Cost-effective and stable production of gas, electricity, water, and other critical California public utilities are the backbone of economic stability. Preventing price gouging, ensuring ample corporate competition, maintaining transparency between industrial special interests and Sacramento, and providing high quality service for local and statewide communities are several of the key priorities for independent-minded voters. Moving forward, independents will be paying close attention to California public utility solutions that strike the proper balance between environmental protection and laissez-faire economics.
Senator Barbara Boxer’s levee bill, titled the “Water Resources Development Act,” passed the Senate on Wednesday with overwhelming bipartisan support. The bill would authorize the Natomas Levee Improvement Program and several projects headed by the Army Corp. of Engineers nationwide….
Increases in the price of electricity over the last decade must be recovered from customers who fall in tiers 3, and 4 of the rate structure. These tiers consist of middle-class and large families who use more energy than the minimum estimate established by the State.
The United States uses more oil than any other country in the world, consuming more than 18.5 million barrels a day. Despite important ressources in its soil, the US remains dependent on foreign oil.
Last week, Deputy National Resources Secretary Jerry Meral was quoted as saying the Bay Delta Conservation Plan has “never been about saving the Delta,” and that the Delta “cannot be saved.”
The U.S. is a declining power and no amount of domestic oil and natural gas production can change that. The power of a nation in the world has many origins.
Last week, Californians for Responsible Economic Development (CMED), a student-led organization, started circulating a petition for a proposed ballot initiative that would create a 9.5 percent oil severance tax in California.
Five congressional Democrats have called for the resignation of Jerry Meral, the deputy director of California’s National Resources Agency, for comments he allegedly made about the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
