Thursday, June 30, 2011

Tavistock mind manipulation/Bill Clinton sourcewatch/Off topic at bottom David Bechman Water Quality Regulation in California: A Day Late and a Dollar Short?

The Nature of the Beast–Tavistock mind manipulation

http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/the-nature-of-the-beast-tavistock-mind-manipulation/  (46 min. video)  I haven't watched this yet and wanna do so right now.  I wanted to get this out to yous guys as I think all of the info is VERY important....... my2cents ...cal



Leuren Moret Discusses MKUltra, Tavistock, HAARP & Mind Control

http://vodpod.com/watch/4347552-leuren-moret-discusses-mkultra-tavistock-haarp-mind-control
Uh oh, I found this and now it's more important to me so gonna watch this first.  It's only 10 mins. ...cal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilwell_Hall
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Stilwell Hall was an immense, 52,000-square-foot (4,800 m2) building that stood on a precipice at the edge of the Pacific on the west side of U.S. Highway 1, just across from the former Fort Ord military installation.
The building was constructed between November 1940 and September 1943 under the initiative of General Joseph W. Stilwell. It served as a recreational facility for military members for just over fifty years before Fort Ord was closed in 1994. Abandoned, Stilwell Hall fell into disrepair and was torn down in 2003 after severe coastal erosion threatened to cause the structure, filled with asbestos and lead-paint, to collapse into the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
Leon Panetta CIA Links to Rockefeller World Government Rockefeller - Gary Arnold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZOrazwdxcc

http://www.answers.com/topic/fort-ord

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Seeds_of_Peace
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Advisory Board
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Queen_Noor
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nuclear_Age_Peace_Foundation
Excerpst:

1) Board of Directors

Diandra M. Douglas is an independent producer of award-winning documentary films and a Trustee of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

2) Advisory Council

Harry Belafonte is an acclaimed singer, songwriter and humanitarian.
Walter Cronkite is an eminent broadcast journalist.
Michael Douglas is an award-winning film producer and actor, and a United Nations Peace Messenger.
Daniel Ellsberg, Ph.D. is a former U.S. national security advisor who released the Pentagon Papers.
Benjamin B. Ferencz, J.D. is a former Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor.
Harrison Ford is an actor and conservationist.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Clinton
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1)  Clinton was  Rhodes Scholar, and is the founder of the Clinton Foundation.
  • Prize Winner 2007, TED

2)  Tobacco issues

"On August 23, 1996, President Clinton announced the nation's first-ever comprehensive program to protect children from the dangers of tobacco and a lifetime of nicotine addiction. The President's program was launched with the publication of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) final rule on tobacco and children, and with FDA's initiation of a process to require tobacco companies to educate children and adolescents -- using a national multi-media campaign -- about the dangers of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. The first provisions of the rule -- making 18 the age for the purchase of tobacco products nationwide and requiring photo IDs for anyone under age 27 -- became effective February 28, 1997. The President's comprehensive and coordinated plan is intended to reduce tobacco use by children and adolescents by 50 percent in seven years. This ambitious initiative will work to accomplish this objective while preserving the availability of tobacco products for adults. The proposed tobacco settlement will be evaluated within this framework to evaluate whether it meets the President's objectives."[3]
President Clinton's administration also initiated the 1999 U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against the major American tobacco companies. The suit resolved in August, 2006, with Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court finding the tobacco companies guilty of fraud, conspiracy and racketeering.
A 1995 narrative written by "Todd" (presumably Todd Haymore, a staffer for then-Congressman L.F. Payne, D-VA) chronicles a series of secret meetings between the Clinton White House and representatives from tobacco-growing states to broker a deal to stop the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's attempt to regulate nicotine a drug. The memo, a chronology of events apparently written to refresh Payne's memory, indicates that then-White House chief of Staff Leon Panetta engaged in secret negotiations with representatives of tobacco-growing states to "remove [FDA Commissioner David] Kessler from the radar." Panetta dangled a proposal in front of tobacco companies by telling the tobacco-growing state representatives that "voluntary action" by tobacco companies on the youth access issue "may be the best way to stop Kessler from attempting to regulate tobacco products" :
After it became apparent that the FDA/Kessler situation was the greatest problem facing tobacco state members, it was decided that voluntary action by the tobacco companies on youth access issues maybe the best way to stop Kessler from attempting to regulate tobcco products. Panetta said that if the industry came forth with a voluntary proposal aimed at reducing youth access the administration would remove Kessler/FDA from the radar.
The memo also indicates White House attempts to keep the negotiations secret:
Panetta stressed the need to keep this meeting and the comments within as quiet as possible. He said that if the meeting or discussions reached the press, the 'negotiations' would be off and the White House would deny knowing about them.
Tobacco-friendly Congressman Thomas Bliley (R-VA) met with tobacco industry leaders and told them about the Clinton White House's youth access proposal. The industry put together a proposal and submitted it to Panetta. As a subsequent meeting, Panetta warned Congressmen L.F. Payne (D-VA), Bliley (R-VA) and Charlie Rose (D-NC) "to keep this proposal and this meeting very quiet because media leaks would cancel any further discussions."
Ultimately, White House Counsel Abner Mikva reviewed the industry's proposal and made a counter proposal that the industry found unacceptable. There is no way to know the affect these negotiations may have had on tobacco companies ramping up of youth smoking prevention programs in the mid-1990s.[4]

