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DENSKIJR
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What do you mean?

Could this be another one of those 3pm runner days?

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And here's the turn.

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quote:
Originally posted by DENSKIJR:
What do you mean?

Could this be another one of those 3pm runner days?

This ran up from .01 to .07 in three days. On the days that it ran, the biggest run started around 3pm.

A similar scenario to today, the PR came out early in the morning and the big run began at 3pm.

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The stock just needs to consolidate a new higher bottom...Which it is doing right now...

We don't want it running to hard...

A positve 5-7% per day increase per week is more than enough..

Think long man!

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Yep, slow and steady wins the race. And it's also a good sign of investors coming in, not traders.

.039+.038 are looking pretty supportive to me.

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It kinda BUGS me that I didn't get in on this one.. [Big Grin]
Good pick and good luck

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Ya, this really is a no-brainer stock...

Kinda like the old days..

If ya just keep your head you will be rewarded long.

This stock is a very easy play..

Just hold a position you can afford, at these levels ya can't lose...

When we get to a bottom of .07 and it holds the doubles will come slower, but they wiill hold much stronger than in the past..relax, and have some fun!

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Might see a little run for East coast lunch at noon.

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Just to inform exited today between .04 and .045 Im going to be gone for a week and couldn't watch it I love the bugs so far this month I'm up $7,500.00 on the bugs Made $5,000.00 this week on my sons birthday what a great day [Big Grin] [Big Grin] [Big Grin] One happy daddy off to the hospital in t minus 53 min. good luck to you all and thanks for the best wishes I'll update you next week
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Sorry, it looks like you may have sold a bit early.

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quote:
Originally posted by DENSKIJR:
Just to inform exited today between .04 and .045 Im going to be gone for a week and couldn't watch it I love the bugs so far this month I'm up $7,500.00 on the bugs Made $5,000.00 this week on my sons birthday what a great day [Big Grin] [Big Grin] [Big Grin] One happy daddy off to the hospital in t minus 53 min. good luck to you all and thanks for the best wishes I'll update you next week

Way to go!!! Money in hand is better than money laying on the table.....you never know what might happen to it. You did the right move. I say this because I see it dipping back down next week around $0.035 range. There are remarkable improvement in support....it started like dust said...$0.01 range...shoot to $0.09...I believe....then never dipped lower than $0.031...thats awesome!!! I agree with Peaser and Dust...this will slowly gain grounds....it will just take a while.
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My guess is that R1 sold today too and is looking to bring the price down and buy it back cheaper. Am I correct?

I doubt that it comes down much/any more than .035. I'm long and holding.

Congrats to those who were able to swing this today and bought it back at a cheaper price.

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common peaser, you called it - how bout the nice EOD run?

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.04 last trade.

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well peaser your're firing on all 8 cylinders!

Good call on the 3pm uptick..

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Thanks D + OP

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Starting to move. Let's see some volume. EOD run coming?

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If it starts to run harder .042 won't last long
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I'm working off delayed l2's.
on the Ask:
.042x4
.044x1
.045x3

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currently .039x.04

I'll keep you posted on a change

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.04x.041

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bid .04
ask.041

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They have enough in there at .042 to make a buy fairly easy, if it really starts to take off.
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Bid is strengthening Buyers looking to come in at .04

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Doh!

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BUGS may be setting us up for a big run next week. Waiting to see what they have in store for us.

Long on BUGS

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Good day to day +20%.
Good weekend to all.
Looking for BIG BUGS next week.

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quote:
Originally posted by OnPoint:
I'm working off delayed l2's.
on the Ask:
.042x4
.044x1
.045x3

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Working off of delayed L2's is difficult at best..When I mentioned .042 I assumed people would be working from real-time L2's..

Trying to trade without real-time L2's is primative, can't your broker set you up with real-time?

Sometimes when one of these stocks starts running hard you have to go out in front of the ask if ya want in...

I have the same thing happen on Nasdaq runners..OTCBB'S behave the same as Nasdaqers when they begin running hard..

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Hey Dust - thanks for the feedback - I'm on Scottrade & of course have realtime feed with current bid & ask & transactions, but.... I have been considering picking up the premium service (Elite) but havn't sprung for the xtra buck/mo. yet. Given my limited experience & having been burnt twice already just as you described, it may certainly be worth it.

