spending several hours on the phone with Andrew yesterday. /div>
Flight
schedule for Drunvalo Melchizedek
Arrive Istanbul March 29th at 8:20
pm SwissAir #8572 Departs March 31st at 4:05 pm
Delta
Note to driver:
He will be staying at the Loundres Hotel; the one Lex uses.
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Just called Slim...he was somewhere near Dubuque, Iowa. He said he met Sunday night with some of the DC crew and that he got a
lot out of the meeting. How did it go for the rest of you? He said he never met with Steve Gomes -- did you? He also said he was bringing Katrina to Venezuela, which made Joelle and me light up. Looking forward to hearing from you on how things went. Cheers and love, E & J
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Ê Hello Dr Mizukis, Ê Glad to meet you. Had an extraordinary
time with Ayhan, Terry & Andrew in Cocoa Beach earlier this month, and look forward to meeting you too someday. Ê Terry provided my companion
and healer Joelle Claret with a considerable stock of Perfect Science formula in various grades for different ailments, and we are here in
Venezuela, safely out of the clutches of the FDA and the AMA, doing the good work. Ê You will be meeting on Sunday with two of my friends and colleagues: Steve Gomes, formerly CEO of The Warren Company
(
www.warrenco.com) and a founding member of Direct Connect LLC, and Michael Rowan, a founding member of Direct Connect and my partner in Corporate
Strategy and Communications, SA, here in Venezuela. Ê Steve and his company areÊ recognized worldwide as best-in-class (American Management Association & Anderson Consulting use TWC as their prime consultants and workshop leaders in this area) strategic alliance creators and
managers, and I have strongly recommended to Ayhan and Andrew that before Perfect Science enters into any binding relationship with anyone that its
principals avail themselves of the experience and skills that Steve brings to the table in this regard. Working with him early in the
business-development phase of Perfect Science could be the single most crital step the company could make. I'm appending his resume below, so that
you can get an idea of who he is and what he's done. Ê Direct Connect is a recently-founded (we don't even have an open-to-the-public
website up & running yet -- just the site we use for our internal work) networked virtual company that deals, basically, in strategic information
and communication between product/service providers and their potential and existing customer base. It is essentially a meta-marketing vehicle for sophisticated, large-scale companies. In my opinion, it could be extremely useful as an eventual alliance partner with Perfect Science,
but I'll let Steve and Michael go into the hows and whys when you meet
with them. Ê I look forward to meeting you someday, and in the meantime
wish you an enjoyable and informative meeting with my associates. Ê
Cheers, Ê Eric Ekvall Ê Ê Ê
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Eric EkvallÊ
corpstratcom@cantv.netCorporate Strategy & Communications
Tel:ÊÊÊ
(582) 751 3795
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Fax:ÊÊ (582) 751 7621
Cell:
(5814) 921 4015 Ê International mailing address:
CCS 388
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25323
Miami, FL 33102-5323
USA Ê Local address:
Quinta Los Pe–a
Calle
Guanare
Lomas de Bello Monte
Caracas 1050A
Venezuela
Hi Andrew, I enjoyed talking to you this evening, and wish
only I could afford to have stayed on the line another 1/2 hour! What you
and Doyuk are doing sounds extremely interesting, and I'd like to hear
more about it. Please send me whatever you can on the technology, as
well as the strategic/business plan aspects of it that you can share. I
am particularly interested in the latter since I am researching
different business models for applying such technologies, and I am very
curious as to how those who are introducing novel, out-of-the-box
technologies read "magic" in today's world) expect to combine broad
use/propagation of their technologies within the context of a sustainable
business. Ê My fax/phone numbers and mailing address are below. Ê I am a 49
year-old self-employed public affairs and political/corporate
communications consultant, a US citizen who's lived in Venezuela for 17 years,
and who hooked into Slim et al via their website in July. My interest
(beyond the self-evident objective of reducing pollution and cleaning
up polluted environments), as the attached text cut and pasted >from a
November email to Slim and Christan Hummel describes, focuses on
surfacing their technology and its applications into the field of vision of
the scientific/regulatory/corporate worlds, networking those worlds to
create alliance partners in the clean-up process, and in so doing form
a virtuous circle of stakeholders in the process who drive it and
benefit from it according to what they bring to the table. Ê These
include environmental, community-based and international multilateral NGOs;
regulatory bodies on the municipal, state and national level; the
scientific/academic community via its recognized institutions; the gamut
of alternative health people (crystal/aroma-therapists, shamans,
feng-shui practitioners, re-birthers, quantum and homeopathic medecine) on
an individual basis, more mainstream medical types, and corporations
that contribute to pollution (petroleum and petrochemical -- Venezuela's by far the largest producer of oil in the western hemisphere --
cement, textiles, agribiz, etc). Ê My desire is to see these technologies
