Evan Smith, Editor Texas Tribune: “Who’s making money on this deal (the Vista Ridge Pipeline)?
Robert R. Puente, CEO of San Antonio Water System: “Nothing wrong with making money. Free enterprise and Capitalism are what makes this world go.”
– Symposium: Conversations on Water–The Vista Ridge Pipeline Proposal and its Local Impact, University of Texas, San Antonio, August 12, 2014.
“Which large U.S. city will be the first to run out of water?” is a question being asked as a result of a new study by The Environmental Hydrology Laboratory at the University of Florida. The study ranked San Antonio worst out of 225 U.S. cities as to drought vulnerability. And Los Angeles was nearly so, ranked at 220.
San Antonio and Los Angeles are both ranked high in drought vulnerability despite that both have depended on conservation as the major water policy for several decades.…
Continue Reading“In the past ten years the world has added three-quarters of a billion people to the middle class. For more than two centuries the United States has helped lead many of these advancements by spreading our ideals of free markets, free trade, rule-of-law, and limited state involvement that allow private initiative to innovate and drive advances.”
Chevron CEO John Watson’s pro-energy emphasis in public forums has been featured at MasterResource before. His latest speech was made before the Economic Club of Minnesota in Minneapolis on September 16, 2014. It is reproduced (subtitles added) in its entirety.
Minnesota is home to so many great companies…3M, Target, General Mills, Cargill and others that play a very important role in our country’s economic growth. These companies and the other members of the Economic Club of Minnesota are providing jobs and opportunity for this community and serving as an example of leadership for the entire Midwest.…
Continue Reading“We believe that some highly qualified scientists should be taking a more clear-eyed look at the data policymakers are using to draw conclusions which have resulted in a regulatory structure that inhibits economic activity and stifles innovation.”
– Pat Michaels, director, Center for the Study of Science, September 19, 2014.
The Cato Institute is expanding the reach of its Center for the Study of Science, one of its ten centers. [1] The Center began two years ago with a scholarly mission to investigate and document the role of government incentives in shaping science. This role is quite evident in the realm of global warming–and the jungle of government regulations that have grown up around it.
The Center was initially built around the climate issue (thus my early involvement). But the influence of a large centralized source of decision-making and funding is to be found in a broad range disciplines—and so part of our expanded efforts will towards enlarging our base of experts and topics covered.…
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