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$1/month is peanuts compared to one tick on share price. I believe it would be a good investment for you OP.

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SSWM Mexican Subsidiary Hires Senior Petroleum Expert
Tuesday July 26, 9:54 am ET
30 year veteran with Pemex joins ETI


CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2005--Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (OTCBB:SSWM - News), announced that its Mexican subsidiary company Environmental Tec International, S.A. de C.V. (ETI) has appointed Mr. Guillermo Andrade Gelabert, P.E. as Vice President and Program Director to develop business opportunities with Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the Mexican state oil corporation.
Bruce Beattie, CEO of SSWM, stated, "Guillermo brings over 30 years' experience as a multi-degreed and accomplished registered environmental engineer who recently retired from Pemex as Director of Environment Remediation for Pemex Corporation over all operating divisions of Pemex; Petrochemical, Refinery, Production and Primary Exploration. Guillermo will apply his contacts, knowledge and expertise to develop environmental cleanup contract opportunities for ETI from all operating divisions of Pemex."

About Sub-Surface Waste Management

Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB:BUGS - News) and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM and its Mexican subsidiary company ETI is capitalizing on its licensed patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

Investors and media contact Bruce Beattie at 760/918-1860, ext. 105 or bbeattie*bugsatwork.com; or learn about the company by visiting its Web site at http://www.bugsatwork.com.

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050515/news_1n15pemex.html

Accidents at Mexico's Pemex draw scrutiny

Oil company provides much of the government's income

By James C. McKinley Jr. and Elisabeth Malkin
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

May 15, 2005

MEXICO CITY – Juan Gonzalez Duran, who like nearly everyone in Nanchital works for Pemex, the state-owned oil monopoly, had no doubt about who was responsible for his brother's death last month when a work crew cut into the wrong pipeline and six men died in a blast of ammonia gas.

Gonzalez blamed a Pemex engineer who had been overseeing the job but left just before the accident.

"I was a worker for Pemex for years, and I worked on deep-sea platforms, and there I could tell you many bad things that the engineers would do, that they would not pay attention to the work," he said. "It makes me sick."

Gonzalez is not the only one fed up in this region, the heart of the oil and petrochemical industry. The blast that killed his brother and five other workers was the latest in more than 12 pipeline accidents to befall Pemex since October.

The spills have focused Mexico's attention on what even company officials acknowledge is an old and poorly maintained network of pipelines. About a third of the network is more than 30 years old, and some pumping equipment is so antiquated that the company cannot find spare parts, Pemex officials say.

But the recent spate of accidents also highlights the complicated symbiotic relationship between the company and the government that is supposed to regulate it. Pemex provides about 40 percent of the government's income, and the environmental agency charged with policing the oil company is woefully underfinanced.

This year, Pemex's authorized budget for maintenance is almost $1 billion less than it needs, Luis Ramirez Corzo, who became Pemex's director general last December, has said. Lawmakers control Pemex's budget, and it pays some two-thirds of its revenue in taxes. Despite record high oil prices that increased revenues to $69 billion last year, Pemex, short for Petroleos Mexicanos, reported a loss of $1.3 billion.

Pemex officials complain that the government mainly uses the oil industry to finance the rest of its spending and puts too little money into infrastructure and maintenance.

Environmentalists say the company's sins, including padded payrolls and oil spills, go unpunished because its enormous importance to the nation's coffers gives it unparalleled political power. In particular, the federal environmental enforcement agency, known as Profepa, has proved toothless when policing Pemex facilities, they say.

"It's a fact that Profepa is very limited; it definitely follows the party line, they can't touch Pemex much," said Francisco Villagran Ballesteros, a lawyer who has sued Pemex officials over the recent spills.

The Profepa chief, Jose Luis Luege, has been reduced to making threats he cannot carry out. On Thursday, he held a news conference to demand that Pemex repair 35 problem pipelines, but he acknowledged that it would cost $770 million. Pemex says it has money to repair just seven. Luege acknowledged that any decision to shut down a major pipeline – and halt a refinery – would probably have to be made by the president.

To many Mexicans who can recall catastrophic Pemex accidents in the recent past, the company is synonymous with a callous disregard for safety and the environment. In 1986, a liquefied petroleum gas terminal blew up outside Mexico City, killing more than 500 people. Six years later, a pipeline explosion in Guadalajara killed more than 200 people.

