Lloyd Carter Audio

Lloyd's September 2011 Radio Show

lgc_admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:28:49 -0700

In his September radio show, Lloyd interviews award-winning Canadian environmental journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, whose new book, "Empire of the Beetle", chronicles the ravaging of western North America pine and spruce forests, killing an incredible 30 billion trees in the last two decades with very little media or government attention.

Lloyd's August 2011 Radio Show

lgc_admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:20:15 -0700

In his August 2011 radio show, Lloyd interviews Jim Odley of The Friends of the Whittier Narrows Natural Area, an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of the Whittier Narrows Natural Area on the San Gabriel River near Irwindale in Los Angeles County. Odley says a local water district wants to spend $22 million in taxpayer money to build a conference center/museum smack in the middle of a delicate wetlands area along a stretch of the restored river.

Lloyd's July 2011 Radio Show

lgc_admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:24:29 -0700

In his July 2011 radio show, Lloyd interviews Vivian Parker, a biologist and activist attempting to protect Battle Creek, which flows down the side of Lassen Peak in Northern California. State and federal agencies are spending $130 million in a salmon restoration project on Battle Creek at the same time Gov. Jerry Brown is permitting clear-cutting of the watershed above the salmon project, which is causing erosion and negative impacts on the creek. Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? An eye-opening interview.

Lloyd's June 2011 Radio Show

lgc_admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:19:33 -0700

In his June 2011 radio show, Lloyd has two guest hosts, octogenarian farmers Walt Shubin and Berge Bulbulian who reminisce about farming in the Valley and 60 years of water politics. An informative and entertaining 30 minutes.

Lloyd's May 2011 Radio Show

lgc_admin — Sat, 14 May 2011 18:50:34 -0700

In his May 2011 radio show Lloyd interviews Stanislaus State University history professor Philip Garone, author of the new book “The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California’s Great Central Valley.” To listen to the show click the play button above or the download link below.

Lloyd's April 2011 Radio Show

lgc_admin — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:46:29 -0700

In his April, 2011 radio show Lloyd interviews Patricia Schifferle, former chief consultant to the Assembly Speaker and an expert on California water issues.

Lloyd's February 2011 Radio Show

lgc_admin — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:04:50 -0800

Lloyd's February 2011 radio show interview with new Delta Watermaster Craig Wilson. To listen or
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Lloyd's January 2011 radio show

lgc_admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:46:38 -0800

In his January radio show, Lloyd interviews UC Berkeley Geography Professor Richard Walker, author of a book on the history of Agribusiness in California, who explains why the San Joaquin Valley is the poorest place in America.

Lloyd's December 2010 Radio Show

lgc_admin — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:46:49 -0800

In his December 2010 radio show on KFCF, 88.1 FM, Lloyd interviewed 85-year-old family farmer Berge Bulbulian. Berge headed National Land For People in the 1970's, fighting to break up the large landholdings on the West Side of the San Joaquin Valley. To hear the show, click play below.

Down in the Valley - June 11, 2010 by Lloyd Carter

lgc_admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:53:43 -0700

Lloyd’s June 12 radio interview with EPA regional administrator Jared Blumenfeld can be heard HERE

Down in the Valley - April 9, 2010 by Lloyd Carter

lgc_admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:40:06 -0700

Down in the Valley - June 12, 2009

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Down in the Valley - April 10, 2009

lgc_admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:57:46 -0700

In his April 10, 2009 monthly radio show, California water expert Lloyd Carter discusses how growers in the Western San Joaquin Valley gambled big and lost by planting over 120,000 acres of permanent crops (trees and vines) on land formerly used for annual vegetable crops. Now that drought haunts California and water supplies to the Western valley has been cut to near zero, growers are scrambling to keep their orchards alive. Carter also discusses a grower-organized protest march of farmworkers sponsored by the California Latino Water Coalition.

Down in the Valley - March 13, 2009

lgc_admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:48:51 -0700

Down in the Valley - February 13, 2009

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Down in the Valley - January 09, 2009

lgc_admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:04:57 -0800

In his January 2009 monthly radio show, Lloyd Carter discusses pending legislation in Congress to restore flows in the dewatered San Joaquin River, following a 20-year court battle, and Gov. Schwarzenegger's grand scheme to build a controversial peripheral canal around the Bay-Delta estuary to transport Northern California river water south to mega-farms in the western San Joaquin Valley.

Down in the Valley - December 12, 2008

lgc_admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:07:44 -0800

Down in the Valley - October 10, 2008

lgc_admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:04:20 -0700

In his October 2008 monthly radio show, Lloyd interviews University of California San Diego professor Steven P. Erie about Erie's book "Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California."
Metropolitan, or Met, as it is known is the 800-pound gorilla in Southern California's desert civilization and it faces daunting challenges in the coming decades.

Down in the Valley - August 08, 2008

lgc_admin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:13:31 -0700

In his August 8, 2008, monthly radio show "Down in the Valley" California journalist and commentator Lloyd Carter interviews Susana De Anda, co-executive director of the Community Water Center in Visalia, CA. De Anda says thousands of farm workers and poor people in the San Joaquin Valley, the nation's richest farming region, do no have access to clean drinking water.

Down in the Valley - July 11, 2008

lgc_admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:16:01 -0700

In his July 2008 monthly radio show, California water politics activist Lloyd Carter discusses the proposal by Governor Schwarzenegger to place a $9.3 billion bond on the November ballot which discusses funding for two highly controversial large dams.

Lloyd is guest on KPFA Living Room radio show.

