The first years were rough for the Philpotts, as Nana would relate how they had to drive a wagon, or a sled in the winter, down to Lost River, which was their only source of water. They filled barrels of water to haul back up hill to the homestead. Nana, even when we knew her some 50 years later, still watered her flowers with dish water. Some habits die hard.
She taught her children to think and do for themselves. They would make intricate toys – wagons, tractors, plows, cars, or anything they could imagine - out of tin they cut from their fathers tobacco cans. Her son D was a gifted mechanic and could make anything run that had wheels, tracks, and/ or an engine – and usually at a cost far less that the city mechanics in Klamath Falls.
At one time with their frugal ways and hard labor, Nana and her husband had increased their ranch to a couple thousand acres. They ran some stock, raised some fruit, and dry land grain. After Nana's husband died, over a decade before, the ranch was sold, debts paid off and she went to live with D and his daughter.
Nana was the mother figure for her granddaughter as the mother was not a part of the household. I remember how loving and gentle she was with her granddaughter, as well as my young children. Those evenings spent in the Philpott home were a gift to us then, and now the memories are indeed special.
About the same time that we left Hungry Hollow for a new life as college students at Washington State University, Nana's health was failing and she went to Portland to live near or with her youngest son. We lost contact with those good people in Hildebrand and never saw Nana again.
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Cleaning out the pantry always makes hungry. Come to think of it, so does packing. And lugging laundry. But the truth is, this time of year- anything can make me hungry. I could blame it on shorter daylight. Or the jarring touch of the cold tile floor when I tumble out of bed barefoot and sleepy and weave through boxes of books and movies to locate my tea mug, gone missing since three PM yesterday when I set it down- goddess knows where- to help my husband wrap one of my abstract paintings.
All of it makes me hungry.
10 Things That Make Me Hungry
- The relief of selling the house after 30 months of showings and price reductions and contracts falling through
- The excitement of starting over
- Letting go of the outgrown (again)
- Snapping a photo of my last full moon in the desert
- Finding childhood photographs of Colin and Alex on the beach
- Realizing we'll be gone before the second anniversary of the hip incident
- Finding a fourth floor studio to rent- six blocks from Santa Monica beach
- The sheer joy of shedding stuff
- Buying tickets to The Canyon showing at Grauman's Chinese Theater
- Thinking about tomorrow rather than yesterday
Originally published January 2007.I whipped up this quick and easy chowder to fortify our California-dreamin' souls. The recipe is a simple improv, straight from the pantry. The coconut milk makes it dairy-free.
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon gluten-free red curry paste
1 14 or 15-oz can pumpkin
1 14-oz can Muir Glen Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes with Green Chiles
1 heaping cup roasted corn kernels
1/2 cup GF salsa (I use a jalapeno-cilantro salsa)
1 cup light broth
1 14-oz. can coconut milk, as needed
Sea salt and fresh ground pepper
Chopped cilantro, to taste- dried or fresh
1 teaspoon raw organic agave nectar
Juice from 1 fresh lime
Heat the olive oil in a heavy soup pot over medium-low heat and add the garlic, cumin and curry paste; stir for one minute. Add the pumpkin, fire roasted tomatoes with green chiles, roasted corn, and salsa. Stir to combine.
Heat the olive oil in a heavy soup pot over medium-low heat and add the garlic, cumin and curry paste; stir for one minute. Add the pumpkin, fire roasted tomatoes with green chiles, roasted corn, and salsa. Stir to combine.
Add the broth. Heat through to a simmer, and begin adding the coconut milk; start with one cup. If you like it creamy, add more. Season with sea salt and ground pepper, cilantro and sherry. Heat through gently and bring to a slow simmer.
Taste test and add the fresh lime juice to brighten the flavor. Stir. Add more spice if you need more heat; add more agave and/or coconut milk if you need less heat.
Serve with organic blue corn tortilla chips.
Makes four servings.
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Nutty Applesauce Bread
Try this tasty bread toasted with Smucker's® Apple Butter for a great breakfast treat, too.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 45 min
- Ready Time: 60 min
- Yield: 1 loaf
- Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 2 cups Homemade Crisco® Quick Bread Mix
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 3/4 cup finely chopped nuts
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- Cream cheese (optional)
Preparation Directions
- HEAT oven to 350ºF. Spray a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan with no-stick cooking spray.
