State Engineer Denies Augustin Plains Ranch Groundwater Application
San
Augustin Plains community members were overjoyed by the State
Engineer's denial of the most recent iteration of Augustin Plains
Ranch’s application to mine 17 billion gallons of water annually.
We have been saying it for years:
Augustin Plains Ranch’s application for withdrawal of 54,000 acre feet
per year of groundwater is speculative. On August 1st, the State
Engineer agreed and denied the ranch's application to withdraw
groundwater from its property near Datil.
Speculation
means, simply, that an applicant has not clearly and specifically
stated "the purposes, places of use, or amounts of use" for the water
they are applying for, including details on how the water would be
delivered to any users.
The Law
Center and our clients convinced the State Engineer to deny the Ranch's
first application in 2012 and we also won on appeal in state District
Court in early 2013. Since then, the Ranch has filed multiple
applications, corrections and modifications.
This
has been a critically important fight for us and our clients. A bad
decision would have set a precedent that could dry up rural communities
throughout New Mexico.
facing a Western Water War out on the San Augustin Plains.
The story deserves far more attention, immediately.
These "Developers" - a guy named Bruno Modena from
Milan, Italy and his buddies, say they'll invest $500 million in the project, which will ship water out of the aquifer
to where the money is. They claim that because they have the capital, and expertise," in these matters, we'll simply have to strike a deal. This is our best bet.
. No one, absolutely NO ONE IN ITALY deals with
that kind of cash without either being mafia, or giving
the gumbas their cut on the action, be it the Italian Mafia, or the Jewish Mafia, or....?
Talk to the guys at the Vatican Bank, who found
this out the hard way many years ago.
Mr. Modena is incredibly secretive - a bad sign.
Reporters can't find out squat about him, his holding
companies, his dogs - nada, nothing - a few addresses which
are basically his lawyers' addresses, and the fact that he tried to put up some nightmare concept of a country club, golf course, and subdivision in Maine's Schoodic Peninsula - a pristine region. So far it's a failure. New Englanders, particularly folks in Maine, don't put up with such craziness. . [UPDATE - JANUARY 13 - I finally pinned down the truth - the Modena Duet and their "investors" gave up on the project, and sold the land to a group of conservation buyers, ostensibly led by Lyme Timber Company, who put forth some modest ideas about cutting and recreational use. The locals, and Maine environmentalists, are happy as clams. The conservationists and concerned locals had been nothing but trouble for this outfit - from the get go. The Modena outfit had other problems besides the serious opposition they faced. They were deadbeats on their bills - two outfits quit. Both eventually got some money, but one contractor had to get a lien filed on their property before they settled up. Taxes on the property were behind, thousands of bucks, but that eventually got fixed. Very bad press - if it leaks out, which of course it did. Millionaires that won't pay their bills? What? Tony Soprano's now moved into the neighborhood? .
. No one wanted them, basically, after all was said and done, or known, or hidden.... But they were able to leave with a pile of cash - the price paid for the land has been described by some people in the know as "exorbitant." It obviously pays to threaten people with bad projects that never should have been allowed to get to first base. It seems like a whole new form of extortion. Extortion - now that's something the Italian Mafia knows something about! Just google: italian police anti-mafia extortion Well, maybe a few lawyers and bankers will miss having espresso with the Milano boys, but who gives a rat's ass. They never presented a very clear plan of what is was they were up to. Gee, this sounds familiar.... . To find out more about what happend in Maine, see the story on the link below from The Friends of Acadia website. The Friends are a non-profit group working with the Acadia National Park, which is next door to the land that had been proposed for development by Modena and his "investors." http://www.friendsofacadia.org/news/firms_quit_12_26.shtml] . I'd bet INTERPOL has a fat file on this "Family," please e-mail if you know who I should call in the global law enforcement community. Someone HAS to know something. What kind of money will it take to loosen someone's tongue?
Why does this guy cover his tracks so completely? Who's that secretive? Why do they need to be?
What, you never watched The Sopranos? Or did you ever google "international- gangs-corporate-worldwide"? You ought to.
WAKE UP!!! .
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I'll have some bumper stickers and shirts out soon.
We're starting with a 10" bumper sticker.
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Editor's Note: A gumba is defined different ways - three of them are:
(a) Among cops, DA's, and other such folks back East
it refers to a Mafia "made" guy - "Family" as they refer to themselves. Also referred to by many folks in law enforcement as pigs, degenerates, thieves, thugs, scum, and worse, a lot worse....but it's real bad language. However, these cops are not people worried about what's politically correct. Thank God! They worry about what the gumbas are up to. (b) A gangster, from any organized crime reality, any ethnicity - a gumba could be Italian, Russian, Mongolian, Irish, Brazillian, Israeli, or even Eskimo. (c) A dark-skinned Italian from the north of Italy, which is where Milan is, and where Bruno Modena and sonny-boy Vittorio, these now-famous Rancho de Agua characters, hail from. They hang out in Germany quite possibly these days we hear, but - Quien sabe? Who knows? . The very rich have the power to go anywhere, and spin the web from long-distance, with the help of consultants and "front-men," like the shills, the so-called experts, the pro's on board,
for the Italian gumbas here. . You white boys - you, Tom Carroll, the
"mouthpiece" for this "family" that refuses to be seen, a Son of Erin gone horribly off-course, a disgrace to my race, and all of you involved in promoting this obscenity - have become gumbas. You're so dark. So worthless. So after a wad of cash. So predictable. So, so....incredibly stupid! What you're doing for this man is unethical - immoral! Are you getting paid on time? Yes? How unusual! As you've read here, some contractors for the Modena Organization have had problems getting their money due out of these "millionaires." But it's not just in Maine, it's here in New Mexico too. Deadbeats! Big money, big deal, big plans, screwing their contractors. Tony Soprano would be proud of 'em! We'll have more details about who's quit this "Organization" at Rancho de Agua up soon. . [Update 1/22/14 - We found out who two contractors were who reportedly had difficulties getting paid, but neither outfit wanted to go "on the record" about the gory details.] . Well, I hope you enjoy it now boys, because this ain't gonna last! The Modena Organization is going to get the worst of this, and will be driven off like a thief in the night, NOT PAID OFF, LIKE HAPPEND IN MAINE, if there's any justice left in the land. Gentlemen, it's all just a question of time. But what you're doing is un-American, and in a way it could be called treasonous, (see Webster's). You're in deep water here, Tom Carroll. Treason? What's the penalty on that? .
. We'll have items of interest up about the war,
where enlistment centers are, etc., etc. in time.
Please check back with us. Hang on to your hat.... .
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STOP THE WATER GRAB! "Wherever there's opportunity, the Mafia will be there." Johnny Kelly - Brooklyn, New York Rock Drummer
