Thursday, March 25, 2010
Groundwater developers face resistance from regulators
Meanwhile, in another flare-up over potential pumping caps, investor T. Boone Pickens is suing the Texas Water Development Board in an effort to undermine the entire state pumping cap project
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By Asher Price | Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 02:40 PM
Private groundwater developers hoping to sell water to fast-growing areas in Central Texas are facing a couple of setbacks.
Tonight the Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District, which regulates pumping in Bastrop and Lee Counties, could vote to extend a moratorium on most new well-water permits.
The moratorium was established in December on the very same day that End-Op, a water developer group led by former Williamson County Commissioner Frankie Limmer, signed a letter of intent with the Guadalupe Blanco River Authority to send as much as 45 million gallons of water per day from Bastrop and Lee counties to the San Marcos area for distribution to burgeoning development.
Limmer told me his group spent $3 million on a successful 24-day pumping test and has a right to permits for that water.
But district general manager Joe Cooper told me too much is in flux with a pumping cap being contemplated by the district and the state water development board. Plus, he said, the district is facing enough permit requests that if it doles out all the water demanded there won’t be enough for the residents of Lee and Bastrop counties in 25 years.
Don’t be surprised if Limmer’s group sues should the district extend the moratorium. End-Op has millions of dollars riding on a water deal with GBRA, but needs the OK from the groundwater district to proceed.
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T. Boone Pickens has a right to control everyone's water. If he has the money and the power, he should be able to make the rest of us pay up the nose for our water. That's the true American spirit the socialist Obama and the hippie liberals in Wimberley want to stop: the right to make a few dollars.
Just like this health bill farce they passed with most of the money going to Planned Parents to provide abortion to the poor breeders and the doctors who will be hired by the new government to sell marijuana to the sick.
Thank God Fox News let's me know the truth about this stuff. Otherwise I would have to believe what I read in the leftie newspapers such as the Austin American Statesmen.
Dick White makes a good point.
Water is a result of God's plan for our free market system to make a profit. Besides, if water consumers take too long a shower or use too much water for their leftie organic farms, they should pay some smart entrepreneur who bought the water rights in the first place. I'd rather see my money go to an expensive private profit system with lower water quality than some socialist less expensive water system owned by the commune with clean water.
It is what I believe in and God agrees with me. Don't tread on me and my water.
Oh no, another case for the hippie liberals water huggers to try and limit our property and profit rights. A perfect example is that leftie on the Wimberley City Council who runs Wimberley Water Company. You know, that guy who was falsely accused of having fun with a couple women by some ACLU commie lawyer.
Now, don't get me wrong. Bubba wants to bring cheap water into the Square so all our businesses owned by the city council members can make more money. Nothing wrong with a little government for the people (real people, not like those lazy unemployed minorities and illegal immigrunts).
Yeah, I read some of the writers here who said the lazy negroes were lazy because of people like LBJ, Reagan, and the three Bushes. Sad waste of good labor.
Anyway, you real estate people, don't let the leftie government groups like the Board of Realtors mess with your plans. Stand tough and keep building shooting ranges and adult bookstores no matter what.
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