Since then, the company has worked to upgrade safety and maintenance, its officials say. It has opened its installations to government inspectors, and Pemex executives now submit to public questions and rebukes in Congress. But the spills in Veracruz suggest that the company has a long way to go to repair decades of neglect along its 38,000 miles of pipelines.

Ramirez Corzo said Pemex needed to spend $12.3 billion on maintenance through 2008, a third of that on upgrading pipelines. "This is the crude reality," Ramirez Corzo said in April at a Senate hearing on the Veracruz accidents. "This is the company we have got, not the company we would like to have."

Jose Manuel Olivares Paez, a Pemex official in charge of the oil pipelines, said: "Our infrastructure has started to become old and tired. There are always risks, but the key is to evaluate periodically that your pipelines are secure. There are many points where they are not secure."

But Pemex says it cannot fix all those weak spots. Although the government keeps tight control over Pemex's budget, its ability to watch over Pemex's compliance with environmental and safety regulations is hindered by a tiny budget and weak laws.

Profepa employs 150 industrial inspectors nationally, and Pemex has 2,000 installations to check, said Jose Ramon Ardavin Ituarte, the deputy prosecutor for industrial inspection.

The pipeline from Nuevo Teapa to Poza Rica that burst last December had long been earmarked as a risk, but Pemex had promised to make improvements.

"We knew there was a risk there, but we could not do anything," said Gerardo Alvarado Salinas, Profepa's director general for inspection of pollution sources. "The law does not allow us to take preventive action. I cannot close this pipeline because tomorrow there might be a spill. I have to wait until there is a spill."

After an accident, environmental officials' tools are limited, because the law sets low fines. Since 2001, Pemex has paid less than $5 million in penalties. And prosecuting officials in connection with negligence is the responsibility of Mexico's Attorney General's Office, which has shown little appetite for taking on the company. In five years, the government has carried out one prosecution.

The accident in Nanchital in April released a plume of ammonia gas, estimated at 60 liquid tons, killed six workers in the excavation, blackened trees and plants for hundreds of yards and forced the evacuation of at least 900 people. It took two days to retrieve bodies.

Just up the road from the site, family members waited grimly. The dead men left behind wives and children with little or no money. Most had been working for the subcontractor, Reparaciones Navales de Petroquimica, for only a few months. On May 4, Pemex gave $74,500 to the families of the six men, although it said it might be ordered to pay more in the future.

Pemex officials have tried to divert blame, saying the subcontractor cut into the wrong pipe after a supervising engineer left to check on the location of the right one. But family members asked why the workers had no protective suits.

"They put him in there to work without any protection," said Victor Armas Mayo, 56, whose 30-year-old son, Daniel Armas, was killed. "I don't know how Pemex allowed this."

Mexican university to fund SSWM unit groundwater cleanup at state direction
CARLSBAD, CA, Sept. 8, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware Inc. announced that its Mexico subsidiary company Environmental Tec International S.A. de C.V. (ETI) was named specifically in an official correspondence dated Sept. 1 and signed by Gov. Mario Marin Torres of the state of Puebla, Mexico, directing ETI strategic alliance and teaming partner the Zaragoza Graduate School of Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to provide immediate funding for engineering assessment and remediation of hydrocarbon discharges due to antiquated pipelines and storage tank farms. The recent Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pipeline spills in Puebla have accounted for the contamination of hundreds of acres of productive farming land, rivers and lakes.
Bruce Beattie, CEO of SSWM stated, "In the Governor's letter UNAM was also instructed to work with ETI to form an Emergency Response Center in Puebla coordinating with the State's Ministry of Environment to train specialized environmental Engineers and Technicians to respond to future spills of hydrocarbons in the State."


On Friday September 2, 2005 Governor Mario Marin Torres held a press conference covered by local and national media reprimanding Pemex, the state owned oil company, for the irresponsible management of their petroleum pipelines in Mexico, specifically in the states of Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche. The following day, September 3, 2005, Mexico's leading newspaper -- The Reforma -- quoted the Governor as he stated that the three most recent spills of crude oil and gasoline have contaminated water reservoirs, farm lands and rivers, in some cases impacting up to hundreds of acres.
Governor Mario Marin Torres has formed an alliance with the governors of Veracruz, Mr. Fidel Herrera, Tabasco, Mr. Manuel Andrade and Campeche, Mr. Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, to ensure immediate restoration and remediation of the areas affected with Pemex's crude oil and gasoline releases, as these states have experienced hundreds of hydrocarbons spills during this year.