- COMBINE Homemade Crisco Quick Bread Mix, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and nuts in large bowl. Beat egg with a fork. Stir in applesauce. Add to dry ingredients. Stir only until moistened. Pour into prepared pan.
- BAKE 40 to 45 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 10 minutes in pan on a rack. Remove from pan and cool slightly on a rack before slicing.
- SERVE with cream cheese, if desired.
Nutritional Information Per Serving
Serving Size (1 slice, 1/12 of loaf), Calories 210 (Calories from Fat 100), Total Fat 11g (Saturated Fat 2g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 20mg, Sodium 260mg, Total Carbohydrate 26g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 11g), Protein 3g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 8%, Iron 8%.
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
* Ensure all recipe ingredients are gluten free by referencing the ingredient labels, as products may vary. If uncertain, contact the ingredient manufacturer.


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The Consumer Price Index rose 0.2 percent in March, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics said increases in the shelter and food costs accounted for most of the rise.
See how much things like homes, cars and milk cost in 1914 when compared with today's average prices.
Cars: In 1914, the average cost of a car like this old Dodge Brothers Touring Car cost $500.
In 2014, the average price of a new car is is $32,086.
Gas: In 1914, a gallon of gas would set you back 12 cents.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that the average retail price of regular-grade gasoline for the rest of 2014 is $3.44 per gallon.
Houses: $3,500 would give you and your family a home back in 1914.
According to the census bureau, the average price for a new home in the U.S. as of Feb. 2014 is $317,500.
In 1914, a gallon of milk cost 12 cents.
The average price for a gallon of milk was $3.50 at the end of 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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While expressing pleasure that ACT scores increased for Illinois high school graduates in 2001, State Superintendent of Education Glenn W. McGee said he remains concerned by the achievement gap between minorities and their white classmates.
Illinois students' average score on the ACT college entrance examination continued to inch forward while national averages remained stable for the fifth straight year. Illinois' class of 2001 averaged 21.6 on the 36-point scale, up from 21.5 for seniors in 2000. Nationally, seniors averaged 21.0, the same as the previous four years. In contrast, Illinois averages on the ACT were 21.2 in 1997, 21.4 in 1998 and 1999, 21.5 in 2000, and 21.6 in 2001. The 2001 average is the highest level ever achieved by Illinois students.
"The good news is that Illinois scores are progressing," said State Superintendent of Education Glenn W. McGee, "yet this year's ACT results reinforce the need to continue our efforts to reduce the achievement gap between minorities and white students. The gap in scores is a huge concern and a situation that we must change.
"Much of the achievement gap is attributable to the huge impact of poverty on achievement," McGee stated, 'but the ACT report shows that participation rates in core coursework remains much less for minorities than for white students, even though participation rates of minority students increased in 2001." ACT defines a core curriculum as at least four years of English and three years each of mathematics, social sciences and natural sciences.
As a part of the state's new Prairie State Achievement Examination, all eleventh grade students (class of 2002) took the ACT in April. Those scores are not reflected in today's report, which includes only scores for students graduating in 2001. Statewide results of the PSAE and its ACT component will be announced this fall.
"The ACT was incorporated into the PSAE because many of the ACT items correlate well with the Illinois Learning Standards that describe what students should know and be able to do before graduating," McGee explained. "The fact that Illinois scores are continuing their upward trend may be another indicator that the rigorous Illinois Learning Standards are starting to take hold in our schools."
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Food Service DTF
Meeting Minutes
November 6, 2000
Attendance: Robyn Herring Chuck McKinney Piper Kapin Russell Garafalo Kevin Anderson Beckie Kjer Kathleen Haskett Shoni Schlotzhauer Eva Clark Mike Arnow Jackson Sillars
1. Review binder / RFP
2. University of Washington update
3. Attempted Budget
4. Wednesday Group
The agenda was reordered b/c of some people needing to leave early.
University of Washington:
Tentatively coming on Friday 17th.
Friday the 17th is inauguration, We are hoping that they will come down at noon, tour the operations, have lunch and then talk to us about budget and Q&A time.
Chuck will look into other dates, but their time frame seems tight and we really need them here before Thanksgiving break.
Wednesday Food Group:
There are a group of students and staff who have been meeting for the last 5-6 weeks to research what options we have available for food here at Evergreen. The group is a culmination of already organized students and community members who had formed Alternatives To Corporate Food (ACTF) and Participation In Food Decisions (PIFD), as well as other Evergreen community members.
