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Feb. 17, 2010
 Alert: Stop the SNWA "Bailout Bill" ... The Governor and legislature are under intense pressure from the Southern Nevada Water Authority to force them to bailout SNWA's 1989 applications. Please, if you haven't already contacted the Governor and your legislator, don't hesitate. Get your friends and neighbors to call, too. See belo... More
Feb. 16, 2010
Governor declares a special session. Water Bill? It's not specifically mentioned, but ... after the specific list of 12 budget items, the proclamation goes on to say that the legislature shall consider solutions to "reduce government spending" and that the Governor can consider other business "as I may call" for during the session.
Here's the quote:
"D... More
Feb. 12, 2010
Alert: Stop SNWA's "water bill"; Preserve due process for Nevada Citizens Tell the Governor to keep water bills off the agenda of the Emergency Session of the NV Legislature.
SNWA has worked non-stop since the Nevada Supreme Court ruling to spin a crisis out of the ruling which affects water rights for their 300 mile long pipeline to rural Nevada and Utah.
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Feb. 11, 2010
"It's unwarranted and unwise for the Legislature to wade back in and try to undo what the Supreme Court has done," -Simeon Herskovits The statements from the S. Nevada Water Authority are incredible and rising in pitch. Simeon Herskovitz describes as hyperbole from the SNWA that the "water law" is in crisis. Quoting from the Las Vegas Review Journal today:
'But one opponent of the pipeline project dismissed the ... More
Feb. 10, 2010
NV Supreme Court Ruling: NV State Engineer will join with Water Authority for "reconsideration" As one might have anticipated, the powerful Southern Nevada Water Authority will seek that the NV Supreme Court "reconsider" its ruling which said that the State Engineer violated state law in denying 3,000 protestants their right to a timely hearing. What is slightly more surprising... More
Feb. 10, 2010
SNWA & State Engineer push to overturn Supreme Court Ruling at Emergency Session of NV Legislature The Southern Nevada Water Authority plans to use its lobbying muscle to exempt it from a NV Supreme Court Ruling.
The NV Legislature is being called into special session to deal with a fiscal emergency and the Governor would have to agree to add a "water bill" unrelated to the fi... More
Feb. 08, 2010
“THERE WOULD JUST BE SO MUCH LITIGATION” The Southern Nevada Water Authority is spinning so hard, it may need its own axis. ... [The] Las Vegas Review-Journal captures the angle and motion as the water agency led by Patricia Mulroy moves to defend the lawfulness of a massive haul of groundwater awards put into question last week by th... More
Feb. 08, 2010
State engineer fears 'chaos' from high court water ruling - Isn’t the law so darned inconvenient sometimes? Henry Brean with the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (see the link for the article) that the Nevada State Engineer fears 'chaos' from high court water ruling.
Oh my!
The SNWA’s preferred wording: “Pat Mulroy can do whatever she wants, whenever she wants, forever, amen.”... More
Feb. 08, 2010
“AT LONG LAST, THINGS ARE GETTING INTERESTING” - GEORGE KNAPP Remember that scene from the Monty Python movie where the Black Knight gets his arms and legs hacked off? Blood spurts out of stumps that previously were appendages, but the knight tells his enemies “it’s only a flesh wound.” That’s the same attitude displayed by the Southern Nevada Water Autho... More
Jan. 31, 2010
The small oversight that threatens the valley’s big pipeline proposal [Las Vegas Sun, Excerpt] From the start, Pat Mulroy’s daring strategy to tap Nevada’s rural water to quench the Las Vegas Valley seemed destined for some sort of catastrophe.
But no one thought it would stem from a lobbyist’s blunder.
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And that setback proved pale compared with Thur... More
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