Two previous plans failed because of water concern
By Onell R. Soto, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
The Campo Indian band is reviving a plan to build a huge landfill on its East County reservation near the Mexican border.

Posted on February 27th, 2010 by hunwut
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By Onell R. Soto, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
The Campo Indian band is reviving a plan to build a huge landfill on its East County reservation near the Mexican border.
The tribe says the plan is much improved from two earlier efforts beginning in the 1980s that ultimately faltered amid concerns from neighbors about traffic and water impacts.

Posted on February 26th, 2010 by hunwut
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By Terri Hansen, Today correspondent
SONORA VALLEY, Mexico - The problems began ominously with the Yaqui pueblo peoples who accepted pesticide practices in the 1950s so-called Green Revolution.

Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by hunwut
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By Staff reports
HIGHLAND, Calif. - The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians donated $220,000 to assist the American Red Cross and nine Native American communities affected by the severe winter weather that has blanketed the Midwest.

Posted on February 6th, 2010 by hunwut
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Environment and Resources - Energy
BY Emily Holding
The Tule Wind Power Project is underway this week with an environmental hearing last night in Jacumba and one scheduled tonight in Boulevard. The project would allow Portland-based Iberdrola Renewables to build 67 to 133 400-foot wind turbines along with access roads and a 138-kilovolt transmission line on 15,500 [...]

Posted on January 28th, 2010 by hunwut
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Inspections, repairs after last month’s storm
By Onell R. Soto, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Workers are inspecting and repairing 75 wind turbine blades at a wind farm some 60 miles east of San Diego after a storm a month ago caused catastrophic damage to some of them.

Posted on January 13th, 2010 by hunwut
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MEXICALI, Mexico, (UPI) — A pair of earthquakes measuring 5.9 and 4.9 struck Baja California Wednesday, seismologists reported, and were felt north of the border in the San Diego area.
The U.S. Geological Survey said in a written statement that the twin temblors were centered 20 miles southeast of the border city of Mexicali, Mexico, and [...]

Posted on December 30th, 2009 by hunwut
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By Peter d’Errico
We sometimes hear that science is different from traditional knowledge. Typically someone criticizing a traditional worldview says this. From what I’ve seen, most traditionalists don’t put much effort into criticizing science. Some of them even encourage science as a partner with traditional knowledge. One of the best books in this genre is A. [...]

Posted on December 30th, 2009 by hunwut
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By Priscilla Lister
For viewing wildlife, Cuyamaca is hard to beat. On its Cold Stream Trail late last month, I saw a bobcat, a troop of wild turkeys, bright-blue scrub jays and flocks of redheaded acorn woodpeckers.

Posted on December 17th, 2009 by hunwut
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CAMPO - Lightning damage to several wind turbines along Interstate 8 on the Campo Indian Reservation is being assessed.
The lighting struck Monday night as the backside of an intense storm was departing Southern California. Neal Emmerton, regional asset manager for Bluarc Management Group, which operates the wind farm said only two of the turbines were [...]

Posted on December 9th, 2009 by hunwut
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