used on as widespread basis as possible, driven by this virtuous circle, and validated via rigorous 3rd party testing protocols. A tall order, right? Well, that's what I'm working on now. You'll see in the
earthtransitions website that we've scheduled a 3-day workshop with Slim & Christan for Mar 19-21. Ê In closing, let me just say that it will be
a privilege to spend some time with Mr Doyuk and Slim when they get
together next month in Florida. This kind of collaboration, of building
synergies, is essential in order to do what we're here to do on this
planet. I look forward to meeting you some day, and if there's anything
I can help you with, please let me know. I'm going to contact Richard Kiy, Bill Richardson's #2 guy at DOE and a friend of mine, and see how
we can knit some of this together -- maybe he can shed some light on the path you should take. Ê Cheers, Ê Eric Ekvall Ê
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Eric EkvallÊ
corpstratcom@cantv.netCorporate Strategy &
Communications
Tel:ÊÊÊ (582) 751 3795
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Fax:ÊÊ
(582) 751 7621
Cell: (5814) 921 4015 Ê International mailing
address:
CCS 388
POB 25323
Miami, FL 33102-5323
USA Ê Local address:
Quinta Los
Pe–a
Calle Guanare
Lomas de Bello Monte
Caracas 1050A
Venezuela
(Here's an excerpt >from a note I sent them in November, which should put
you fully in the picture. Since I wrote this the Audubon society here has agreed to be the umbrella NGO/potential grantee, and I have advanced discussions with the cement company and Shell de Venezuela. I am trying to raise an estimated -- I still don't have the budget for the monitoring program nailed down -- $30,000 for the first phase of the project, to be followed by a larger sum for the Lake Valencia cleanup program.) Ê Ê In the last few weeks I have had extensive, substantive
discussions regarding the application of Zero Point Technology to pollution clearing in Venezuela with three key groups here:
¥ Audubon
Society de Venezuela (two board members) ¥ Fundaci—n Caribe, the
non-profit foundation that's related to of a Swiss-based (Holderbank) worldwide chain of cement companies with important assets in Venezuela, and that's dedicated to water-quality and conservation
issues here (the president and gen'l mgr of the Venezuelan group)
¥ The National Council for Scientific Research, hereafter referred to by its Spanish acronym, CONICIT (the technology assessment director -- also responsible for granting funds to promising projects
-- and a member of her review board, also a physicist with an uncommonly open mind that's extremely receptive to this dimension of
thinking about What Is Science).¥
Representatives from all three groups have agreed in principle to support and (in the case of the last 2) contribute toward funding a project which would:
¥ Bring you two, and/or persons you would designate, to come to Venezuela and
initiate discussions, the field work involved in 2 projects (air pollution clearing in
Caracas, and water pollution clearing in a highly industrially-contaminated lake several hours by road from Caracas) ¥ Conduct the projects on an ongoing basis with maximum local content (people
and other funds) ¥ Monitor, quantify and report projects' results ¥ Consider other even more challenging projects (e.g. cleanup of Lake Maracaibo) for the future¥
The idea, as I see it, is to implement a program which maximizes the potential for revolutionizing thinking and practices regarding pollution clearing here, and which involves a buy-in/involvement of key institutions here in Venezuela (e.g. the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research -- hereafter IVIC
-- which would monitor, measure, quantify and report results with all the authority of an internationally recognized scientific body; the research and development unit -- hereafter Intevep -- of the state oil company, which would propagate the technology for use in other industrial areas in Venezuela; the Venezuelan regulatory body -- hereafter MARNR -- that's the equivalent of the EPA,Ê woefully underfunded, the
poor stepchild of the Venezuelan state, currently just a rubber-stamp for the national and multinational petro-industrial complex; and selected
municipal and state government authorities in the areas we'll be working. Ê The idea, ambitious as it may sound, is to get all these institutions to commit to either actively supporting the project, or at the least to sit at the table, so to speak, and be a party to this great experiment. Ê The idea, in sum, is to avoid a fragmented approach and
develop the critical mass necessary to draw conclusive attention to what's being done, and get these projects replicated on a larger scale
nationwide, and draw public national and nternational interest to the
technologies (and their IMPLICATIONS). Ê OK. Ê I think that we are very
close to achieving critical mass in terms of moving this forward. The Belgian government, as well as the foundation of a major French commercial and investment bank -- Paribas -- have funds allotted for precisely this kind of project, and I'm going to meet with the Belian ambassador and the local Paribas chief within the next couple of weeks to see
if they will throw in with the project. Ê Audubon Society de Venezuela may agree (I have to present to their board first) to create a special
program under their institutional umbrella to be the prime initiator of this project.Ê This program can then raise the funds to do all of
the above. I would direct these efforts.