Current Professional Roles


Published Works


Criticism of Clinton's Philanthropic Work

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Bill Clinton's Philanthropic Propaganda
 

by Michael Barker

 


"Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within and outside of their class. Although private wealth is the basis of the hegemony of this group, philanthropy is essential to the maintenance and perpetuation of the upper class in the United States. In this sense, nonprofit activities are the nexus of a modern power elite."
—Teresa Odendahl, 1990. (1)

(Swans - August 9, 2010)   Philanthropic propaganda provides a powerful rhetorical discourse that is used to maximum effect to shield leading members of the ruling class from critical scrutiny. Through consuming such propaganda we find out that the people who organize Empire against the interests of the majority of humanity are just like the rest of us, except, that is, that they want to help make the world a safer place for capital, not humans. This murderous prioritization is however glossed over by unrelenting public relations campaigns that maintain just the opposite. Bill Clinton is a master of such propaganda and just a few years ago he published his own opus on this subject, Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World (Knopf, 2007). Clinton is "convinced... that almost everyone -- regardless of income, available time, age, and skills -- can do something useful for others and, in the process, strengthen the fabric of our shared humanity." (2) Yet while he may be correct in stating that almost everyone can lend a hand, arguably the only people who should be excluded from intervening in this process are members of the power elite, like Clinton.
Clinton observes: "The modern world, for all its blessings, is unequal, unstable, and unsustainable." We can safely assume that Clinton is not stupid, so he must understand that capitalism is the primary reason why the minority of the world's population prosper while the majority face insecurity and poverty -- such that "millions die needlessly every year." So it is sickening that his counsel for the future is yet more capitalism. Indeed, the opening sentence of his book notes that while "all over the world, intelligence and energy are evenly distributed," the problem, he (lies), actually lies in the fact that "opportunity, investment, and effective organizations aren't" evenly distributed. The solution then is to "make market forces work better for the poor" by striving to "develop a more creative capitalism." He cynically adds: "If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world." (3) His solution thus resides within the mythical heart of the inhumane system that he himself identifies as "unequal, unstable, and unsustainable."
For Clinton, "One of the world's greatest full-time givers is Dr. Paul Farmer." Farmer is of course well known in progressive circles (see "Caring For Haiti"), and Clinton notes how:
In 1987, [Farmer] founded Partners In Health, along with fellow doctor Jim Yong Kim, his friend Ophelia Dahl, and Boston businessman Tom White, who put up the first $1 million to support the Zanmi Lasante Clinic that Farmer and Haitian colleagues opened in Cange in the central highlands of Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, long burdened by oppressive, corrupt, and violent rulers. (p.33)
Elsewhere (in The Boston Globe) one discovers that Farmer first met Tom White, the founder of a major construction company, in 1983 when he was working as a medical student in Haiti and had been tasked with picking White up from Port-au-Prince airport. White, a well-known philanthropist, was in Haiti because he "had been asked by Project Bread, one of his charities," to launch an aid project in Cange. (4) White recalls that Farmer's first impressions were not positive: "He'd hardly give me the time of day because he thought I was a member of the establishment." However, on the long journey from the airport to Cange, Farmer discovered that he had more in common with a leading member of the power elite than he first thought, as White was a Democrat and was in favor of unions. Consequently, as Farmer recalls: "The inspiration for Partners in Health was born right then and there." In subsequent years White "steadily funneled tens of millions of dollars into" Partners In Health, but later major funders like George Soros and Bill Gates (and his associated foundation) eventually stepped up to provide more significant long-term funding for Farmer's aid program in Haiti.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=TED
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Technology, Entertainment, Design

