Category: Water Issues

Rio Grande Basin and San Luis Valley Aquifer

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Whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting about. Mark Twain Figure 1. Location of Rio Grande River and Rio Grande drainage basin. The Rio Grande River and Rio Grande Basin The Rio Grande River heads up in the eastern San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado and flows nearly 2000 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. It is the second longest river in the U.S. and for 2/3 of its length it forms the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico(from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico at Brownsville, Texas). Since its waters are utilized by three states and Mexico, the Rio Grande is considered an interstate and Read More …

Water Watch Alliance

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August 20, 2008 Figure 1. Baca National Wildlife Refuge (BNWR) Wetlands and Sangre de Cristo Mountains Figure 2. San Luis Valley and proposed Lexam drill area on BNWR (red rectangle in upper right). The Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is to immediate right of BNWR. I have always told people that the San Luis Valley is more than a home to me. It is a spiritual place unlike any other on earth. Senator Ken Salazar, Colorado WATER WATCH ALLIANCE (WWA) IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION OF VOLUNTEERS DEDICATED TO PROTECTING THE WATER AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND PRISTINE SAN LUIS VALLEY OF SOUTHERN COLORADO FROM REMOVAL AND CONTAMINATION Read More …

Baca Residents Trying to Protect Wildlife Refuge from Gas Drilling (Colorado Central Magazine, April 1, 2008)

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Baca Residents Trying to Protect Wildlife Refuge from Gas Drilling (Colorado Central Magazine, April 1, 2008) Baca Residents Fight Drilling In Wildlife Refuge (April 1, 2008) By Eric Karlstrom Water Watch Alliance I have always told people that the San Luis Valley is more than a home to me. It is a spiritual place unlike any other on earth. Senator Ken Salazar The San Luis Valley of southern Colorado is a unique, special place- a national treasure. Considered North America’s largest, alpine agricultural valley, the San Luis Valley is bounded on the east by the spectacular Sangre de Cristo Range and on the west by the San Juan Mountains. It Read More …

History of Lexam, Inc.’s Gas “Drill Play” on the Baca National Wildlife Refuge

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Dr. Eric T. Karlstrom, Professor of Geography, California State University, Stanislaus, 2008 Background on Lexam’s “drillplay” on the Baca National Wildlife Refuge (BNWR) Figure 1. Buffalo in wetlands west of Great Sand Dunes National Park Figure 2. Location of San Luis Valley and Rio Grande Watershed in south-central Colorado Plans for Another 22,812 Wells in Colorado Alone! The “BIG PICTURE:” Radical Increases in Gas Drilling Throughout the Rocky Mountains To understand what is happening here, we need to look at the larger context of Lexam’s “drillplay.” There is currently a “land rush” by oil and gas companies on federal lands in the Rocky Mountain region that has been going on Read More …

Why We Believe the San Luis Valley is a NO-GO (No Gas and Oil) Zone

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Why We Believe the San Luis Valley Must Remain a NO-GO (No Gas and Oil drilling) Zone! Figure 1. Wetlands in the Baca National Wildlife Refuge; Sangre de Cristo Mountains in background. Figure 2. Sand dunes in The Great Sand Dunes National Park and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. I have always told people that the San Luis Valley is more than home to me. It is a spiritual place unlike any other on earth. Senator Ken Salazar (Valley of the Dunes) Figure 3. Proposed Lexam/Concoco-Philips project area on Baca National Wildlife Refuge (green dotted line). Baca #1 and #2 wells are on The Great Sand Dunes National Park and Read More …

Rio Grande Basin and San Luis Valley Aquifer

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Dr. Eric T. Karlstrom, Professor of Geography, California State University, Stanilaus, 2008 Whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting about. Mark Twain Figure 1. Location of Rio Grande River and Rio Grande drainage basin. The Rio Grande River and Rio Grande Basin The Rio Grande River heads up in the eastern San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado and flows nearly 2000 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. It is the second longest river in the U.S. and for 2/3 of its length it forms the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico (from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico at Brownsville, Texas). Since its waters are utilized Read More …

Crestone-Sagauche County Water, Land & Air Battles (Locals V. UN Agenda 21 Agents?), 2008-2013

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Webmaster Introduction: This post is also located here: Appendix 1: Crestone / Baca Battles and is part of the extended series of articles I wrote entitled Preface: Is Crestone/Baca the “Vatican City of the New World Order?” An Expose of the New World Religion. A popular saying in the Crestone/Baca New Age spiritual community is that one often sees “the macrocosm in the microcosm.” This is certainly true of the sparsely-populated Crestone/Baca and Saguache County (population: about 1500 and 6,000, respectively.) Here, locals commonly speak of their neighbors being “thrown under the bus”- a phrase also associated with hard-ball political “assassinations” in Washington, D.C. And stangely, local political differences are Read More …

Grand Canal Schemes (2012)

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Thursday, February 23, 2012 GRAND Canal scheme – Water privatization and agri-food cartel agenda – Groundwater contamination – Louis Desmarais – Thomas Kierans DIVINING OBAMA SECRETLY “DAMNING” INDIGENOUS WATER
16.02.2009

Source: Mohawk Nation News

MNN. Feb. 13, 2009 – On February 19th, the U.S. “bucket brigade” of President Barack “The-Sorcerer’s-Apprentice” Obama and his entourage will be bringing their empty pails to Canada. They want Prime Minister Stephen “Sponge-Bob” Harper and his buddies to start hauling Indigenous water to the States. They’re after our resources. You can bet on it! The following day, U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs, Ken “Spanish-Amphibian” Salazar, will make an important announcement about their plan Read More …