The Liaison Office for Rapid Remediation Initiatives is a Perfect Science program to assist the Native
American peoples to purify soils,surface waters and groundwaters which have
been contaminated with hydrocarbons,petrochemicals and radioactive materials. Through this office I will coordinate with the Environmental Directors from all 552 sovereign Native American Nations. At the same time I will present the Perfect Science environmental purification accomplishments to the consortium of 30 Native American universities for inclusion
to their respective Environmental Science curriculae as they deem apt.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:26:53 -0500
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Eric,
Mr.Doyuk has given his approval for you to initiate contact between Shell Turkey and Shell Venezuela. Mr.Binyildirim of Shell Turkey has stated in his e-mail(enclosed), that he will be pleased to
assist. Please carbon copy on all communications between yourself,Mr.Binyildirim and you Shell Venezuela management contacts. This will permit me to
keep Mr.Doyuk and Ms.Welch updated at all times.
Thanks.
Andrew
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I
will review the speech. Is Mr Doyuk
delivering it himself? Is it a
stand-alone piece, or does it introduce a
subsequent talk/explanation of
Perfect Science technology? Often speeches
are drafted and delivered
without a great deal of thought to what their
strategic objective should be.
In other words, what do we want the speech to
accomplish? (People often show me corporate communications videos, or elevision spots for
political candidates, and ask me "what do you think?"
and my answer is usually, "what do you want to accomplish?" -- I guess that's my
point.)
Eric; thanks for your e-mails.The strategic alliances you are discussing are certainly the cornerstone for accelerated repair of collapsing
global ecosystems. It was a pleasure informing you of Mr.Doyuk's global program for intensive remediation and rejuvenation of toxic ecosystems
utilizating the remarkable Perfect Science Formulae. I have informed
Mr.Doyuk's vice chairman,Ms.Terry Welch,regarding your activities in Venezuela.Mr.Doyuk is very much looking forward to meeting with you in Cocoa
Beach. I will speak with Ms.Welch later today regarding your request for Shell contacts to share with your oil associates in South America.Only
Mr.Doyuk can authorize the movement of that information.As I'm sure you'll understand there are secrecy agreements in place.Slim explained
that your contacts go to the presidential level in certain oil companies.As such,during your meetings with Mr.Doyuk, you will be able to personally request from him how he would specifically like to structure the movement of Perfect Science data into the executive and scientific offices
of Texaco,Exxon,Shell,Mobil,BP and Staatoil in South America.As I briefly mentioned in our phone call last night,Mr. Doyuk has been conducting extensive long term and wide scale environmental remediation and
rejuvenation activities in concert with the Turkish Mimistries of Defense,Energy,Health,Forestry,Industry and Transportation.Grounded in this robust,full scale research and development,Mr.Doyuk has approached more
than one hundred governments regarding long term economic,social and industrial benefits made available with the implementation of the Perfect
Science Formulae within a sovereign economy.
Mr.Doyuk's program for cleaning the Bay of Izmir in three months is indicative of the scope and
power of the Perfecr Science Formulae for total ecosystem balancing.As I mentioned,the toxic hydrocarbons and petrochemicals are rendered into
proteins, creating accelerated resurrection of dead ecosystems.You will be pleased to know that Mr.Doyuk and the Turkish Ministry of Defense are coordinating with NATO for implementating specific Perfect Science
Formulas for the neutralization of chemical and biological weapons.Let me know your thoughts for extending networks as they
develop.
Andrew Nixon
Chief Liaison Officer
Liaison Office for Rapid Remediation
Initiatives.
Hi Brother Andrew, This will
find you when you return >from Chicago. I can feel my spine tingling
right now just imagining the goings-on between you all. The main purpose of this letter is to introduce you to marvelous star child Siuling Bisogno, who lives here in Caracas, who gave me a book yesterday on Native American Star Myths, and who is swimming in the same waters with you, on many levels, and with whom you should have a connection. I told her all about Perfect Science, and your particular mission therein, and she has strong spiritual connections to your mission, and somehow you two can work together toward the Great Goal. I'm thinking...can you put
together the $500+ (NY-CCS-NY) it would take to get you down here while Slim and Co. are here, March 11/21 (or longer, for that matter)? I
know you are very busy, but it would afford the PS people, through you, a bird's eye view of this country. Plus you can sleep in a hammock on
my terrace overlooking the valley (since all the bedrooms are taken!). Think about it. If we sell all the workshop entries maybe we can help
with the ticket. I am probably going to see the minister of the environment next week. I am going to ask her if she'd like an introduction
from Ayhan. Want to draft something for this purpose and shoot it down to me and I'll add to it/edit as I see fit? Love and wisdom,
Eric
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:37:50 -0500
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Eric,
Thanks for your
e-mail regarding the fax package. Terry had asked me to collect some documents to brief yourself,Slim and Peter regarding our entry into the USEPA and subsequent discussons with IGT. This package of info should not be construed as an indication of Mr.Doyuk's strategic planning for
globalization or how Mr.Doyuk intends to develop his private sector alliances. The package is merely a condensed historical to present the Perfect
Science humanitarian philosophy in the context of discussions with IGT.