Governor Mario Marin Torres has requested an immediate meeting with the President of Pemex, Mr. Luis Ramirez Corzo to obtain Pemex's immediate acceptance of these remediation activities and their financial support for the same.
Environmental Tech International will be responsible for the majority of the restoration activities vis-a-vis these contaminated areas, i.e., farming lands, rivers and water reservoirs in Puebla working through Gov. Mario Marin Torres and his secretary for the Ministry of Environment.
Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics Inc. (www.bugsatwork.com) and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM is capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/29297/newsDate/1-Feb-2005/story.htm

Pemex Wants $9 Billion to Fix Pipes, Oil Spills
MEXICO: February 1, 2005


MEXICO CITY - Mexican state oil monopoly Pemex Monday confirmed an oil spill in Veracruz state -- it's fifth spill of oil or fuel in four months -- as energy authorities said $9 billion was needed to fix the country's old and rusting pipeline network.


Pemex said the Jan 26. crude oil spill occurred near the town of Hueyapan de Ocampo, Veracruz.
A Pemex spokeswoman in the nearby Gulf of Mexico port of Coatzacoalcos told Reuters around 45,000 liters (283 barrels) of oil had seeped into the subsoil from a faulty pipeline.

She said the leak was caused by corrosion.

Local media have quoted Veracruz Governor Fidel Herrera as saying the spill could pollute underground water sources.

A joint statement by Pemex, Mexico's energy and environment ministries, and environmental watchdog Profepa said Pemex needed to invest 100 billion pesos ($9 billion) over the 2006-2008 period for a huge backlog in repairs to 36,738 kilometers (22,961 mile) of aging pipeline.

The recent spate of spills has thrust attention onto the state of pipes pumping oil, gasoline, natural gas and chemicals around the Gulf of Mexico states of Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche, where the oil industry is centered.

Pemex chief Luis Ramirez is due to appear before Congress later Monday to discuss the situation.

Mexico's IMP oil research institute estimates that half of Mexico's pipelines are more than 30 years old and corroded.

While Pemex has cleaned up the worst of the spills and trucked bottled water into contaminated areas, residents and fishermen were still suffering the aftermath, illustrated by photos in the local media of dead fish and oil-stained earth.

Pemex, which pays taxes worth 61 percent of its revenue, has complained for years that it cannot operate properly with the budget Congress gives it. Last week Pemex said pipeline repairs would cost $3 billion over six years.

Mexico is the world's No. 9 oil exporter, selling much of its 1.95 million barrels per day to the United States.

A reform to ease Pemex's tax burden by trimming royalties on oil produced from new oilfields has been held up in Congress by opposition Senators wary of any changes to Pemex's statute.

The company is spending the bulk of its $11 billion investment budget this year on exploration and production, its main focus based on concerns that output from its largest oilfield will start declining from 2006.

Pemex officials at a spill of toxic naphtha fuel a week ago near the town of Agua Dulce, Veracruz, told Reuters over the past weekend that the company needs to extend a computerized leak alert system to its entire pipeline network.



Story by Catherine Bremer


REUTERS NEWS SERVICE

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http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/may-june04/envi.html


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Northeast Mexican Ranchers Worry About Burgos Drilling Projects

Ranchers' associations in the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León are concerned that gas drilling will damage springs and other water sources on their land. One cattle owner in Tamaulipas has already complained about two incidents in which PEMEX subcontractors allegedly stole property from his holdings. PEMEX is Petróleos Mexicanos, Mexico's national petroleum company.

To confront their worries the rancher's associations from the three northeast Mexican states have asked for the help of federal-level elected officials. They have requested that federal diputados (representatives) intervene with PEMEX to see that ecosystems and herds are not damaged by installation of the natural gas infrastructure.

Ranchers are bothered that PEMEX is not taking responsibility for the actions of its subcontractors, says Ramón Serna, president of the regional ranchers' association for Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. PEMEX should remember that ranchers control who goes on their land, he stated.

According to Serna, on two occasions in May of this year, property was allegedly missing from the Sabino Verde ranch where PEMEX subcontractor PGS Mexicana is said to be working.