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TED "stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader." [1]
"TED is owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private nonprofit foundation, a 501(c)3 organization under US tax code. It was established in 1996 by Chris Anderson, who was at that time a magazine publishing entrepreneur." [2]

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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sapling_Foundation
Excerpt:
The Sapling Foundation, "a private nonprofit foundation, a 501(c)3 organization under US tax code. It was established in 1996 by Chris Anderson, who was at that time a magazine publishing entrepreneur.
"The goal of the foundation is to foster the spread of great ideas. It aims to provide a platform for the world's smartest thinkers, greatest visionaries and most-inspiring teachers, so that millions of people can gain a better understanding of the biggest issues faced by the world, and a desire to help create a better future. Core to this goal is a belief that there is no greater force for changing the world than a powerful idea...
"Many factors can amplify the power of ideas: mass media, technology and market forces, to name three. In the past Sapling has supported projects that use these tools to leverage every dollar spent and create sustainable change in areas such as global public health, poverty alleviation, and biodiversity. More than $10m has therefore been granted to enlightened organizations such as the Acumen Fund, Environmental Defence, One World Health, and PATH.
"But Sapling is not now accepting proposals for any further outside grants — because the focus of the foundation is now the impact possible through TED itself. Ever since the foundation acquired TED (in November 2001), it has been seeking ways to allow the extraordinary passion and inspiration created every year at the conference to effect beneficial change in the world." [1]

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Dr. Larry Brilliant "is the Executive Director of Google.org. In this role, Larry works with the company's co-founders to define the mission and strategic goals of Google's philanthropic efforts. Google.org, the umbrella organization for these efforts, includes the Google Foundation as well as Google Grants (the AdWords giving program) and the company’s major initiatives aimed at reducing global poverty, improving the health of the least advantaged in the world, and working to halt or even reverse the effects of the climate crisis.
"Larry is an M.D. and M.P.H., board-certified in preventive medicine and public health. He is a founder and director of The Seva Foundation, which works in dozens of countries around the world, primarily to eliminate preventable and curable blindness. He serves as a member of the strategic advisory committee for Kleiner Perkins (KPCB) Venture Capital and also sits on the boards of The Skoll Foundation, Health Metrics Network, Omidyar Networks Humanity United, and InSTEDD, an organization bringing technological tools to improve disaster response.
"In addition to his medical career, Larry co-founded The Well, a pioneering virtual community, with Stewart Brand in 1985. He also holds a telecommunications technology patent and has served as CEO of two public companies and other venture-backed start-ups.
"The author of two books and dozens of articles on infectious diseases, blindness, and international health policy, Larry has worked at city, county, state, federal, and international levels. He was recently a “first responder” for CDC’s smallpox bio-terrorism response effort, volunteered in Sri Lanka for tsunami relief, and established “Pandefense,” an interdisciplinary consultancy to prepare for possible pandemic influenza. Larry lived in India working as a United Nations medical officer for more than a decade where he played a key role in the successful World Health Organization (WHO) smallpox eradication program and has recently worked for the WHO polio eradication effort as well. He was Associate Professor of epidemiology, global health planning and economic development at the University of Michigan.
"Larry earned a Masters in Public Health in health planning and economic development from the University of Michigan, and received his M.D. from Wayne Medical School. He has received several awards from the Government of India and from WHO. Larry holds two honorary doctorate degrees, one from Knox College and the other from the New School. He was named "International Public Health Hero" by the University of California. In February 2006 he received the Sapling Foundation’s TED Prize." [1]
His wife is Girija Brilliant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Brilliant
Excerpt:
Personal life
Brilliant currently lives with his wife Girija (formerly Elaine) and three children: Joe, Jon, and Iris. Girija holds a PhD in public health administration and is an equal partner in many of her husband's enterprises. Co-founder of Seva Foundation,[12] she was instrumental in the World Health Organization's smallpox eradication program.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Lancaster
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bread_for_the_World
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Beckmann