Andrew
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Hello
Friends,
I rec'd this pm from Dan O'Connell a nine-page fax with a lot of interesting information, but not the information I asked for and critically need at this time, pertaining to the international patent
that PS reportedly has on the PS technology, plus the report or certification that the Turkish Bureau of Standards awarded PS, according to the 3
January, 1996 Habitat II statement.
(This is the bare minimum of what
I need to keep the fire banked with our eventual partner, Intevep. It
would also be extremely helpful
for me to have answers on the other
issues I've touched on in the last two weeks, and as soon as possible a heads-up on when we can
expect to see Ayhan down here again for the
Intevep demo. As you'll recall, I was authorized by you to tell Intevep that this would be within a month of my meeting with them, which was May 6th. They haven't heard from me since then, since I have had no
information to pass on to them. C'mon guys, help me out here.)
I hope to hear
from Dan, or any of you, on this ASAP.
Cheers,
ee
Friends:
Here's a first take on the PSF by SAIC's Peter Jackson, for your information.
Test suggestions to follow.
Ayhan Doyuk was apparently called back to
Turkey by the Agriculture Minister to start the first phase of the desalinization of agricultural lands program of the Ataturk hydroelectric complex. We have no information on when he is due back in the US. He told Ralph Huntington in Los Angeles before he left for Turkey that a trip back to Venezuela to follow up on the Intevep overture was a first priority. Patience.
Cheers,
Eric
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Hi Steve,
What a long strange trip
it's been. It seems like years ago, our meeting here in Caracas, the rosy GRI "it's only a matter of a month or so" scenarios. But as I told
Michael, I am firmly convinced that this is just a hiccup, albeit a terribly frustrating and possibly scary hiccup, in the longer-term scheme of
things for Direct Connect. Where there is virtue and right intention and clear vision, there is
eventually success. There are some bad bruises
and metal fatigue showing, and maybe there needs to be an honest airing out of the "where we go from here and how" issues, but you guys are too
good to go down for the count on this one.
Now, the driving reason
for this note:
I just got off the phone with Andrew Nixon, where we
spoke for an hour and a half about where our business is going (just so you don't think that it's only DC members who spend interminable time on the phone ironing out strategies). It's the first time we've had a chance to really talk since before Andrew left for Turkey a couple months ago. Things have moved forward for the Perfect Science
group at breakneck speed, and now they're no longer trying to drum up interest in their
technology, but rather stem the tide of interest
and channel all the energy that's coming at them into something manageable. I was in Washington DC a month ago at Science Applications Intern't'l Corp (SAIC) with a dozen other people, including senior SAIC engineers, and other engineers and researchers
who specialize in water and environmental
remediation technologies, to watch Ayhan Doyuk put his Perfect Science Water through its paces in a controlled demosntration sponsored by SAIC. Pretty
remarkable stuff. Everything and more that I had heard.
I then arranged for Ayhan to come to Venezuela the following week, and I managed to pull some heavy levers and get a 1-1/2 hr private meeting with the
Minister of Energy and Mines, and with him we reached an agreement to have Petroleos de Venezuela's wholly-owned R&D subsidiary, Intevep, to do a
controlled demo of the PS formula, with a view to eventually becoming an alliance partner in the
business down here. This will include a
laboratory and mixing plant to make the original formula and mix it into its
different applications, and then a number of separate downstream ventures all based on the cleansing technology -- you probably remember
the one-pager I faxed you in February or March that detailed the known applications of the technology including everything from enhanced
oil production and refining processes to fire suppressants, toxic and radioactive) waste treatment, and biomedical and personal care
products. It's truly mind-boggling, and in the five months I've spent getting acquainted
with the group, and watching the technology at
work, I've learned to be very patient and understanding when I encounter the It's-too-good-to-be-true look and skeptical expressions
on peoples' faces.
