Re: Diverting water for irrigation

In article <l9rfn1505fvbmuk1q3kmsfmamh44v2hd2b@xxxxxxx>, Gary
Reichlinger wrote:
> If you do not like living in cities,
Who said I don't like living in cities? There are certain cities
that are definitely arguments in favour of redeveloping with an
asteroid impact, but others that are quite acceptable. If it's size
that's the determining factor (and it's one of several), then I'd put
the dividing line somewhere between the sizes of Edinburgh (quite
acceptable, from the modest amount of time I've spent there) and
Glasgow (where did I put those co-ordinates for the ICBM?).

> just move to the Great Plains of the US.
>
"Great" and "Plains" may be a geomorphologically plausible way
of combining words, but the compound noun is self-contradictory.
(Personal history - my area of origin could muster about 25m of relief
over several kilometers and I had to use a brick wall to practice rock
climbing ; I live now where I chose to go to university, the one
"closest to the big mountains, and furthest from my parents" as I would
sometimes describe the place.)

> There is plenty of room and (depending on location)
> available oilfield jobs.
>
I've often puzzled over why we (my employers and their
competitors) bother to employ people who live hundreds of miles from
the heliport. The hassle of trying to get someone from the wilds of
Welsh Wales, to an airport, then to Aberdeen, in time to get them
offshore ... arrrgh - an ever repeating problem. But the fact of the
matter is, we can't find the people who want to live locally. And when
we do find someone who lives locally, there's little we can do to force
them to stay in the area. And in any case, living in Aberdeen (20
minutes by bus from the airport/ heliport) can be a real pain in the
proverbials when I've got to travel half-way around the world for work.
Of course, unskilled labour (roughnecks, catering, rousties etc,
people with only a 5-10 year working lifetime) mostly live locally, for
the simple reason that companies (illegally) refuse to pay the travel
costs of employees to get to the heliport.

> However, the only time we have off shore
> wells is when the creek floods.
>
Ha ha.
--
Aidan Karley,
Aberdeen, Scotland,
Location: 57°10'11" N, 02°08'43" W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233

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