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Woods_Hole_Research_Center

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Blackstone_Group
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Blackstone Group

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The Blackstone Group is a private investment banking firm and describes itself as a "leading global investment and advisory firm." The Blackstone Group was founded in 1985 by a group of four, including Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman.
The Blackstone Group has ties to American International Group, Inc. (AIG) and Kissinger Associates, Inc./Henry Kissinger. According to the Blackstone website, AIG acquired a 7% non-voting interest in the company in 1998 for $150 million "and committed to invest $1.2 billion in future Blackstone-sponsored funds".
"Blackstone has developed strategic alliances with some of the largest and most sophisticated international financial institutions. In addition to AIG, they include Kissinger Associates, Roland Berger & Partner, GmbH, and Scandinaviska Enskilda Banken," the website states. [1]
The company's Blackstone Alternative Asset Management unit handles $1 billion in hedge funds for pension giant CalPERS.
John Forbes Kerry 2004 campaign 'adviser' Roger C. Altman was Vice Chairman of The Blackstone Group from 1987 through 1992 "where he led that firm's merger advisory business". [2]
In December 2001, The Blackstone Group was appointed as Enron's principal financial advisor with regard to its financial restructuring.[3] The company also advised Enron on "the Sale of its North American Power and Gas Trading Business to UBS". [4]Template:Deadlink
The Blackstone Group is also handling the restructuring of Global Crossing. [5]

http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/04/24/redd-in-the-news-11-17-april-2011/
Excerpt:
Forest Peoples Programme, April 2011 | Closing the gap between international human rights law and realities on the ground is the most important challenge facing forest peoples. Advances in international law have brought a general recognition that indigenous peoples do have rights to own and control their lands and territories and the natural resources within them. But it remains a hard struggle to get international organisations, like the World Bank, to adjust their standards to align with these advances in international law. This issue of our newsletter provides updates on the continuing tussles to get the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation, to adopt acceptable policies on indigenous peoples and for their engagement in the palm oil sector. Sustained engagement has led to improvements in both policies but serious weaknesses remain.

http://sppiblog.org/news/science-czar-john-holdren%E2%80%99s-goldman-sach%E2%80%99s-connection
Excerpt:

Science Czar, John Holdren’s Goldman Sach’s Connection

Source:  Liberty Journal
As I was doing some research in some non-profit’s literature, appeared before me was a 2006 picture of John Holdren, Bill Clinton, and this other guy (name not mentioned).  So what, you say.  Well the caption indicates, John Holdren’s Woods Hole Research Center Director accepts $1mil check from Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets (CEM).
Woods Hole Research Center describes themselves:
The Woods Hole Research Center is an independent, non-profit  institute  engaged in fundamental environmental science, applied policy analysis, local and regional capacity building, and public and policy-maker education aimed at clarifying the interacting functions of the Earth’s vegetation, soils, water, and climate in support of human well-being and promoting practical approaches to their sustainable management in the human interest.
In other words, they’re another rich environmental think tank 501(c) non-profit with rich members, well connected to the corporate world, who use their income to influence public policy to further increase their wealth.
The Woods Hole Research describes this venture with Goldman Sachs and Bill Clinton:

http://www.whrc.org/policy/cop15_news.html
Excerpt:

