Environment fight against Wine Industry on the local level in Calif.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

This just came in:
COASTAL HILLS COMMUNITY BULLETIN

FREE PRESENTATION AT GUALALA ARTS CENTER
The North Coast Wine Industry:
Draining Our Rivers Dry

Thursday, March 3, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Gualala Arts Center

Please attend this FREE presentation at Gualala Arts Center next Thursday.
Show your
concern and support for our water and the future of the Gualala River.
Will Parrish,
a hard-hitting, investigative journalist in the footsteps of Greg Palast,
will enlighten
and maybe even shock you with what he has uncovered with his thorough
research on the ecological toll of California's wine industry.

His recent series for the Anderson Valley Advertiser documents
consequences of the
wine industry's environmentally destructive and political march across
northern
California's coastal counties. Will's presentation will emphasize the
rapacious
vineyard development planned for the Gualala River watershed.

"In the past two decades," says Parrish, "as the regional economies of the
North
Bay, North Coast, and Central Coast have been increasingly restructured to
supply
into a global market for high-end premium wine, the land base itself has been
subjected to a corresponding reconfiguration: mountain-top removal for
vineyards,
deforestation, pesticide use, and massive amounts of water diverted for
irrigation
and frost protection." Parrish continues, "It has been a classic case of an
unsustainable resource rush, driven by large financial institutions
working in
concert with out-of-town grape rush prospectors whose overriding interest
is not the
well-being of local cultures and eco-regions, but rather simply to strike
it rich."

Parrish's presentation includes numerous insights and slides from his
detailed
analysis of the political economy of North Coast wine industry as well as his
extensive research into current trends in vineyard development throughout
the North
Bay and North Coast including Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake, and Solano
counties.

The event is free and refreshments will be served.


Friends of the Gualala River

(and let me add GO WISCONSIN...)

[phantom power]

1. was that supposed to be "wine industry?"

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

6. Yes, Wine...

I am just on me nerves edge, following Catherina and the events in Libya and tried to get a quick post in after seeing that in my email.
Thanks for the heads up,
ADW

[XemaSab]

2. The headline says "wind" industry

I think it might be "wine" and not "wind."

[jpak]

3. DUzy!11

:rofl:

[damntexdem]

4. Had me going -- it was wine.

I've camped along the Gualala. And it's more wine country than wind country. ;-)

[Buzz Clik]

5. Ecological impact of the wind (sic) industry? I'll drink to that!