The associations also complained to elected officials that the oil company has not told them the true extent and nature of the Burgos Basin gas project. The basin, which extends under all three states, is just experiencing the beginning of billions of dollars worth of investment. Ranchers would also like to have greater information from PEMEX about when and where drilling will take place.

Ranchers are also worried that springs and other water sources could be affected by drilling, Serna said.

Source: EnLínea Directa (Tamaulipas), June 14, 2004.

Reynosa's "La Escondida" Lagoon Still Awaits Clean Up

A group of Reynosa architects and other city organizations are demanding that city officials, political candidates and the state government finally take action to restore the city's Laguna La Escondida (Hidden Lagoon). The architects and other organizations say that too many promises have been made for too long but nothing has been done to improve the site.

Remembered by those that grew up in Reynosa in the 1950s and 60s as an idyllic spot to picnic and watch migrating birds, the lagoon was filled in with garbage and junked cars in following decades. At one point the area became a dump for a nearby PEMEX plant and its waters later dried up completely.

More recently, Reynosa guaranteed a water supply to La Escondida and 1997 it was officially declared a natural, protected area. A restoration plan was put forth in that year but has yet to be implemented.

In April 2001, FNS described an open sewage canal that ran around the edge of the lagoon. During rains residents said that the canal would spill over its banks and contaminate the lagoon.

Bruno Mariel Lezama, head of Reynosa's environment department, responded to the group of architects by saying that the city has taken action to improve La Escondida. He says that the city has planted "little trees" on its banks and has ordered strict monitoring of the site to ensure that companies do not dump waste there.

The city official noted that "it is a little impossible to be aware" of dumping but stated that two hamburger restaurants were each fined nearly the equivalent of US$3,000 for dumping grease in the lagoon.

Mariel says the city has talked to PEMEX and the oil company has offered to take care of the pollution problem. However, the company wants some "some people" to lose their property rights to land on the lagoon. Mariel described PEMEX's reaction as "infantile".

EnLínea Directa did not specify who these other owners were but the reference could be to families that built homes on the garbage that filled in part of the lagoon.

Previously, part of the restoration plan included relocating area residents. Residents however were opposed to this and protested vigorously at city hall.

To see a previous FNS article on the Laguna La Escondida and residents' reaction to the clean up plan go to: http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/apr01/feat4.html.

Source: EnLínea Directa (Tamaulipas), April 29, 2004.

The Baldenegro and Rivas Case: Incarceration of Indigenous Tarahumara Forest Activists Continues in Chihuahua

Greenpeace has joined with other international and Mexican organizations that are demanding the release of indigenous environmental and community activists Isidro Baldenegro and Hermenegildo Rivas. Baldenegro and Rivas, Rarámuri men from the embattled Sierra Tarahumara community of Coloradas de la Virgen, were arrested in their home town on March 29, 2003.

The Sierra Tarahumara, better known in the US as the Copper Canyon, is a 10,000 square mile mountainous area that begins 250 miles south of the US-Mexico border and extends to the Chihuahua-Durango border. It is home to nearly 100,000 indigenous people and the region contains old-growth forest, deep canyons, water falls, and endangered thick-bill parrots.

Baldenegro and Rivas say that Chihuahua state police broke into the men's homes without search warrants and planted guns and marijuana so that they could arrest the pair. Eye witnesses from Coloradas de la Virgen confirm the raid on the men's homes.

The police version of what happened is that agents saw Baldenegro and Rivas walking around with AK-47s and detained them for this. Upon searching Baldenegro they claim that they found him to be carrying marijuana. In Mexico, having weapons of a type only allowed for military use is a serious federal crime. If convicted the men would receive more than ten years in jail.

Environmental and human rights groups like Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Fuerza Ambiental, and Chihuahua's own State Commission for Human Rights say that Baldenegro and Rivas were targeted because of their success as community leaders and environmental activists. It has been noted that the two were arrested just days after Coloradas de las Virgen community members stopped logging trucks that were working in their community. Previously, in 2002, a Mexican court had ordered an end to all cutting in the area.

As FNS reported in April 2004, Baldenegro's father was also a community and forest activist when he died in 1984 after being shot by a high-power rifle--one allegedly fired by a contract killer working for a local, well-known narco-logging family. Other Tarahumara in the area were killed for organizing against illegal forest cutting. Baldenegro's brother, Trinidad Baldenegro, and another men were arrested prior to Isidro Baldenergro and Rivas but have since been freed.

