Bill Brenza, Guest Reporter to The Golden Hammer Montgomery County, May 15 – “It’s Hammer Time,” the popular Facebook Live and YouTube show at MCPLive.TV, will host an May 15, 2020, 12 noon, show in which the guest will be Simon Sequeira, the President of Quadvest, a large utility and groundwater producer in southwest Montgomery County. […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Austin and Conroe, March 30 – The Supreme Court of Texas ruled against the San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA) in an opinion, which Justice Brent Busby delivered on behalf of the Court on Friday, March 27, 2020, early in the morning. Later that afternoon, SJRA retaliated by filing a new […]
Conroe, August 1 – Simon Sequeira, President of Quadvest Water and Sewer Utility, set the record about water straight and accused the San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA) of price-gouging. SJRA advocates water purchases from SJRA’s surface water inventory and is pushing to regulate groundwater out of the competitive water market. Sequeira is the Eighth Most […]
Montgomery County, July 25 – While neither property rights advocates, Board members of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District, nor San Jacinto River Authority General Manager Jace Houston and his pro-surface water allies have mentioned it, there’s actually an extremely important scientific article which appeared in the International Journal of Geophysics, a highly-respected academic journal, concerning […]
John Hill Wertz, Special Investigative Report to The Golden Hammer Conroe, June 10 – It’s time to restore the holy water! It’s time to end the unholy water alliance between the San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA), Texas Water Development Board (TWDB), and GMA 14, the regional water regulator. They seek to control private property rights and […]
Image: Renowned hydrologist Robert Harden finally got to present facts and hydrological models after the San Jacinto River Authority and its Big Water allies sought to foment fear at the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District’s Town Hall Meeting on Monday, April 22, 2019. The Woodlands, April 28 – The Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) Board […]
Image: Aren’t you proud that the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District is flushing your money, which you paid through high water bills, into programs to make themselves feel good? Conroe, February 18 – 88 days into office, the newly-elected Board of Directors of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD), which came into office with […]
Conroe, December 13 – Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) President Webb Melder began the Tuesday, December 11, 2018, Board of Directors meeting with wise words that explain the direction he hopes to see LSGCD go. Melder read this statement immediately after the opening prayer and Pledges to the United States and Texas flags. “ALL […]
Publisher’s Note: Kirk Osborn holds a degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has been deeply involved with technological advances in the petroleum industry for more than three decades. The Golden Hammer appreciates this wonderful discussion and illustration Osborne provided after a recent conversation he had with Jim Spigener, one of the […]
Conroe, September 11 – The Board of Directors of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) voted to defer action on the proposed groundwater water regulation “management plan” for one week until a public hearing on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, at 2:30 p.m., at the LSGCD’s gigantic office building located at 655 Conroe Park North, […]