It is important that Fine Host Employees understand that they are welcome to be a part of the meetings and research, but that it is not the intent of this group to take on current labor issues.
We are all interested and supportive of the issues, but with such a narrow time frame the group needs to focus on compiling research. It is very appropriate and needed that we have input from current workers especially if we are going to look at a worker run model.
The group is attempting to seriously gather and evaluate alternative options to our current food service in many different configurations.
It is going to be essential that we bring that group into this one for them to share this research. While the DTF is going to be exploring the management options�the work of the Wednesday group will be very important once we pull through some of the initial major decisions.
The intention of the Wednesday group is looking for options that don't have exclusive corporate vendors on campus.
We need the Wednesday group to come and present on December 11th to the DTF.
We need to be clear that there are no guarantees on any particular model.
Also that if their model is created with in the confines of a self-operation, that we are able to use the ideas if we end up with a different model.
We will know more about what is feasible after the University of Washington comes down.
We also have the option of requesting shorter contracts if we need some time to make a full transition. Many schools out there go with 5-year contracts.
Chuck is compiling a prospective budget that will give us three options to evaluate.
1. Actual for last year
2. Fine Host's Bid for future (minor improvements to the facilities)
3. Guestimate based on required state salaries and benefit packages w/ no radical changes for a self-operation.
This prospective budget will be e-mailed around this week.
Do we have the authority to go self-op? The board of trustees will make that decision. Yes it is feasible. There may need to be a price raise, but people might be supportive of that?
We need to explore the card system.
Possibly look into the school buying the card system.
Q&A (about the RFP):
What about the architectural plans that was developed from the DTF? Are they going to be of any use to us?
The estimates were for 3.5-6 million dollars This makes it not very relevant to this decision because we can't expect this kind of funding until 4-5 years down the road.
What are branded concepts? What is the role of branded concepts in Evergreen's policy? Will this limit us at all? What is the distinction in the Evergreen policy between McDonalds and a local business??
We will need to clarify this more, but it has to do with national chains and corporations we think.
What are the nutritional program requirements?
Just that whatever vendor comes in is expected to meet all the needs of the community.
What about putting language in regarding using the campus organic farm? We have to be careful with that.
We cannot force them b/c it will create and employee/ employer relationship between the college and the contractor. There are legal ramifications involved; not to say that it cannot be done.
We need to gather job classifications and pay rates to plug into budget projections. Piper will gather that information and pass it along to chuck.
Self Op:
We need to gather questions to ask U.W.
1. How do they handle accountability within their management?
2. Who do they report to?
We should all compile questions in the next week and then we will discuss and finalize for when U.W. comes down at the next meeting.
We need to figure out if we need NACUFS and how much lead time they need.
Next Week:
1. Review budget
2. Questions for U.W.
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Is Chuck Schumer a Friend of Israel?
Now that President Obama has nominated a Senator Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary, we will see who the real friends of Israel are. Jews, particularly in New York State, are very interested in whether their Senator — Chuck Schumer — has the moxie to stand up against the Hagel nomination.
The litany of Hagel's sympathy for the Palestinians, and his willingness to equate Israel's moral position with those of the Hezbollah/Hams terrorists is there for all to see.
Hagel won the praise of Hezbollah in 2006, which said, "Except for Sen. Chuck Hagel, no one in Congress is willing to stand up to the Israeli Lobby."
Invited to be the keynote speaker at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Hagel said Washington should cultivate "a deeper level of understanding of what's at stake and of what the people — especially the Palestinian people — have endured over the last 50 or 100 years."
After an outbreak of suicide/homicide bombings in Israel, Hagel made clear that he believes Israel was, in part, to blame by saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has "essentially stopped the [peace] process." Hagel has also said, "The Israeli government essentially continues to play games … What I fear more today is that desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today."
Saying, "I'm not an Israeli Senator, I'm an American Senator," Hagel complained in a recent interview that, "The Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here [in Washington]."
Hagel has opposed tough sanctions on Iran.
And, in October of 2000, he was one of only four Senators who refused to co-sign a letter to President Clinton expressing solidarity with Israel as it was subjected to the repeated terrorist attacks of a new Palestinian intifada. Indeed, Hagel also refused to sign a letter initiated by Senator Joe Biden, calling for a re-evaluation of relations with the Palestinian authority in light of the attacks.
