The Pickens Plan and T. Boone Pickens Water Rights Grab, Video Recap
by Matthew McDermott, Brooklyn, NY on 07.31.08
It’s been a few days without any word about T. Boone Pickens and the Pickens Plan, so I was starting to feel a bit uneasy. After all, shouldn’t spending $58 million on a national PR tour bring you into the spotlight just about every day? I’d want it to be all Pickens all the time if I were him. Unfortunately for Boone—as I’ve learned that his friends call him, thanks to the video clip linked above—not all his publicity has been good.
For those people not up to speed on The Pickens Plan, Boone’s plans for water in west Texas, and how those two are linked, ViroPOP has a short video introduction to the topic. It sums up several posts we’ve done here at TreeHugger in a about two and a half minutes of ‘a cut every second won’t distract people will it?’ video goodness.
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Finally someone really rolls out the facts behind his plan. I wonder if he'd go through with it if his water rights were stripped?
Wow, that's serious! I suppose this plan is to prevent Dallas from becoming as dry as Atlanta, but at what cost? he power transmission issue is a serious one that needs to be addressed. If those lines are built, how much of an environmental issue is it to also put a water pipeline along the same path?
OK we get the point, but holy crap! That video was designed by a bunch of ADD kids who missed their Ritalin dose and dropped some acid to boot! If the point of such a video is to influence those with the power to do something about it (i.e. aging politicians and voters), they completely missed the mark. I could have said the same thing, without all the fluff, in 30 seconds. Look to Cusack's anti-McCain ad on moveon.org as a good example of how this should be done.
I knew there was something else to T-Bone wanting to install just Windwills. Now I know. You can't trust anybody.
Dude, the guy is a billionaire in his 80's. Profit can't be his only motivation.
son of a bee sting we have been lied to by oilman again!
As you said Virgil, I'm pretty sure the target audience isn't stuffy suits in office, it's the public at large, a much more receptive audience for one, and much more likely to know what the internet is for two.
Proving yet again that water will be the next big boom now that oil is dying...follow the money...
The water aquifer he's planning on draining and piping to Dallas is the Ogallala Aquifer. It supports nearly 100% of all residential, industrial, and agriculture in the High plains Region as well as supports 20% all the wheat, corn, cotton, and cattle produced in the United States.
This is a serious issue for everyone, but it's the livelihood of millions of people that rely on the Ogallala Aquifer. I posted more on my blog here as well as info about another issue that the Ogallala Aquifer is facing.