But the purpose of all of this isn't to convince you that PS is real. It's real all right, and time (and Peter Jackson & Co at SAIC) will prove it out.
It turns out that there's some additional collateral damage from The Judah Factor.Apparently, after Judah put you and Andrew Nixon together on the phone -- and after Andrew came back from Turkey and wanted to get
back in touch with you to follow up on your
conversation with him and show you the due diligence he was working on -- Judah told him that you
not only had no interest in the project, but were openly negative and derisive about Andrew, Perfect Science, etc. Andrew was blown away, because he had felt that you & he had had a great, heart to heart exchange on the values that were driving the PS team, and he felt that he had been talking to a
kindred soul.
Needless to say, following Judah's suggestions that further contact with you would be fruitless, Andrew went his own way.He realized that the very first step that PS needed to take was put in place an airtight intellectual property/trade secret mechanism as a
prerequisite to designing a fast-track world-wide licensing program, and then entering into the alliances necessary to get the technology
out to the world ASAP. Given all that I had said about you and your experience, Andrew always had you in his sights for these projects. He loved the spirit and the values that inform(ed) the Direct Connect
team, and wanted to incorporate DC's vision into PS's
plan, and vice-versa. So he was doubly blown away when I told him this morning that, at the very least, Judah had apparently done some intriguing and
misrepresenting of people and their points of view within and between his own team and their prospective client,GRI, and that he was no persona non grata
within DC, and that perhaps he had done the same thing to poison the relationship between you and Andrew.
The long and the short of things is
that Andrew has gone straight to a NY att'y who apparently specializes in trade secret matters, and
is in the talking stages with him. He's also ontacted a Bill Lundberg from the Association for Strategic
Alliance Professionals, who's apparently calling him on a weekly basis to get himn to pony up $900 and join the ASAP and meet their members and team
up with someone who can be of help to PS. (Lundgren also wants him to meet a group that is showing interest -- he says -- in investing in
the PS technology: none other than GRI!).
Talking with Andrew this morning I realized that he'd rather work with someone he knows and trusts --
and he "knows" you and you come well-recommended. Michael Rowan's strategic vision paper on PS (attached if you don't have it -- and, by the
way, Michael spent 4 hours with Ayhan when he was here, and told me "this man is a cross between Albert Schweitzer and Krishnamurti", in case you have still have doubts that we're dealing with a jihad-driven mad scientist) of several months still rings Andrew's bell. But until a few hours ago he hadn't even ntertained the idea that you could conceibbvably be still interested in either talking to him or following
up on your initial interest in PS.
Perfect Science is at a critical juncture
right now. They are on the verge of making decisions in the next few months regarding their worldwide business plan that will determine everything they do from here on out. From a personal/selfish point of view, I'm concerned -- having signed an MoU with Ayhan and committed to putting
together a business plan for the Venezuelan operations -- that the agreements that get put into place be truly win-win in nature.
They're looking at an offshore banking/trust company (
www.ocra.com) whom they believe are best in class to organize/run their operations internationally.
This may be the case, but I don't think anyone in the PS team would disagree with me if I said that there's no real business experience at work in that group, and that they need to get off on a solid footing with
a clear sense of where they're going and what they're getting into when they start talking to lawyers and bankers and consultants, etc.
So,
Steve, would you be interested in getting back into discussions with these guys? I always saw you as the first step in their process,
way before talking mktg/sales/distribution. It would make me feel much more confident if you were in play here.
Let me know what you think
Cheers,eric
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Hi Andrew, and thanks for the "course correction."
I
sent a long note to an old friend of mine who's now Deputy Director
for
HSE at the DOE in Washington DC regarding the project Slim and I are working
on down here. His name is Richard Kiy (as in "sky"), and he's a bona fide "white hat", a very environmentally and socially conscious
individual. I also gave him a thumbnail description of the Perfect Science proposition,
and of the upcoming Meeting Of The Minds (and Spirits) in Cocoa Beach.
Anyway, depending on how he answers, the time and the
interest he might have in following up on what we're all up to, I'll see
how to put your group and him together. He could be an extremely
important ally as you navegate the
federal agency waters. I'm also appending a
brief paper I've been
circulating here among the top oil company people
and their HSE directors to
explain what our project aims to do in
Venezuela, and as a fund-raising
warm-up exercise. There is obvious synergy
with the PS program here, and
perhaps we can work together and make the
proverbial 1+1 equal 3 among the
regulatory, compliance and scientific
community in Venezuela -- a much less
onerous process than going
through the US bureacracy.
Anyway, I thought you, Terry and Mr Doyuk would be
interested in the scope
of what we're planning to do. Let's stay in
touch and see how all these
pieces fit together.