Public Policy and Economics

News from COP15 in Copenhagen

The Woods Hole Research Center, as a registered observer organization of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, sent a delegation of scientists, researchers, and other staff members to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s negotiating session in Copenhagen. The conference began on Monday, December 7, and concluded Friday, December 18. Below are daily updates regarding what happened there over the course of those two weeks.

Thursday, December 17 - Claudia Stickler, Postdoctoral Fellow & Danielle Knight, REDD Administrator:

With yesterday's news still fresh that President Obama would fund US $1 billion for REDD start-up activities over the next three years, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Copenhagen today with a proposal that the US contribute with other developed nations to a US $100 billion fund for the next ten years for least developed countries to fight climate change, dependent on an agreement. This move was primarily to force concessions out of China on agreeing to a legally binding target on carbon intensity and to agree to monitoring, reporting, and verification. Reports were that China did not want the deal, but this would imply that failure to come to an agreement here would be China’s fault. This indicates that China will probably agree to at least some part of the US proposal.


http://www.bread.org/about-us/david-beckmann.html
Excerpt:
Prior to joining Bread, Beckmann worked at the World Bank for 15 years, overseeing large development projects and driving innovations to make the bank more effective in reducing poverty.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/716449/posts
Excerpt:
Published on Tuesday, October 10, 2000 in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald
Maine 'Seeds of Peace' Youth Shot To Death By Israeli Soldiers
by Tess Nacelewicz
Maine's Seeds of Peace summer camp, where Israeli and Palestinian teen-agers come each year to learn to live in harmony, has lost its first graduate to the ongoing violence in the Middle East.
Asel Asleh, a 17-year-old Arab youth, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on Oct. 2 during a rock-throwing protest in northern Israel.
News reports say it's unclear whether Asel was among the stone-throwers. But a Seeds of Peace spokesman said that Asel's family says he was not involved in the current wave of violence, but was shot trying to help a wounded friend.
Asel, a friendly, broad-shouldered teen-ager with a big smile, was a camper and then a peer counselor at the camp in Otisfield during the summers of 1997, 1998 and 1999.
He was so committed to Seeds of Peace that he was wearing one of the organization's T-shirts – with its olive branch logo – when he was shot. His family buried him in the bloody garment.
His death has rocked the 7-year-old organization and its members, even those who didn't know Asel personally.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Holdren
Excerpt:

On nuclear power

In April 2009, Holdren remarked, "We are probably going to see some new nuclear power plants in this country. ... We hope they will be characterized by shorter construction times." He was speaking at an event organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [4]
"If nuclear energy is to make a big dent globally, then we are going to have to be attentive to breaking the linkages between nuclear energy technology and nuclear weapons technology," Holdren added. "And I think the administration will be attentive to how we need to do that as well." [4]

Biography

Holdren earned a bachelor's degree from MIT in 1965 and a PhD in plasma physics[5] from Stanford University in 1970. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley for more than two decades. His work has focused on global environmental change, energy technologies and energy policy|policies, nuclear proliferation, and science and technology policy[6]. Dr. Holdren served as chairman of the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from February 2007 until February 2008[7](AAAS) and is director of the Woods Hole Research Center.
Dr. Holdren is the author of some 300 articles and papers, and he has co-authored and co-edited some 20 books and book-length reports, such as Energy (1971), Human Ecology (1973), Ecoscience (1977), Energy in Transition (1980), Earth and the Human Future (1986), Strategic Defences and the Future of the Arms Race (1987), Building Global Security Through Cooperation (1990), Conversion of Military R&D (1998), and Ending the Energy Stalemate (2004). Holdren favors non use of nuclear weapons to respond to chemical and biological attacks on Americans [8]
He is the chair of the advisory board for Innovations, a quarterly journal about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges published by MIT Press.
His wife is Cheryl E. Holdren.