Schumer holds the key to the Hagel nomination. Republicans will oppose his confirmation. If Schumer leads the way, other Democratic Senators from states with large Jewish populations — Nelson and Lautenberg (N.J.), Gillibrand (N.Y.), Nelson (Fla.) and Boxer and Feinstein (Calif.) will feel pressure to follow suit.
So what will it be Chuck? Stand up for Israel or cave in?
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If we don't get our energy here, where will we get it?
A few weeks ago, a Texas oilman cornered me at a brewery in the high-mountain town of Ouray, in western Colorado. Some young women from Moab had just taken the table next to my friend and myself, when the fellow wandered over to buy us a round.
Eventually, he revealed that he worked for ConocoPhillips. This didn't go over well with the Utah ladies, and Mr. ConocoPhillips grew defensive: Did they think the vehicle they had driven here ran on rainbows? When he found out I covered the industry as a reporter, he leaned in tipsily and asked, "Can we have a conversation? A real conversation?"
The answer was apparently no, since what ensued felt like an energy-focused version of writer Rebecca Solnit's essay, "Men explain things to me."
But if he had gotten past his assumption that I was an airy naïf, he would have realized that I mostly agreed with him: As drilling impinges on more communities, those communities need to have "real," critical conversations about energy development, conversations in which the locals recognize their role as consumers.
Paonia, Colo., where I live and work, recently became such a town. Last December, nearly 30,000 acres in the surrounding North Fork Valley were nominated for oil and gas leasing. Though the proposal was deferred this summer for further study, in November, the Bureau of Land Management announced its intent to auction about 20,000 of those acres Feb. 14.
Given the habitat fragmentation and pollution that energy development can bring, many here have fought the proposal. Some of the earlier leases sprawled across mountain biking areas or sat next to schools. Others encompassed springs that feed the town water system or surrounded irrigation ditches for ranches, organic farms and vineyards. As Peter Heller reported in an essay for Bloomberg BusinessWeek this July, the North Fork Valley "is home to the largest concentration of organic farms in the Rocky Mountains. … The valley produces 77 percent of the state's apples, 71 percent of its peaches." The BLM received nearly 3,000 comments on the proposal, mostly in opposition.
"None of (those) issues … are incompatible with oil and gas development," Steven Hall, BLM's Colorado communications director, told Heller. Even so, in its latest proposal, the agency removed a couple of the more controversial parcels, including the one closest to Paonia's water supply and another containing a popular trail network.
Most of the parcels remain, though. Worse, the sale would occur under the terms of the outdated Resource Management Plan, a 23-year-old document which governs development on hundred of thousands of acres. If the agency waited, it could re-examine the proposal under the updated version -- due in draft this spring -- which, in theory, would allow it to account for advances in drilling technology and changes to the area's economy, demographics and environment. That might help the agency strike a clearer balance between energy development and other interests.
At an environmental film festival in Paonia soon after the BLM's decision, the audience booed throughout a Google Earth tour of the parcels still up for lease. When a staffer from the conservation group who hosted the event noted that the mountain biking parcel had been withdrawn, discontent only grew. Many refused to accept any leasing whatsoever.
Opponents believe, as do their counterparts in many communities facing oil and gas development, that some places are too special to drill. It's a valid view; I often share it. But that raises an uncomfortable question: Are there any places so unspecial that they should be drilled? Mr. ConocoPhillips knows well that few of us in Paonia or elsewhere can say we don't rely on these fuels -- for heat, for transport, for electricity, for the fertilization of food. Every place matters to somebody. And what patch of Earth isn't habitat for at least a few wonderful somethings?
As Bobby Reedy, who runs a local auto shop in Paonia, told Heller: "I wanna flick the light switch and know the lights are gonna come on. If it's not in my backyard, whose is it gonna be in?"
If we continue to insist on living as we do now, maybe we need to see drill rigs from our kitchen windows and hiking trails, even our school playgrounds.
How else can we truly understand the costs of something we use unless we're confronted with them daily? This isn't just the machinery of corporate greed; it's the machinery of our vast collective energy appetite. And if we can't look directly at it, and can't accept what it does to our water and air, then it's time to do more than just fight drilling. It's time to go on an energy diet.
