California Turns to Mexico for Cheap Water, Little Regulation

April 26th, 2011 | Natural Resources News Service | | One comment

Up to half of the water produced in Rosarito is expected to stay in Mexico to meet local demand. But the rest would be pumped north of the border to American households, said Halla Razak of the San Diego County Water Authority.

“We were happy to find out that we should continue looking into this, that no fatal flaws were found,” Razak said.

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No guarantees for Carlsbad Desal plant

April 6th, 2011 | Natural Resources News Service | | Leave a comment
Photo: Poseidon Resources
Photo: Poseidon Resources

Deals brokered by Poseidon and nine area water agencies were too good to be true

When it comes to the future of desalinated water in California, San Diego County is facing a reality check. In agreements signed years ago, nine local water agencies brokered sweetheart deals with Poseidon Resources, an investor-owned Connecticut company that has been planning to build and operate a desalination plant in Carlsbad for the past 12 years.

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New York Wine and Tourism Industry Prepares To Battle Hydrofracking

February 24th, 2011 | Natural Resources News Service | | Leave a comment
Brewery Ommegang, a Belgian-owned brewer and importer (shown from an aerial view), relies on pure well water from two aquifers near Cooperstown, N.Y. Credit: Brewery Ommegang. Photo of the drilling tower: Ruhrfisch / wikicommons
Brewery Ommegang, a Belgian-owned brewer and importer (shown from an aerial view), relies on pure well water from two aquifers near Cooperstown, N.Y. Credit: Brewery Ommegang. Photo of the drilling tower: Ruhrfisch / wikicommons

A fault line is opening in upstate New York between the established wine and tourism industries and natural gas drillers.

On Feb. 11, the Chamber of Commerce in the postcard-quaint lakefront village of Cooperstown, N.Y., home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, passed a resolution stating that plans for drilling pose a direct economic threat to its 530 members.

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New York State to Require Environmental Impact Statement for Large Scale LPG Storage in NY Watershed

February 7th, 2011 | Natural Resources News Service | | Leave a comment
A Salt Cavern Underground Natural Gas Storage Reservoir Configuration. Photo: PB Energy Storage Services Inc.
A Salt Cavern Underground Natural Gas Storage Reservoir Configuration. Photo: PB Energy Storage Services Inc.

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. –  Public alarm over plans to store liquefied petroleum gas in salt caverns near here has spiked in recent weeks after the state ruled in November that the project’s developer would need to produce a full environmental impact statement.

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