Beale’s contractor stole 652K gallons of Tucson water. Now a Chicago LLC has permits to drain 31M gallons/yr from our desert aquifer. The full Project Blue scandal.
💧 I Drink Your Milkshake: How Beale Infrastructure Is Draining Tucson’s Desert, One Well at a Time
by Three Sonorans
There’s a scene in the 2007 film There Will Be Blood where oil baron Daniel Plainview leans across a table and, with terrifying calm, explains to his mark how he drained the oil beneath his land without ever setting foot on it.
He calls it “drainage.” He calls it his straw, reaching across the room. “I drink your milkshake,” he says. “I drink it up.”…