Sarah Gilman is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News in Paonia, Colorado, where she is the magazine's associate editor
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As to "If we don't get our energy here...", it's pretty clear that, whoever "we" is, is getting energy HERE, so they can sell it over THERE. This has nothing to do with energy self-sufficiency or independence. See, e.g., "Fracking for Foreigners" (http://www.prwatch.org/news[…]s-backs-natural-gas-exports).
Thanks for your comment. I repurposed the blog post as a Writers on the Range column for broader publication through our syndication service. Because papers from all over the West publish pieces they receive through this service, editor Betsy Marston changed the title to be clearer and more enticing to a wider audience who might have no idea where or what the North Fork Valley is.
As to your point about exports, the vast majority of natural gas produced in the U.S. is still burned in the U.S. for the simple reason that the only practical way to move it right now is by pipeline. Yes, there are several liquid natural gas terminals in the works right now, but this is an enormously energy intensive and expensive way to move the fuel, and is even more politically unpopular than fracking. Even if all of them are built, you won't see more than a fraction of U.S. gas going overseas. Meanwhile, the gas produced in the Rockies is headed to West Coast and Midwest markets, not down to the Gulf where the U.S.'s existing LNG terminals are. As a matter of fact, the U.S. is the globe's largest consumer of natural gas, and it does indeed still have to import natural gas to meet domestic demand -- about 8 percent, even with the glut of shale gas produced in the recent boom that dropped the bottom out of the natural gas market. Please see the federal energy information administration for more information: http://www.eia.gov/[…]/index.cfm?page=natural_gas_imports
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Your points are well taken regarding the current disposition/movement of U.S. natural gas resources. There is no question that, for better or worse, the majority of U.S. natural gas production will be consumed domestically.
But oil & gas companies are so furiously ramping up the intensity of extraction that even U.S. demand can't keep up. I am aware of the assessments/projections of the EIA (see, e.g., their Annual Energy Outlook), and indeed, these and other government data indicate that the U.S. will be a net exporter of natural gas within 8 years, and a net exporter of liquified natural gas within 3 years. We are ALREADY a net exporter of refined petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel... in fact that is our TOP export, even more than weapons.
One might wonder, naively, why aren't we stockpiling this excess production, in the interest of 'energy independence'? Well, because everybody involved, both government and industry, knows that this would only briefly delay the inevitable... for example, at 2010 consumption rates, the ENTIRE U.S. TRR (Technically Recoverable Resource) of shale gas would meet U.S. natural gas demand for less than 20 yrs; the entire Marcellus shale, which contains vastly more gas than the proposed North Fork Valley lease area, would last less than 6 yrs.
So, does it really make sense to let an already heavily subsidized industry become even more obscenely bloated with profit, while they foul our water and air to extract and sell what amounts to a pathetic, short-lived crutch? The fossil fuel industries KNOW this is a dead end resource that's not going to make us energy-independent, not going to rescue us from reliance on foreign 'terrorists', or anything of the sort. Their sole motivation here is simply PROFIT. They mean to sell, to whoever happens to be lined up at the trough, every ounce of fossil fuel they can extract, as fast as they can, WHILE they still can.
As such I think your question (If we don't get our energy here, where will we get it?) may be misapplied here... it's reminiscent (even if unintentionally) of the absurd canard often voiced by industry proponents, i.e., that the NIMBYs should buck up and 'take a hit for the team', for the sake of the American way of life, or some such. That is not the situation at all. Rather, this is not acceptable in ANYONE'S backyard... it is demonstrably dangerous, toxic, wasteful, short-sighted, and intended solely to benefit privately-held companies through the exploitation and destruction of public resources.
Yes, we CAN get our energy here. But not on these terms. Meanwhile, as you suggest, an energy diet is called for, until rational source(s) and infrastructure can be developed. But speaking of politically unpopular, recall Jimmy Carter barely escaping with his life for even suggesting that we might turn down the thermostat a few degrees.
Didn't mean to make it sound like I was berating you about the headline question. I understand why it took its present form, and I further gather that we're more in agreement than not on this issue.
As to your question, "Would you really argue against reducing energy use?", I would say, of course not, and I don't think I've submitted anything thus far that would suggest that.
But I would note that it's not energy use per se that's the problem, i.e., there is no inherent ecological harm in, say, transforming electrical energy into mechanical work. Clearly the problem lies with the destructive and wasteful ways we PRODUCE that energy, and the similarly foolish ways we utilize it.