Lloyd Carter — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:16:58 -0700

Lloyd appeared on KPFA Berkeley radio show "Living Room" with Kris Welch on Thursday July 3 to discuss California water issues. Also on the show was California Water Impact Network director Dorothy Green, a prominent Los Angeles water activist. To hear the show (The water portion of the show begins about 20 minutes into the one-hour program)

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Down in the Valley - June 13, 2008

lgc_admin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:17:14 -0700

In his June 2008 monthly radio show, Lloyd Carter talks about Governor Schwarzenegger's drought declaration for California and what can be done to conserve precious water supplies.

Down in the Valley - May 09, 2008

lgc_admin — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:20:24 -0700

Down In The Valley - April 11, 2008

Lloyd Carter — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:14:02 -0700

Lloyd Carter, veteran journalist and observer of California water politics, offers his monthly assessment of the current hot issues in California's Water World.

Listen to "Down in the Valley" live on the second Friday of every month at 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Radio KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California.

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Down In The Valley - February 08, 2008

Lloyd Carter — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Lloyd Carter, veteran journalist and observer of California water politics, offers his monthly assessment of the current hot issues in California's Water World.
Listen to "Down in the Valley" live on the second friday of every month at 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Radio KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California.

CLICK HERE

Down In The Valley, January, 2008

Lloyd Carter — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Lloyd Carter, veteran journalist and observer of California water politics, offers his monthly assessment of the current hot issues in California's Water World.

Listen to "Down in the Valley" live on the second Friday of every month at 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Radio KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California.

Down In The Valley, December, 2008

Lloyd Carter — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

In his December, 2007 radio show, "Down in the Valley", California water expert Lloyd Carter discusses a proposed $11.6 billion dollar bond initiative measure that the California Chamber of Commerce and the California Farm Bureau Federation hope to put on the statewide ballot in November of 2008. The proposed initiative calls for new dams and a "peripheral canal" to pump Northern California water around the problem-plagued Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Southern California. Carter warns this will set off another north-south water war in California. Carter also discusses other items of current interest in California's water world.

Listen to "Down in the Valley" live on the second friday of every month at 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Radio KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California.

Interview on Public Radio with Lloyd

Lloyd Carter — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:26:18 -0700

Down In The Valley, October, 2007

Lloyd Carter — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Lloyd's October 2007 Radio Show.

Listen to "Down in the Valley" live on the second Friday of every month at 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Radio KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California.

Down In The Valley, September, 2007

Lloyd Carter — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Lloyd's September 2007 Radio Show

Listen to "Down in the Valley" live on the second Friday of every month at 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Radio KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California.

Down In The Valley, August, 2007

Lloyd Carter — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700

This month show's top issue is a proposal by the nation's largest federal irrigation water district, the mammoth Westlands Water District, to garner 15 trillion gallons of California's precious water over the next 60 years. That water has a potential value on the retail market of $20 to $40 billion dollars although Westlands will be buying that water for perhaps 15-20 percent of its true market value.

Listen to "Down in the Valley" live on the second Friday of every month at 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Radio KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California.

Down In The Valley, July, 2007

Lloyd Carter — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Lloyd's July 2007 Radio Show.

Listen to "Down in the Valley" live on the second Friday of every month at 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Radio KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California.

California's Delta In Crisis

Lloyd Carter — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700

In his fourth episode of Tales of the Hydraulic Brotherhood, California water expert and writer Lloyd Carter talks about the ecological crisis facing the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary in the long hot summer of 2007. Los Angeles is experiencing its driest year on record and increasing water exports of Northern California water from the Delta to San Joaquin Valley farms and Southern California have caused the collapse of the Delta's fishery. The three-inch Delta Smelt, a critical part of the Delta fishery food chain, is teetering on the brink of extinction.

Down In The Valley, June, 2007

Lloyd Carter — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Lloyd's June 2007 Radio Show

Listen to "Down in the Valley" live on the second Friday of every month at 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Radio KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California.

Selenium Poisoning the American West

Lloyd Carter — Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700

In his third episode of Tales of the Hydraulic Brotherhood, California water expert Lloyd Carter talks about the threat posed by the trace element selenium to farmland, rivers, wetlands and wildlife in the western United States. Using the selenium poisoning of the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in the early 1980s as an example, Carter shows how little has been done by the federal government or state governments to halt selenium contamination caused by irrigation and mining activities.

Subsidy Gravy Train

Lloyd Carter — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700

In his second installment of "Tales of the Hydraulic Brotherhood" California writer and water expert Lloyd Carter talks about the enormous water and crop subsidies flowing in disproportionate amounts to huge factories in the field in Central California's irrigation country. While California big agribusiness operations hide behind the "family farmer" label, they continue to rake in half a billion dollars a year in taxpayer money, according to reports by the Environmental Working Group.

Westlands Water District

Lloyd Carter — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700

In his first podcast of "Tales of the Hydraulic Brotherhood" California water expert
Lloyd Carter talks about the Westlands Water District, at 942 square miles the largest and most politically powerful federal water district in America.

Westlands has a drainage problem caused by selenium, a trace element inherent in the soils of the western San Joaquin Valley in Central California, the nation's most productive farming region. Drainage water from Westlands poisoned ducks and shorebirds at the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in the mid 1980s triggering national headlines.

Down In The Valley, May, 2006

Lloyd Carter — Fri, 12 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700

Lloyd Carter's May of 2006 Radio Show.

Listen to "Down in the Valley" live on the second Friday of every month at 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Radio KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California.

Down In The Valley, March, 2006

Lloyd Carter — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800

Lloyd Carter's March of 2006 Radio Show.

Listen to "Down in the Valley" live on the second Friday of every month at 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Radio KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California.