http://www.cafwd.org/news/
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CA:FWD

California Forward

We're Californians. We've come together to reclaim our power as citizens and fix our government. More information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Farr
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Samuel S. "Sam" Farr (born July 4, 1941) is the U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district, serving since 1993. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected to Congress in a 1993 special election when longtime Democratic Rep. Leon Panetta resigned to become Director of the Office of Management and Budget.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-s-beckman/water-quality-regulation_b_163102.html
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David S. Beckman

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Water Quality Regulation in California: A Day Late and a Dollar Short?

Read More: California, Clean Water, Clean Water Act, Environment, Environment And Government, Environmentalism, Nature, Pollution, Regional Water Quality Control Boards, State Water Resources Control Boards, Water, Water Pollutants, Water Pollution, Green News
Imagine your boss gave you a deadline, a really important one. The kind of deadline that affects the bottom line of whatever it is you do profoundly. And let's even imagine your boss tells you the deadline is imposed by federal law, and so your organization or company therefore must take it very seriously and comply.
And now let's imagine you miss the deadline. Not by a day or two. Or by a month. And not even by a year. But by many years: two, three, four, or even five years. What would happen to you?
You probably would be doing something different, right?
Well, not if you regulate water quality in California. There are, in fact, these sorts of really important deadlines that have a critical affect on the quality of the state's waters. But they are routinely violated by the state regulators, the State Water Resources Control Board and some of the Regional Water Quality Control Boards, entrusted with the duty to protect California's waterways.
The deadlines at issue require that new plans to control one of the largest sources of water pollution in California-polluted urban runoff-be revised and updated no less than every five years. Here's the law, from the Code of Federal Regulations:
122.46 Duration of permits (applicable to State programs, see 123.25).
(a) NPDES permits shall be effective for a fixed term not to exceed 5 years.
The requirement for the plans, called discharge permits, originates in the federal Clean Water Act, the nation's basic law intended to keep waterways clean. The core component of the Clean Water Act is the issuance of permits -- basically, limitations on the discharge of pollution -- to dischargers of water pollution. Since one of the most important sources of water pollution is polluted urban runoff, when control plans are not updated, the consequences are serious. This is particularly true because the technical approaches to controlling runoff are improving rapidly, and so requirements in pollution control plans issued, say, five years ago do not reflect the best and most effective approaches available today. The equation is simple: missed deadlines equal more pollution.
My colleague Bart Lounsbury and I have been working on improving these permits and we have tried to ferret out how overdue for re-issuance many of them are in California. It's sometimes a little tricky to nail down the precise date when permits take effect, or expire, but here are just some examples of important permits overdue for re-issuance. The first group of permits below covers pollution discharges in the entire state from industry, construction sites and from thousands of miles of freeways. The second category of permits are regional-specific.
State Water Resources Control Board (statewide permits):
* Construction General Permit: expired on August 18, 2004.
* Industrial General Permit: expired on April 17, 2002.
* Caltrans General Permit: expired on July 15, 2005.
Regional Water Quality Control Boards (regional permits):
* Contra Costa County Permit: expired on July 21, 2004.
* Santa Clara Valley Permit: expired on February 21, 2006.
* Ventura County Permit: expired on July 27, 2005.
* Los Angeles County Permit: expired on December 12, 2006.
An important thing to keep in mind is that permits remain in effect even when expired until a new one is issued. So no area of the state listed above is without any permit protection.
But the result of these missed deadlines is real and significant: more pollution. Exactly why California cannot meet its basic Clean Water Act obligations, and what can be done about it, is a topic for another post. A new report from a state commission takes a look at the poor performance by state regulators, and offers a range of possible solutions, some of which bear serious consideration. For now, however, it is apparent that fundamental components of the Clean Water Act are not being implemented faithfully in California. The system is simply not working.
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