It's also clear, as you note, that the U.S. is a monster per-capita energy hog (although see, e.g., Kuwait). The Earth simply could not support a population of 7 billion people if they were all consuming resources at the U.S. rate... indeed, even the existing situation is unsustainable. As I think you perceive, for any given lifestyle (i.e., rate of resource extraction/consumption, waste generation, etc), there is a corresponding global carrying capacity, and we have clearly exceeded it. That is, in a finite time, this system will collapse, perhaps irreversibly.
So then, a rather more subtle question is, can we, or should we (presuming we still have time), try to settle on something like a 'target' lifestyle, calculate the corresponding global carrying capacity, and reduce (as necessary) the global population to a level at which such lifestyle could persist in equilibrium with the environment indefinitely? I think it's beyond us, but it's an intriguing concept.
It's often argued that there are historic and existing examples of lifestyles that are of such minimal impact that the Earth could support an additional X billions of people. Well, yes, but that is not particularly compelling, any more than pointing out that the whole world's population could fit into the state of Texas. There's no question that, with sufficient sacrifice of comfort, capabilities, and freedom of movement, substantially larger human populations are possible.
But why obsess over how to stuff ten pounds of crap into a five-pound bag? A factor of 10 reduction in global population might well allow us to have (most of) our cake and eat it too. No need for a mass culling, just stop having so many kids... the numbers will take care of themselves.
Of course, China tried something like that, to the sheer horror of Western civilization. But we should probably be grateful for whatever time that bought us, as they, and most of the developing world, now queue up for SUVs, air conditioners, and iPads. Given our own history, who are we to admonish them not to?
For what it's worth, I, for one, don't "continue to insist on American's continuing to live as we do now" or as we have since the post-WW II era, for that matter. I continue to insist that, for the most part, the American people have, and continue to, dramatically use more than our fair share of the word's finite resources (See the chart below for a good illustration of that)....all while Americans (and our lawmakers, and people like Mr. ConocoPhillips) largely eschew efforts to reduce consumption, increase energy efficiency/recycling, etc.
I also believe that over-population, in America and world-wide (as we are north of 7 billion people, growing rapidly) is a serious problem, which is one of the reasons I got 'fixed' years ago and my wife and I didn't pro-create.


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#75796 - 07/11/02 10:29 AM Surprise VI
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Knights Errant In France, from 768 to 987, the land was encumbered with fortified castles; in England this was not the case
till the reign of Stephen. The lords of these castles used to carry off females and commit rapine, so that a class of men sprang
up, at least in the pages of romance, who roamed about in full armour to protect the defenceless and aid the oppressed.
And the Knights Arrant were the ones who committed the rapes.
I remember learning the word "arrant" from R.L.Stevenson poem "My Shadow"
the last stanza being:
One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
#75797 - 07/11/02 11:08 AM Re: Surprise VI
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Lachesis [Lak'-e-sis ]. The Fate who spins life's thread, working into the woof the sundry events destined
to occur. Clotho held the distaff, and Atropos cut off the thread when life was to be ended. (Greek,
klótho, to draw thread from a distaff; Lachesis from lagchano, to assign by lot; and Atropos = inflexible.)
#75798 - 07/11/02 11:10 AM Sir Humphrey and the dragon
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Dr. Bill:
How knights of you to bring up this topic. For some strange reason, your mentioning that word reminded me of one of the least-known knights of the Round Table, Sir Humphrey, little known because he had little money. How poor was he? He was so poor that he didn't have a charger on which to gad about. He had to make do with a cart pulled by a pair of Toggenburgs, hence his sometimes moniker: Sir Humprey Goatcart.
One day King Abdul remarked that he hadn't seen Sir Humprey around the old camel lot in some time (and here you thought this was about King Arthur;s round table, didn't you?) No one else had seen him in weeks, but it was reported that his goats had returned without him, dragging the cart behind them.
So King Abdul decided to send someone out looking for Sir Humphrey. All of the other knights were busy on various quests, so Lady Pamela volunteered. At first old Abdul wasn't too happy, but finally he relented. So Lady Pamela, suitably clad in a slinky two piece suit of fe-mail, set out on her pretty grey mare to find the errant knight.
Some weeks later, after many adventures which may be read about elsewhere, she found Sir Humphrey, who had been captured by a fierce magical dragon and imprisoned, grievously wounded, in the dank confines of a cave. Lady Pamela engaged the dragon in combat and cut off its head with her trusty sewing scissors. As she was binding up Humphrey's wounds, he saw over her shoulder that the dragon, a magical beast, had raised itself from the dead and was creeping up behind her.
