For Immediate Release: Federal Court Ends Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Lawsuit in Owens Lake case Date: May 2, 2013 Today, the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s high-profile lawsuit against the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District and other environmental agencies was dismissed by the U.S. District Court [...]
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Letter to the editor: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
Submitted by Daniel Pritchett of Bishop I recently compared DWP’s announcement of its decision to abandon Owens Lake Master Plan negotiations to a “Dear John” letter ending a relationship. I also posed the rhetorical question of whether the jilted parties (local environmental groups and agencies) would learn from the experience to be more skeptical of [...]
LADWP offers plan, makes no water promises
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Director of Water Operations, Martin Adams, returned to the Inyo Supervisors Tuesday with a project plan concept for the Owens Dry Lake. Bottom line – DWP wants to cut water use for dust control at the lake by half, pump water from under the lake, limit future [...]
LADWP goes back to Inyo Supervisors
Eager to push their latest Owens Dry Lake plan, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will send their Water Operations Director Martin Adams back to the Inyo Supervisors meeting Tuesday. Put simply, that plan could accelerate past the Owens Dry Lake Planning Group, would seek to eliminate any more dust controls at the [...]
Letter to the editor: “Love ‘em and leave ‘em”
Love ‘em and Leave ‘em by Daniel Pritchett, Bishop Los Angeles’ conquest of Owens Valley was famously compared to rape by Morrow Mayo in 1932. In 2006, LA Water and Power Commissioner Mary Nichols compared the Owens Valley-LA relationship to a troubled marriage. I suggest “seduction” is the best way to understand Owens Lake Master [...]
Dust from the Gobi Desert clouds Owens Valley
Why has our air looked so hazy since last Friday? It was made in China, you might say, and blown across the globe to California. Hard to believe, but Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District Director Ted Schade confirmed it. NASA documented by satellite the Gobi Desert phenomenon. Schade said that in the Spring [...]
APCD, LADWP court update
According to the Los Angeles Daily Journal, a U.S. District judge in Fresno could issue an opinion “any day” on whether or not to dismiss the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power lawsuit against the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District and others. Originally, LADWP filed suit against not only the APCD but [...]
Letter to the editor: response to response on Owens Lake Master Plan
by Daniel Pritchett, Bishop My argument that the emperor (the Owens Lake Master Plan) has no clothes (2/5/13) apparently hit a nerve. Ignoring the personal attacks, the author of the 2/9/13 response revealed interesting points about the basis of our differing views. The 2/9/13 author wrote “the water is currently owned by the City of [...]
LADWP loses another legal fight with APCD
Court rules against Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in Owens Lake fee case Press Release from Great Basin Air Pollution Control District Date: December 17, 2012 Today, in another setback for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the Kern County Superior Court ruled that LADWP must pay more than one million dollars in fees that it deliberately withheld related to air pollution control measures for the dried [...]
LADWP pulls leases under dry lake air monitors
They’re still doing it. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has, for decades, used its land ownership to manipulate life in the Owens Valley. The latest DWP maneuver cancels leases for land under three of the Air Pollution Control District’s Owens Dry Lake air monitors. LADWP doesn’t like what the air monitors are [...]
State Air Board rules against LADWP
State Air Board rules against Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in Owens Lake appeal Date: November 19, 2012 Press Release – In a long awaited decision, the California Air Resources Board today ruled that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is required to construct additional air pollution controls on the dried [...]
Contrails or chemtrails?
Some residents of the Bishop area have lately complained about jet airplane contrails in the sky and the belief that chemical products or some type of haze may hang in the Eastern Sierra skies as a result. The Air Pollution Control District looked into it. Andrea Pucci of Bishop contacted APCD Director Ted Schade to [...]
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