An op-ed from David Rosenberg: ‘I know there will still be skepticism,’ but what the IEDC is doing – and what it isn’t – in its study of the Wabash River aquifer and a pipeline leading to Boone County
I'm sorry I couldn't force myself to read much after, "It's the Hoosier way to seek pole position with every initiative and aim to outpace the competition. But sometimes you can reach the checkered flag without needing to go full throttle." :-(
I agree with all comments. Isn’t this article SLICK? My immediate thought was, who actually wrote this article? Some fantastic writer/ professor/ journalist? This sounded like a Pulitzer Prize winning article. If David Rosenberg wrote this, he is wasting his time in Indiana; he needs to move to the federal arena where he can convince those who despise trump that trump is REALLY A SAINT!
Wow. He's so transparent todayb but why wasn't this transparency shown months ago? Why didn't ex-Governor, ex- Purdue president Mitch Daniels say anything about all of this publicly months ago?
This appears to be a lot of backpedaling.
While many of these things may be true (as in contracts for a pipeline have yet to be signed), this whole process steps on the Hoosiers already living here, working,and paying taxes. Putting an idea of LEAP in hopes of bigger businesses coming in and getting tax breaks.
Indiana and IEDC can do better and SHOULD do better. Who's paying the IEDC to exist? Don't bite the hands that feed you.
This doesn't seem to match what we have been hearing from local government reps. Whether or not this is true, it leaves me concerned that this message is meant to placate while continuing to obfuscate. Isn't it the case that land for this pipeline has already been purchased and that the passing test criteria for exploratory well tests was not established until after the results of the test were known? (thereby ensuring that the acutal test results conformed to the passing test criteria that was established after the fact). I do not have my finger directly on the pulse of this issue, but the above is based on my limited understanding from what I've gathered in passing via recent news.
Water is not an "emotional issue" - it's a matter of life and death. Literally. Trust, when plans are made with no transparency and no intention to take into consideration the consequences, has been completely lost in the IEDC. The "hydrologists with deep expertise" did NOT study what would happen to existing wells. They cannot do that over the course of a few weeks. A true study of aquifers would take YEARS, and would have to be focused not just on the amount of water available to feed LEAP. As he says, they are studying "water capacity" - NOT the ability of the aquifer to replenish itself. The "potential wellhead design" they are considering could do serious damage to the aquifer. Whether or not there is ever a "need" for it at LEAP, such a pipeline should NEVER BE BUILT. "There is not a scenario in which wells in the Lafayette region dry up" Not in a week. Not in a year. But if such a pipeline is built, oh yes there is. If they got the manufacturing they want, built a pipeline and took the water, and then wells started to dry up, who thinks they would turn off the pipeline? NOBODY. LEAP IS most certainly competing with our area for water.
"We are working with legislative partners on protecting this critical resource " Sure, now you are. Now that the people have found out what you were planning. Was protection of water resources on the legislative radar ? Um, no. The third-party reviews IEDC has planned will be done by hand-picked entities chosen by IEDC. Purdue entities, who clearly want this to go through.
"it’s my goal to ensure our communities are supported and have the information needed" Right. That's why this plan, these studies, were all done in the open. Not.
Seems like a lot of patronizing CYA to me.
I'm sorry I couldn't force myself to read much after, "It's the Hoosier way to seek pole position with every initiative and aim to outpace the competition. But sometimes you can reach the checkered flag without needing to go full throttle." :-(
Yeah, that is some stupid BS right there
"hydrologists with deep expertise in examining well-known (but greatly misunderstood) basins like the Wabash River and its aquifers"
Translation: "We know more than you and we're gonna do whatever we want."
Right out of the Mitch playbook.
A little late for this letter, ya think?
Why did previous Secretary of commerce leave his position? Was he replaced because of what happened here, or?
Brad Chambers left this summer. He's among the Republican candidates for governor in 2024.
And, I believe, he is against the plan to take water.
I agree with all comments. Isn’t this article SLICK? My immediate thought was, who actually wrote this article? Some fantastic writer/ professor/ journalist? This sounded like a Pulitzer Prize winning article. If David Rosenberg wrote this, he is wasting his time in Indiana; he needs to move to the federal arena where he can convince those who despise trump that trump is REALLY A SAINT!
Wow. He's so transparent todayb but why wasn't this transparency shown months ago? Why didn't ex-Governor, ex- Purdue president Mitch Daniels say anything about all of this publicly months ago?
This appears to be a lot of backpedaling.
While many of these things may be true (as in contracts for a pipeline have yet to be signed), this whole process steps on the Hoosiers already living here, working,and paying taxes. Putting an idea of LEAP in hopes of bigger businesses coming in and getting tax breaks.
Indiana and IEDC can do better and SHOULD do better. Who's paying the IEDC to exist? Don't bite the hands that feed you.
Distrusting and getting disgusted
This doesn't seem to match what we have been hearing from local government reps. Whether or not this is true, it leaves me concerned that this message is meant to placate while continuing to obfuscate. Isn't it the case that land for this pipeline has already been purchased and that the passing test criteria for exploratory well tests was not established until after the results of the test were known? (thereby ensuring that the acutal test results conformed to the passing test criteria that was established after the fact). I do not have my finger directly on the pulse of this issue, but the above is based on my limited understanding from what I've gathered in passing via recent news.
Water is not an "emotional issue" - it's a matter of life and death. Literally. Trust, when plans are made with no transparency and no intention to take into consideration the consequences, has been completely lost in the IEDC. The "hydrologists with deep expertise" did NOT study what would happen to existing wells. They cannot do that over the course of a few weeks. A true study of aquifers would take YEARS, and would have to be focused not just on the amount of water available to feed LEAP. As he says, they are studying "water capacity" - NOT the ability of the aquifer to replenish itself. The "potential wellhead design" they are considering could do serious damage to the aquifer. Whether or not there is ever a "need" for it at LEAP, such a pipeline should NEVER BE BUILT. "There is not a scenario in which wells in the Lafayette region dry up" Not in a week. Not in a year. But if such a pipeline is built, oh yes there is. If they got the manufacturing they want, built a pipeline and took the water, and then wells started to dry up, who thinks they would turn off the pipeline? NOBODY. LEAP IS most certainly competing with our area for water.
"We are working with legislative partners on protecting this critical resource " Sure, now you are. Now that the people have found out what you were planning. Was protection of water resources on the legislative radar ? Um, no. The third-party reviews IEDC has planned will be done by hand-picked entities chosen by IEDC. Purdue entities, who clearly want this to go through.
"it’s my goal to ensure our communities are supported and have the information needed" Right. That's why this plan, these studies, were all done in the open. Not.
And thanks to your pissant/governor that created iedc! Do you still think he is a god?