According to environmentalists in the Sierra, the narco-logging dynamic is one in which drug traffickers buy up or use logging companies to launder drug money. In this fashion drug money is run through companies and is made to look like profits from logging. Unfortunate for the Sierra's fauna and flora is the fact that such mechanisms allow otherwise unprofitable logging to continue.

Marijuana and opium cultivation is also threatening peace in the region. Although drug traffickers used to pay a bit of cash to men to tend the growing fields, they now often pay in cocaine which leads to addiction or to the arrest of men that are trying to sell cocaine for cash. Cocaine is brought into the region by low-flying aircraft that use rough landing strips in the Sierra.

To see two April 2003 FNS articles about the Sierra and the Baldenegro-Rivas case go to: http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/apr-may03/main.html

Source: El Norte (Cd. Juárez), May 11, 2004. Article by Guadalupe Salcido.

Expanded Farming Threatens Species and Water in Northern Chihuahua

The illegal conversion of grassland to farmland and the drilling of unauthorized wells is threatening ecosystems and communities in Northern Chihuahua, according to an article in the Chihuahua City newspaper El Heraldo. More than 300 species of animals live in the region and some may be threatened by increased development including the Golden Eagle, the Harris Hawk, the Red Tail Hawk, the Pronghorn Antelope and the Prairie Dog.

The Heraldo article pointed to two specific areas that are seeing the plowing of their prairies. One area is in the northwestern corner of Chihuahua, near the cities of Janos and Ascensión. The other area is between Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua City, in the area around El Sueco. Mennonite agricultural communities in these regions are said to be responsible for most of the unauthorized farming.

José Mario Sánchez, the head of the Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente (Federal Environmental Protection Office, Profepa) in Chihuahua, said that before grasslands are plowed into farmland another federal environmental agency, Semarnat, must perform an impact study and then give a favorable recommendation to the government of Chihuahua. At that point Chihuahua environment officials must approve or deny the permit. Sánchez says that this process is not being followed in the above mentioned regions.

Not only are animals losing habitat with the creation of new agricultural fields but those working the land are burning it before they plant. Although this practice is prohibited, El Heraldo indicates that the grass is set aflame so that it is harder to detect the conversion.

Due to the slight rainfall the region receives, wells are necessary to irrigate new fields. However, there is currently a ban on well drilling in the areas that are experiencing increased farming. Too much drilling could affect water supply to existing wells in the area, El Heraldo noted.

Source: El Heraldo de Chihuahua (Chihuahua City), June 11, 2004. Article by Juan Francisco Garay Ruiz.

Northern Mexico Water Resources Would Be Viewed as Critical by UN

Along with the other states in Northern Mexico, Chihuahua has less than 2,000 cubic meters of water per person, says Salomón Abedrop López, the vice president of the executive council of the Asociación Nacional de Empresas de Agua y Saneamiento (National Association of Water and Sanitation Businesses, ANEAS). To put this in perspective, Abedrop notes that countries with less than 5,000 cubic meters of water per person are considered by the United Nations to be in critical condition in terms of water resources.

Northern Mexico has just 1,900 cubic meters of water per resident which puts it in a class with nations such as Egypt, Iraq and Iran in terms of water resources. However, Mexico as a whole is not in such dire shape. Nationwide there is an average of 4,900 cubic meters of water per person.

While Mexico has greater water resources in the south, 60% of the nation's population is in northern and central Mexico, Abedrop said. He also noted that 70% of Mexico's gross internal product comes from this same region--which has only 25% of the nation's water.

Not only is water supply a problem in Mexico but so is waste water treatment. Within the next 18 months all cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants will have to have water treatment facilities. There are 306 cities in Mexico of this size and many of them lack the funds necessary for construction. According to Abedrop these cities will start paying fines in 2006 if they do not have waste-water treatment plants in operation.

In Chihuahua City, from August 3, 2004 to August 6, ANEAS will have its yearly conference. It is the second largest in Mexico and will have between 1,500 and 1,800 people in attendance. Water industry companies from Canada, the US, the UK, France, Spain and other nations will exhibit at the conference.

Source: Heraldo de Chihuahua (Chihuahua City), June 3, 2004. Article by Antonio Rosales Rodríguez.

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