Local officials skeptical of initial study, ponder independent review, as Indiana Economic Development Corp. leans closer to pipeline plan to pull from Wabash River aquifer for projects near Lebanon
NO, NO, AND MORE NO! Don’t you get it? The deals are already made, and that is why they didn’t want you/us to know until it was too late to stop it. Why would you believe anything these politicians and corporate people are NOT telling you? We can’t trust Purdue (well certainly not the president, who has said openly he is FOR the deal), when we pay a TEXAS firm to tell us the truth? As if we would trust anyone saying anything form the horrible state of texas, which is on par with Putin and the great country of Russia. Again I ask why the corporation is NOT going to be in tippecanoe county where the water is? Then there would be no need for the pipeline! And someone would not make a ton of $ off this deal. Why don’t our questions get answered? Because if you knew the real deal, you would never allow it. Wake up city and county officials and protect the people who trusted you and elected you, not to sell us down the river.
"The plan would have 'minimal impacts'" on the people downstream. So, there will BE impacts; they already know that. Exactly what??
"Taking it a step further, David Rosenberg, (WHO JUST HAPPENS TO LIVE IN THE AREA GETTING THE WATER) Indiana’s new secretary of commerce, called the work an investment “to support the growth of Indiana as a whole” that “will have a transformational return for generations to come.”"
I'm pretty sure that's what the people moving water around out West thought, and maybe still think. But they're in a world of hurt after overdeveloping areas that didn't have enough water to support the development. Is Indiana REALLY hellbent on ignoring the lessons learned out West??
Again, it's stupid to create this kind of water-hungry development where there isn't enough water, when our state BORDERS a Great Lake, where there would be plenty. And in an area that could use high-tech development.
Also - the people who WANT to do this, are telling us that THEIR test show everything is just FINE. Why do we not believe them? Because it's all coming from one source.
They are answering the wrong question because it's the question they want to answer. There will be plenty of water for us to take what we want. All they are testing is whether the wells give them the water they want.
But the real question is, what are the consequences of taking all that water, consequences to the place from which it is taken? Also, what happens when the "development" wants even MORE water than the 36 billion gallons it's planning to take?
This appears to be a done deal, even before ground was broke. The only recourse for Tippecanoe County is to require water flow meters to charge who ever will be using water from the aquifer. Tippecanoe County can then use that revenue to help our veterans, the poor, schools, health clinics and so on. 10 million gallons a day at say 10 cents per cubic foot, that’s a lot of money for each day. I’m sure our one party state legislators will create a tax. Let’s hope Mike Braun is NOT elected Governor.
People I believe generally have little idea of what the facts are on either side of this issue. The aquifer being discussed is to the bottom several hundred feet below grade. It has nothing to do with the depth of the water in the Wabash river. Farmers have been pulling irrigation water in massive amounts for decades from underground and probably in most cases from above the actual aquifer and it’s not changed a thing. All the local government officials by default have to say they are “concerned” because the electorate demand they say that. It’s been a done deal since before it hit the press it’s driving jobs across the state and certainly even in Tippecanoe County. Purdue is desperate for LEEP to happen so of course as an Institution they will publicly keep there head low and watch it happen. The base assumption that it’s a bad thing is every bit as unfounded and it’s a good thing. It won’t matter who gets paid to do the research the detractors will claim it was fake news. Mayne the most qualified folks to do the investigation are from Texas? Who knows. Either way - it’s happening. Let’s move on
But the water farmers take mostly ends up back on the land from which it's been taken. Not piped miles away, never to be returned. This is a different thing.
My base assumption is that those behind this development have not seriously studied the impacts on the aquifer or the local ecology, and they're going to keep on trying not to. Because Indiana. Have we learned nothing from the decimation of aquifers out West??
NO, NO, AND MORE NO! Don’t you get it? The deals are already made, and that is why they didn’t want you/us to know until it was too late to stop it. Why would you believe anything these politicians and corporate people are NOT telling you? We can’t trust Purdue (well certainly not the president, who has said openly he is FOR the deal), when we pay a TEXAS firm to tell us the truth? As if we would trust anyone saying anything form the horrible state of texas, which is on par with Putin and the great country of Russia. Again I ask why the corporation is NOT going to be in tippecanoe county where the water is? Then there would be no need for the pipeline! And someone would not make a ton of $ off this deal. Why don’t our questions get answered? Because if you knew the real deal, you would never allow it. Wake up city and county officials and protect the people who trusted you and elected you, not to sell us down the river.
"The plan would have 'minimal impacts'" on the people downstream. So, there will BE impacts; they already know that. Exactly what??
"Taking it a step further, David Rosenberg, (WHO JUST HAPPENS TO LIVE IN THE AREA GETTING THE WATER) Indiana’s new secretary of commerce, called the work an investment “to support the growth of Indiana as a whole” that “will have a transformational return for generations to come.”"
I'm pretty sure that's what the people moving water around out West thought, and maybe still think. But they're in a world of hurt after overdeveloping areas that didn't have enough water to support the development. Is Indiana REALLY hellbent on ignoring the lessons learned out West??
Again, it's stupid to create this kind of water-hungry development where there isn't enough water, when our state BORDERS a Great Lake, where there would be plenty. And in an area that could use high-tech development.
Also - the people who WANT to do this, are telling us that THEIR test show everything is just FINE. Why do we not believe them? Because it's all coming from one source.
They are answering the wrong question because it's the question they want to answer. There will be plenty of water for us to take what we want. All they are testing is whether the wells give them the water they want.
But the real question is, what are the consequences of taking all that water, consequences to the place from which it is taken? Also, what happens when the "development" wants even MORE water than the 36 billion gallons it's planning to take?
I am TERRIFIED!! I live ~1 mile away from these blasted wells. What on earth can we do!?!
This appears to be a done deal, even before ground was broke. The only recourse for Tippecanoe County is to require water flow meters to charge who ever will be using water from the aquifer. Tippecanoe County can then use that revenue to help our veterans, the poor, schools, health clinics and so on. 10 million gallons a day at say 10 cents per cubic foot, that’s a lot of money for each day. I’m sure our one party state legislators will create a tax. Let’s hope Mike Braun is NOT elected Governor.
Only there is no law to allow us to charge for the water. They can just take it, and take as much as they want, as long as they own a little land.
People I believe generally have little idea of what the facts are on either side of this issue. The aquifer being discussed is to the bottom several hundred feet below grade. It has nothing to do with the depth of the water in the Wabash river. Farmers have been pulling irrigation water in massive amounts for decades from underground and probably in most cases from above the actual aquifer and it’s not changed a thing. All the local government officials by default have to say they are “concerned” because the electorate demand they say that. It’s been a done deal since before it hit the press it’s driving jobs across the state and certainly even in Tippecanoe County. Purdue is desperate for LEEP to happen so of course as an Institution they will publicly keep there head low and watch it happen. The base assumption that it’s a bad thing is every bit as unfounded and it’s a good thing. It won’t matter who gets paid to do the research the detractors will claim it was fake news. Mayne the most qualified folks to do the investigation are from Texas? Who knows. Either way - it’s happening. Let’s move on
But the water farmers take mostly ends up back on the land from which it's been taken. Not piped miles away, never to be returned. This is a different thing.
My base assumption is that those behind this development have not seriously studied the impacts on the aquifer or the local ecology, and they're going to keep on trying not to. Because Indiana. Have we learned nothing from the decimation of aquifers out West??