Letters to editor for Jan. 19, 2009

Reading all the letters to the editor and I wonder about the people of this town. One guy does not want to pay for water but uses it, a lady uses the term "stranger-angels", another uses the dictionary to make a point about courtesy (I think), the next comes from a guy (with an anglo last name) that wants to revisit how we look at and honor history and people of our past. Finally, with the last post, a person who states it simply and TO THE POINT!

We need to relieve our reliance on ground water however the BDD will not do this. Water use at the Buckman wells will continue up to close to the same rate by 2020. Aamodt will also create a diversion and further groundwater withdrawals from an already over allocated source. What in heavens name are our elected representatives thinking? This insanity fueled by greed and the inability to control growth is deplorable. There are alternatives but they just can't seem to think outside of the every tightening box.

Columbus Day Parade in New York has always been infiltrated by the Mafia and is used to promote their power.

PNM electric load forecaster Steve Martin points out the electric load increase as a result of pumping San Juan-Chama water in New Mexico.

http://www.prosefights.org/abqwater/abqwater....

Here's another potential problem.

"Thu Oct 02 01:00:00 CDT 2008 A new study released this week highlights what experts have been saying for years: the U.S. faces significant risk of power brownouts and blackouts as early as next summer that may cost tens of billions of dollars and threaten lives.

http://www.utilityproducts.com/display_articl...

The study, "Lights Out In 2009?" warns that the U.S. "faces potentially crippling electricity brownouts and blackouts beginning in the summer of 2009,..."

From Las Cruces, New Mexico, the City of Contradictions, where religious prejudice is a commodity and export by the governments of Dona Ana County and the City using public funds.

Hear! Hear! Mr. Dunn. In New Mexico we have the adoration of Coronado and Oñate for bringing the Catholic Way to the Native Americans. How they did it was not nice, to say the least.

Coronado never came through the southern portion of our fair state, but all Oñate did was pass through. Some wonder why there is a public high school in Las Cruces named "Oñate High School."

Now in the works is a $100 MILLION DOLLAR public high school due for habitation in 8/2011 that has no name. In a city like Las Cruces that thrives on lies any name is possible. Swastika High School might show up as many at New Mexico State University and its alumni still rankle at losing their “Swastika” yearbook and the NMSU is involved in this project. Many fingers are in this Largess pie.

Wow wrote:

Reading all the letters to the editor and I wonder about the people of this town. One guy does not want to pay for water but uses it, a lady uses the term "stranger-angels", another uses the dictionary to make a point about courtesy (I think), the next comes from a guy (with an anglo last name) that wants to revisit how we look at and honor history and people of our past. Finally, with the last post, a person who states it simply and TO THE POINT!

Even though I loathe George W. Bush and am happy to see him leave, I thought most of the letters to the editor were interesting and relative. I was especially unhappy with the news of Medicaid dropping annual physical exams for seniors, even though these people pay huge monthly premiums. I wrote Senator Bingaman to express my disapproval.

senator_bingaman@bingaman.sena te.gov

"The Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC or
Committee) has assessed the current electric power
delivery system infrastructure and concludes that it
will be unable to ensure a reliable, cost-effective,
secure, and environmentally sustainable supply of
electricity for the next two decades.

The early warning signs of a declining electric power
delivery infrastructure are visible today. Fuel
transportation, particularly by rail, is congested, and
any outage of a rail line can create stress on electric
power supply. Coal piles at power plants have been
low in the recent past. Much of the electricity supply
and delivery infrastructure is nearing the end of its
useful life. Without attention, natural gas demand
could grow faster than the supply and capacity of the
associated infrastructure to produce and deliver it.
Spent nuclear fuel storage at some reactors is
reaching capacity without any policy direction on
long-term storage or reprocessing of spent nuclear
fuel. The integration of renewable energy resources
rises and falls with the ebb and flow of congressional
legislation to fund the production tax credits (PTCs).
The transmission infrastructure is aging and
becoming more congested. Further development of
the infrastructure is impeded by an archaic patchwork
of cost allocation policies, fragmented permitting and
siting practices, and varying needs analyses that are
limited in focus and scope.

The engineering, science, and technology expertise
required to meet the formidable technical challenges
of keeping the lights on in the future is disappearing...."

http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/ad...

PNM technical people are telling the same story.

http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/pnmelectric...

Non-technical people have a different story.

Who cares?