Cheers,
Eric
Good morning Eric,
Before I address what you've said here, I just want to let you know that I've
seen the email you sent to Andrew yesterday after your long phone call and I am impressed, indeed, with your in-depth grasp of what this is about and what is going on. Thanks for being there.
Now let me address
the points you bring up...
> I rec'd this pm from Dan O'Connell a
nine-page fax with a lot of
> interesting information, but not the
information I asked for and
> critically need at this time, pertaining to the
international patent
> that PS reportedly has on the PS technology, plus
the report or
> certification that the Turkish Bureau of Standards
awarded PS,> according to the 3 January, 1996 Habitat II statement.> (This is the bare minimum of what I need to keep the fire banked with > our
eventual partner, Intevep.
Personally (check with Andrew, though, as
I will), I am not aware of any
patents, international or otherwise, on
the PS technology itself. It may
be that there are one or more process
patents involving the use of the
technology, but it was my
understanding that the formulas exist as a de
facto trade secret. I have not heard
anyone say that a patent existed. If
someone has said that, I would
like to know of which they speak. I
definitely do not recall any mention
of an existing patent during our many
meetings and discussions in
Caracas. If you do, please inform me.
I recall seeing various forms with
stamps from Turkish bureaucracies in
the red book that Ayhan carries. I
almost certainly recall that one of
them is from the Bureau of Standards,
but I can't recall (sorry) exactly
what is on it.
I'm sure these forms
can be obtained. It's going to be a matter of
coordination. Terry is
heading for Turkey this week. Perhaps we can
prevail upon her to send
copies of whatever such forms there may be. When
I talk to Andrew this
morning, I will make a point of this and other
documents. We really want
to do whatever we can to help you move forward.
I know you understand
the semi-organized state of evolution we are in and
we understand the
position you are in. Believe me, I do.
> It would also be extremely
helpful for > me to have answers on the other issues I've touched on in the last two
> weeks, and as soon as possible a heads-up on when we can expect to see
> Ayhan down here again for the Intevep demo. As you'll recall, I was > authorized by you to tell Intevep that this would be within
a month of > my meeting with them, which was May 6th.
Yes, and as you know, that was before we knew that the soil project would be moving ahead so quickly in turkey. Ayhan had to return to fulfill that
commitment. The ministry required it of him and I think the Intevep guys can understand that.
What we want to do, though, is invite the Intevep and
ministry folks from Venezuela to Turkey, not to avoid going to Venezuela (we are committed to
going) but to give them a chance to see things for
themselves in a shorter time frame. In no way are we requiring them to go to Turkey, but we are
inviting them to go. We will invite them
directly by letter and in the same breath apologize for the delay and explain about the Turkish ministry
and central bank and the soil project.
I
don't see what else we can do in regard to this. We want to make you look good and satisfy their needs.
Let's coordinate with Andrew today on this.
cheerfully, ralph
From: "Eric Ekvall"
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To: "Liaison Office for Rapid Remediation
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Please tell
Terry that we could do that in May or June if it works for her
then. I need
to check with Joelle first.
Please tell Andrew that I'm intensely
curious as to where things ended up
after what sounds like a pretty chaotic
encounter between my Direct Connect
associates and the assorted Perfect
Science people (by one account, over a
dozen) present at the meeting.
All I know (besides what I gathered from a
long telephone conversation
-- not altogether encouraging -- with Michael
this morning), is that
Judah wrote me a note to the effect that he and
Andrew had a conversation
and that he, Judah, will meet with Ayhan sometime
soon. This is
wonderful Juda's definitely the person to make this
connection. Where will the
meeting be? In the US? In Turkey? When?
Also please ask Andrew if he thinks that Ayhan will sign a letter inviting Atala Uriana Pocaterra
(Wayu'u indian woman -- Venezuela's new Minister of
the Environment and Renewable Resources whom I'm meeting with sometime in the next week) to
Istanbul? If so, I will assemble a draft for him.
Thanks for the
relay.
Eric
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Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 11:12 AM
Subject: Workshops
>Andrew
says the Nahual is alive and bouncing and Terry says"the Ottoman >Empire is rising like the Phoenix on August 17,1999. Also Terry wants to
>know when you want to set up a workshop for her and Dr.Mikuzis in Caracas?
