COURT DECLINES TO JUMP IN THE WATER, DROUGHT UPDATE

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 From Albuquerque Business First

The New Mexico Supreme Court has denied a

 motion to dismiss an application for a massive

 water project proposed by Augustin Plains Ranch LLC.

The motion was filed last month by the New Mexico 

Environmental Law Center on behalf of  a couple living

 in western New Mexico. They claimed that the application

 filed by Augustin is identical to one rejected by

 the state engineer several years ago.

Read the entire article here:

http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/news/2014/10/30/state-supreme-court-wont-stop-massive-water.html

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Carol and Ray Pittman

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"We continue to fight the water miners' efforts

 to take the water from the Augustin Plains

 basin.  It is important to understand that the

 refusal of the Supreme Court to hear our

 petition, while it was a disappointment, does

 not mean that we are out of options."

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 "Remember that Bruce Frederick

 has to fight this battle for us on the

 basis of legal technicalities,

 as the water miners have provided no

 substantive information.  The applications,

 both new and old, fail to meet the requirements

 of the law.  Submitting a "new" application is a

  game being played by the Augustin Plains Ranch.

  And we need to stop the game."

Carol Pittman

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 And here's an article from the Socorro Defensor Chieftain:

Supreme Court side-steps water grab issue

by John Larson | November 6, 2014 | Filed under: News

The New Mexico Supreme Court last week chose not to

 consider a petition filed by Ray and Carol Pittman of Datil to

 order the Office of the State Engineer to dismiss an application

 from San Augustin Plains Ranch LLC.

As outlined in its application, the company’s plan is to pump

 54,000 acre-feet of water per year from the San Agustin

 aquifer and transfer it by pipeline to sell to communities as far

 north as Rio Rancho.

The Pittmans had asked the Supreme Court to determine

 whether public water shall remain open to appropriation for

 beneficial use or whether public water can be monopolized by

 speculators, not for their own use, but for profitable sales in

 future markets.

The petition for the writ of mandamus was filed by New Mexico

  Environmental Law Center attorney Bruce Frederick for the
 Pittmans on Sept. 22.

In the petition, the Pittmans argue that a second application
 filed by the company this summer is “identical in all material
 respects” to its original application filed in 2007, which was
 denied by the state engineer.

Frederick said the court may have rejected it because of a

 separation of powers issue.
“We’re still in limbo,” Frederick said.
 “The application is still sitting there in the state engineer’s office.”
Frederick said the state engineer must reject the 2014

 application for the same legal reasons that he denied the 2007
  application.

 

Carol Pittman said she and her husband still have recourse.
“We are going to back to the court of Judge Reynolds, who has

 already denied the current application, and ask him to enforce
 it,” Carol Pittman said. “We won’t give up until we absolutely
 have to.”

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 The drought monitor is important for numerous

reasons.  But in the San Augustin case it's helpful if

the foreigners can't use the drought to promote their

cause.  It's scare tactics - not unusual for mafia types.

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A Storm Across the Valley, Tim Cox

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Long Range Precipitation/Drought Outlook 
The official NOAA Climate Prediction Center
outlook for New Mexico precipitation during
November 2014 favors above normal
precipitation over much of the state. The
 outlook from November through January 20 
also leans toward better chances of above
 normal precipitation, especially across
southern New Mexico.

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1 Month Precipitation CPC Outlooks

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 3 Month Precipitation CPC Outlooks 

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ON THE RIO GRANDE - SAN ILDEFONSO, 1905, Edward S. Curtis

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  Below is an animation of the weekly U.S. Drought monitor for

 2014 (through early October) across the United States. Note

 how the drought worsens over New Mexico through most of

 May before improving from late May through this summer.

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 11/16
The Sangre de Cristo Range in Colorado and New Mexico,

 as well as the San Juan Mountains further west,
 all got their first major blast of winter this week.

The Rio Grande snowpack is off to a good start.

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STOP THE WATER GRAB!

“There can never be any real freedom on earth

 as long as people try to exert ownership over

 the natural resources of the world.”
 Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason 

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BOGUS RECOGNITION FOR LLC - BULLSHIT DETECTOR BROUGHT IN

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The article below is from

Albuquerque Business First
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Engineering group pushes for Augustin Plains project

Aug 22, 2014, 6:18am MDT

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The Augustin Plains Ranch water project has been included in a list of the top infrastructure proposals in North America.

Gary Gerew

Assistant Editor- Albuquerque Business First

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The Augustin Plains Ranch water project has been included in a list of the top infrastructure proposals in North America.
CG/LA Infrastructure Inc., a Washington-based consulting firm, included the project in its Top 100 list of projects. The Augustin Plains Ranch project was one of eight water or wastewater projects, and the only one from New Mexico, included on the list.
“We are pleased to hear that APR has made the Strategic Top 100 list for 2014,” said Michel Jichlinski, the project director, in a statement. “This project is a very big step in developing a new and sustainable source of water for New Mexicans for generations to come, and I am glad that it has been recognized in North America for its innovation, feasibility, and legitimate purpose.”

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The owners of the Augustin Plains Ranch LLC near Datil are proposing wells and a pipeline that would transfer 54,000 acre-feet of water annually to the Albuquerque and Rio Rancho area.
APR says it already has spent about $3 million investigating the possibility of the project and has now submitted an application with the Office of the State Engineer to see if an official hearing process can be established.
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There's just one problem here:

Michel Jichlinski is the Project Director for the

Augustin Plains Ranch LLC,

but also works for CG/LA Infrastructure,

the outfit that's behind this "award" of sorts.

He's on their Advisory Board, which you
 can be sure advises the firm on  

WHAT PROJECTS to recognize

 on some BULLSHIT  Top 100 list.
The infrastructure and engineering crowd
has a lot of buddy-buddy stuff when it
comes to kissing each others' asses,
 shop-talking money, and worse.
On the big-time level, it's extremely incestuous.
A lot of these boys have been in bed
together on contracts.  They are, one might say,
 connected, and they advance each
others' agendas faithfully.

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Does any of this crap mean anything?

  Of course not.  But it gets them ink in the press,

and it all sounds sooooo professional.

It's all just more manufactured hype.
It's no different than a Professional Thieves organization
 putting out a Top 100 Best Con/Swindle list.
These guys would make that list for damn sure.

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"Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all

 characteristics which exist everywhere. It is

 regrettably the way human nature functions,

 whether we like it or not. What successful

 economies do is keep it to a minimum.

 No one has ever eliminated 

any of that stuff."

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Alan Greenspan

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T-SHIRTS Still Available

There's a small batch of the last printing

 in sizes Med thru 2XL, in orange and/or tan.

 Cost is $15 and includes mailing.

Proceeds go to the New Mexico 

Environmental Law Center.

To check on what sizes/colors are available,

 please contact Carol Pittman at:
sanaugustinwaterreport@gmail.com

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