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Jim W. Dean - The curve ball in all of this analysis is cyber warfare, the kind where ships' electronics can be crashed without being hit by a conventional weapon and made defenseless for an easy kill.

The California Public Utilities Commission issued a $106 million penalty for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for violating safety guidelines during three power shutoffs held in the fall of 2019.

State Fines Pg&E $106 Million For Safety Violations In 2019 Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) The California Public Utilities Commission issued a $106 million penalty for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for violating safety guidelines during three power shutoffs held in the fall of 2019. The net penalty is $20 million, as the utility giant issued credits to customers bills -- by order of the governor -- that totaled $86 million, according to an announcement about the rul...

CPUC fines PG&E $106M for 2019 shutoffs, website unavailability Published  article SAN FRANCISCO - The California Public Utilities Commission issued a $106 million penalty for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for violating safety guidelines during three power shutoffs held in the fall of 2019. The net penalty is $20 million, as the utility giant issued credits to customers bills -- by order of the governor -- that totaled $86 million, according to an announcement about the ruling the commission rel...

NMiF talks with CD1 Libertarian congressional candidate Chris Manning May 12, 2021 This week on New Mexico in Focus, Libertarian congressional candidate Chris Manning speaks with producer Matt Grubs. The Libertarian Party selected the military veteran as their candidate in the June 1 special election to replace Deb Haaland.  The Line opinion panel looks at the implications of the New Mexico Republican Party’s decision to hold its spring convention in Texas. Party leaders say limitation...

John Fleck Fleck has been director of the program since 2016. His work, as an academic and a writer for popular audiences, is focused on the Colorado River Basin - its problems as climate change collides with population growth, and its solutions, as communities learn to collaborate in the task of using less water. His service as Water Resources Program director is an extension of that work, helping a new generation of water managers develop the technical skills and policy understanding needed t...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... As Central New Mexico enters an unprecedented drought year, we are at risk of losing one of our most important tools for monitoring the health of the Rio Grande. For the past quarter century, the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program – BEMP to its friends and supporters – has collected data on 160 ...

USGS Updates Mineral Database with Gallium Deposits in the United States USGS Updates Mineral Database with Gallium Deposits in the US Release Date: March 11, 2021 In the latest database update based on the Critical Minerals List, the USGS has added Gallium to USMIN. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has updated its  35 mineral commodities declared critical by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 2018. The two deposits in this dataset occur in Alaska and Texas.  Gallium is used to...

USGS Updates Mineral Database with Niobium Deposits in the United States  USGS Updates Mineral Database with Niobium Deposits in the U.S. Release Date: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has updated its  USMIN Mineral Deposit Database (USMIN) for the mineral commodity niobium, one of 35 mineral commodities declared critical by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Sites in this dataset occur in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Nebraska and Texas. “Niobium is vital to many secto...

SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service British Empire Think-Tank Tells World, We Intend To Take Away Your Food Feb. 5 , 2021 (EIRNS)—The lead story on Her Majesty’s Royal Institute of International Affairs since its Feb. 3 release, is a “Research Paper” laying out a strategy to systematically reduce food production and consumption worldwide. It proposes doing so by using methods similar to those being employed now to drive down energy use by banning fossil fuels—all in the name of defen...