>Charlie
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Forward Delete Previous Next CloseHi Ralph,
I know I've thrown a lot of
requests at you the last few weeks, and that some of them will take time
to fill. As I pointed out to you in my last mail, think of them as FAQs
that you'd end up having to track down and answer anyway, since many
people from this point on are going to have similar questions. What I would like to get answers on as soon as possiblehave to do with the items
I mentioned in the mail I sent you immediately after meeting with the president of Intevep and his top two executives on May 13. They asked me
to giove them the patent numbers for the PS applications, a copy of the certificate issued by the Turkish Institute of Standards (referenced in
the January 3 1996 Habitat release), and copies of any publications which might exist where the Perfect Science Formula is referenced, where
applications are mentioned, or where there's any published tests of the
technology. They also asked me for two other items (names of the Shell Turkey director and of the SAIC researcher I mentioned in my briefing paper) which I have provided them.
I really need this information
within the next few days, if it's humanly possible, as well as an indication by the end of this week when Ayhan and you will be down here again.
Remember, we pushed pretty hard to move things fast down here, and we did get through to the right people in record time. In order for me to maintain the level of credibility I need to deal effectively, I need to
deliver on their requests, otherwise we begin to look like amateur hour, you know what I mean? I know the whole extended family PS team has a lot
on its plate these days, but you need to understand that I'm out on somewhat of a limb right now, with a lot that's been promised and implied
to some very important people who have shown enthusiasm and a willingness to work with us (and who are not used to being kept waiting), and
almost three weeks after our meeting I have nothing to show them.If there are kinks in the system, or if you guys are just overwhelmed trying
to respond and organize in function of what I imagine is exponential growth in demand in the last few weeks, let me know, ok? If you're working
on another tack, if there are other, parallel strategies in the works, or if there's a bigger picture building that's supercedingÊ -- or
complementing --Ê our joint work down here, just drop me a note and give me the gist of what you're up to, so we're all on the same page.
Lots of
love, keep your powder dry, and hold that vision!
ee
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To: "Andrew Nixon" <
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Hi
Andrew, Thanks for your note. One important point: as a consultant earlier this year for Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), the state-owned oil company, I conducted a research project which involved personal, face-to-face interviews with the CEOs and CFOs of the top 25 international oil companies currently operating in Venezuela. I therefore "know"
them personally, and have access to them when I need to; in fact, I was specifically asked, given the scope and objectives of the project, by
a number of them to stay in touch, open-door policy, and that kind of thing. So when we talk about "oil company presidents" we're talking at
the Venezuelan operative level, not at the international hq level. Second, what precisely is the Liaison Office for Rapid Remediation
Initiatives? Thanks for passing my request on to Terry Welch -- her name and number were given to me by Slim and he specifically suggested I get in
touch with her, as well as with a Dan O'Connell in the Chicago area. I very much look forward to the meeting next month. Cheers, Eric
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Hi Charlie: xcould you
see to it that Andrew gets this, either by voice or fax or whatever?
Thanks, Eric Ê Ê Hi Andrew, I have just fired off a 2-page fax to
Atala Uriana Pocaterra, the Minister of Environment, requesting a meeting
with her this or next week. I have taken the liberty of laying out the
Perfect Science proposition, including an eventual personal invitation
from Ayhan to come & visit the PS facilities in Istanbul, and my
intent when I meet her is to try to get a decision from her regarding
Venezela's interest in a massive nation-wide remediation program, and gauge
her interest in making a visit to Turkiye. Now, here's what would
really kick this into high gear: Can we get an official,
government-to-government invitation for her, sent from Ankara via the Turkish
ambassador here in Caracas? That would clinch things, my friend. When you talk
with Terry and/or Ayhan, please bring this up and get back to me asap.
Imagine how that would make her sit up and take notice if I could say
that Mr Doyuk has already discussed the "Venezuelan situation" with the
prime minister or president, and that an invitation is in the offing.
Hope all's well with you. Eric
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Hi Andrew, I just had a long talk
with a very close friend of President Hugo Chavez, just appointed president of the state-owned development bank, Banco Industrial de Venezuela. He told me the Environment Minister will not be able to make the yes/no decision re accepting an eventual invitation from Ayhan/the Turkish gov't to visit the Perfect Science facilities, because that is the
purview of a minister who has a senior rank within the administration, the Minister of Planning. This is the agency which oversees all development plans for the country, and through whom all ministers must now
work in terms of their plans and programs. He's also the person who oversees and issues all requests for multilateral agency financing (and
has a seat on the Board of Governors of the IADB -- the InterAmerican Development Bank) for any project -- and would thus be the person whom
Ayhan would brief on eventual World bank financing of the cleanup program in Venezuela. In fact, I got a very good tip: the letter of
invitation should not go to the Minister himself, but to a retired military man who is the Minister's right hand for all sensitive decision-making.
