TTC-69: "Another ball of wax being promoted by Gov. Rick Perry and his foreign investors."
Letters to the Editor:
Stop two monsters
April 16, 2006
The Victoria Advocate
Copyright 2006
Editor, the Advocate:
I noticed that Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority is shopping around for $200,000 to help fund yet another study as to why the Lower Guadalupe Basin can stay flooded for up to nine months at a time. First, any idiot can drive across the river and see part of the problem. The river channel is silted up and needs to be scraped out. How about doing that first? Second, considering GBRA's $47 million budget surplus, it's a little gluttonous to be asking for help with a mere $200,000.
Thanks to Bill Jones of O'Connor Ranches and Art Dohmann of Goliad for pointing out yet another pompous prevarication by Bill West of GBRA concerning his erroneous comments about nearly $400,000 wanted by that agency for the Lower Guadalupe Water Supply Project (LGWSP).
Oops. Back up. Wait. Didn't Bob Keith tell the public at a candidates forum at the college that there was no LGWSP? Hmmm. Check the videotape. Yup, that's what he said all right. Shall we demand yet another recant?
The term "Trans-Texas Corridor/I-69" is an erroneous misnomer that describes a project that will devastate northern and western Victoria County. Above and beyond the land taken for the corridor itself, there will be private land confiscated by eminent domain to provide property for "concessionaires."
And considering the Y where the corridor will split from following U.S. Highway 59 to follow U.S. Highway 77 south, there will be prime spots in demand from Fordtran through Mission Valley and all the way through Fleming Prairie and the McFadden area.
Just renaming U.S. 59 as I-69 and upgrading it is fine, but the Trans-Texas Corridor is another ball of wax being promoted by Gov. Rick Perry and his foreign investors. Investors who could pump our groundwater to New York if they wanted, and our Water Conservation District would have no jurisdiction to stop them!
Water Research Group will hold a meeting April 30 to discuss the corridor and how to derail a bad project. The public is invited to attend at the Victoria Electric Coop from 7 to 9 p.m. Readers should come help stop yet another monster. They can check out www.CorridorWatch.org for what the Texas Department of Transportation isn't telling us.
KENNETH SCHUSTEREIT
Victoria
© 2006 The Victoria Advocate: www.thevictoriaadvocate.com
Stop two monsters
April 16, 2006
The Victoria Advocate
Copyright 2006
Editor, the Advocate:
I noticed that Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority is shopping around for $200,000 to help fund yet another study as to why the Lower Guadalupe Basin can stay flooded for up to nine months at a time. First, any idiot can drive across the river and see part of the problem. The river channel is silted up and needs to be scraped out. How about doing that first? Second, considering GBRA's $47 million budget surplus, it's a little gluttonous to be asking for help with a mere $200,000.
Thanks to Bill Jones of O'Connor Ranches and Art Dohmann of Goliad for pointing out yet another pompous prevarication by Bill West of GBRA concerning his erroneous comments about nearly $400,000 wanted by that agency for the Lower Guadalupe Water Supply Project (LGWSP).
Oops. Back up. Wait. Didn't Bob Keith tell the public at a candidates forum at the college that there was no LGWSP? Hmmm. Check the videotape. Yup, that's what he said all right. Shall we demand yet another recant?
The term "Trans-Texas Corridor/I-69" is an erroneous misnomer that describes a project that will devastate northern and western Victoria County. Above and beyond the land taken for the corridor itself, there will be private land confiscated by eminent domain to provide property for "concessionaires."
And considering the Y where the corridor will split from following U.S. Highway 59 to follow U.S. Highway 77 south, there will be prime spots in demand from Fordtran through Mission Valley and all the way through Fleming Prairie and the McFadden area.
Just renaming U.S. 59 as I-69 and upgrading it is fine, but the Trans-Texas Corridor is another ball of wax being promoted by Gov. Rick Perry and his foreign investors. Investors who could pump our groundwater to New York if they wanted, and our Water Conservation District would have no jurisdiction to stop them!
Water Research Group will hold a meeting April 30 to discuss the corridor and how to derail a bad project. The public is invited to attend at the Victoria Electric Coop from 7 to 9 p.m. Readers should come help stop yet another monster. They can check out www.CorridorWatch.org for what the Texas Department of Transportation isn't telling us.
KENNETH SCHUSTEREIT
Victoria
© 2006 The Victoria Advocate:
posted by Porkus Maximus Tex: at Sunday, April 16, 2006
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