So Sir Humphrey shouted to his would-be rescuer, "Slay it again, Pam."
#75799 - 07/11/02 11:10 AM Re: Surprise VI
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Laconic Very concise and pithy. A Spartan was called a Lacon from Laconia, the land inwhich he dwelt.
The Spartans were noted for their brusque and sententious speech. When Philip of Macedon wrote to the
Spartan magistrates, If I enter Laconia, I will level Lacedæmon to the ground, the ephors wrote word
back the single word, If.
#75800 - 07/11/02 11:15 AM Re: Surprise VI
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Lady A woman of wealth, of station, or of rank. Verstegan says, It was anciently written Hleafdian [?
hlæfdige], contracted first into Lafdy, and then into Lady. Laf or Hláf (loaf) means food in general or
bread in particular, and dig-ian or dug-an, to help, serve, or care for; whence lady means the
`bread-server.' The lord (or loaf-ward supplied the food, and the lady saw that it was properly served, for
the ladies used to carve and distribute the food to the guests.
#75801 - 07/11/02 11:24 AM Re: Surprise VI
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Ladies' Smocks Garden cress, botanically called Cardamine, a diminutive of the Greek kardamon, called
in Latin nasturtium, sometimes called Nose-smart (Kara-damon, head-afflicting); so nasturtium is
Nasi-tortium (nose-twisting), called so in consequence of its pungency.
#75802 - 07/11/02 11:26 AM Re: Surprise VI
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Lager Beer A strong German beer. Lager means a storehouse, and lager beer means strong beer made
(in March) for keeping.
#75803 - 07/11/02 11:28 AM Re: Surprise VI
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Laissez Faire, Laissez Passer Lord John Russell said: Colbert, with the intention of fostering the
manufactures of France, established regulations limiting the webs woven in looms to a particular size. He
also prohibited the introduction of foreign manufactures Then the French vine-growers, finding they could
no longer get rid of their wine, began to grumble. When Colbert asked a merchant what relief he could
give, he received for answer, `Laissez faire, laissez passer;' that is to say, Don't interfere with our mode
of manufactures, and don't stop the introduction of foreign imports.
The laissez-faire system. The let-alone system.
#75804 - 07/11/02 11:28 AM Re: Sir Humphrey and the dragon
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Posts: 1346
Loc: Sussex, England
So Sir Humphrey shouted to his would-be rescuer, "Slay it again, Pam."
The piano player stopped dead in his tracks. A sudden patter of feet and the barman was beside them, clearing away the glasses.
He glared sharply at TEd, and with a slight sneer said,
"That's it, mate. You're bard."
#75805 - 07/11/02 11:29 AM Re: Surprise VI
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Lake School (The). The school of poetry introduced by the Lake poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and
Southey, who resided in the Lake district of Cumberland and Westmoreland, and sought inspiration in the
simplicity of nature. The name was first applied in derision by the Edinburgh Review to the class of poets
who followed the above-named trio.
N.B. Charles Lamb, Lloyd, and Professor William (Christopher North) are sometimes placed among
the Lakers.
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Effective Date: September 20, 2010
Expiration Date: September 20, 2015
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|Hours of Duty
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a. This Headquarters Procedural Requirement (HQPR) sets
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Headquarters employees. In addition, the document
establishes the responsibilities, procedures and
requirements for determining work schedules in accordance
with applicable laws and regulations, including reporting
requirements for the Web Based Time and
Attendance Distribution System (WebTADs).
b. NASA Headquarters supports programs that strengthen
the strategic management of human capital, foster
cooperation among all employees, increase employee
productivity, and support the ability to attract and retain
a diverse and talented workforce. Accordingly, it is
NASA Headquarters policy to support employee participation
in alternative work schedules (AWS) when they are
compatible with the accomplishment of organizational
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duties and responsibilities of individual positions lend themselves to such work arrangements.
This HQPR is applicable to all NASA Headquarters civil servant employees, excluding the NASA Shared Services Center and the Office of the Inspector General.
a. 5 U.S.C., Chapter 61, Hours of Work.
b. 5 CFR, Part 610, Hours of Duty.
c. 5 CFR, Part 610, Subpart D: Flexible and Compressed Work Schedules.
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b. NPR 3600.1, Attendance and Leave.
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