I have the information handy. I await word >from you on how Perfect Science wants this to be handled. I suggest very strongly that it be a
government-to-government invitation, and that the letter be co-authored/signed by a senior Turkish official -- the more senior the better --
and AD himself. Would that work? Check and see, wouldja? getting
excited about this... Best, ee
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Subject: PSF, Welch/Mikuzis
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Ê Hi Andrew, I've just had a long
conversation with Joelle. Here's what she'd like to do re Terry's suggestion on a workshop here. She wants to work in tandem with a very good friend
of hers, an M.D. pediatrician who's in charge of a ward of the so-called "terminally-ill" at the Domingo Luciani public children's hospital
here in Caracas. Her name is Milagro Guerra (a great name -- it means Miracle War in Spanish and she's also a very strong shaman -- she just spent the last year lobbying the Venezuelan government to introduce a $120 million lawsuit against US tobacco manufacturers, and the measure passed last month), and she's already involved with our project with
Slim. Anyway, she and Joelle suggest that they use the formula for a 6-month double blind clinical trial at the hospital, working with the
kids. Once the results are known, then she thinks that it would be a good idea to have Terry and Dr Mikuzis come down and do a series of
talks/workshops, etc. But to do it. like, right away, or in the next couple months, would be premature, we think, in the absence of any
documentation on the health benefits of PSF. (We also want to have a minimum of contacts at the professional level, and from current treatment
followers, so that we have something to work with.) Your thoughts on this? ee
Ê Here's a fragment of a note from Judah, answering my query whether
he was planning on going to Istanbul, FYI. You were present at the
meeting, so I imagine you have a clearer idea than I do at this point why there's so much resistance. What surprised me more than anything is
Michael's coolness at this point, after the truly exalted mood he was in before he left for Chicago. 'd love to hear from you if you can call
me. I'll be in all afternoon. Ê Eric.ÊÊ I will not be going to Instanbul.ÊÊ I will only meet on middle
ground with Doyuk.ÊÊ I do not have
Direct Connect board permission to do
this yet.ÊÊ Direct Connect is not
ready or interested (as a team) in
participating in Perfect Science at
this point, because of the "crazymind"
aspects of it.Ê It feels
god-mad, spirit-drunk, and very dangerous.Ê It
could release a Jihad
energy.ÊÊ It has all the anger potential of the
Indian Purists' letter you
shared with me.Ê I agree with everyone's view
point on this. I do think
I am the only one with the background, ability to
accurately translateÊ science/objective/western language and eastern/mythological/spirit
language back and forth.ÊÊ I have made the
statements of belief in an
imminent meeting, because my assessment of
Doyuk, based on
conversations with Andrew and the team, is that this is a
man who does not confuse
subjective reality and objective reality - doesn't
confuse the WORD
with the THING.
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(RALPH:Ê I JUST REALIZED THAT AN
EARLIER, MUCH LONGER -- YET INCOMPLETED -- DRAFT OF THIS NOTE INADVERTENTLY
SLIPPED OUT OF THE OUTBOX CHUTE TO YOU EARLIER TODAY. THIS ONE IS THE
GIST OF WHAT I WANTED TO COMMUNICATE TO YOU AND AYHAN; THE OTHER HAS A LOT OF MIND-NUMBING DETAIL THAT, WHILE INTERESTING PERHAPS, OBSCURES
THE ACTION POINTS. ee) Ê Hi Ralph, Ê Thanks for the notes and your
gentle fe de errata, as we say here. Your earlier note was perplexing,
given what we'd all discussed here a few weeks ago! Ê From conversations
re the LA meetings with Slim and Peter, and feedback from Dru's
quarter re his meeting in Santiago, I gather the interest was intense and
the response was little short of overwhelming. It's SHOWTIME guys! Ê In
the last 3 weeks I've talked with the people who are shaping up to be at the core of our business. They include Pedro Burelli and Alberto Quiros, whom you met, plus Alejandro Sucre, an equity-fund manager and turnaround specialist here (U Chicago and MIT), and RenŽ Molina (see attached) who's running a management consultancy focused on strategic
planning and business processes optimization, after spending over ten years in sales and marketing (plus one stint as CFO) in local branches of
multinational companies. In fact, RenŽ is developing a very keen interest in our project and I expect that once our research and business
model development stages reach maturity and pan out, he will become a key operational player in the business we're developing. For starters he's
an old hand at building business plans, so save your/our money on BizPlan! -- unless you've already ordered it. I'm cci'ng RenŽ on this
memo, since he's going to be walking with us hand-in-hand on the project from her on out. Ê Here is the gist of the comments I've received on
the MoU and the business plan process, and here's what we propose:
1. A more formal enunciation of the Doyuk/Ekvall PSV relationship.
This means incorporating PSV right away, with shares divided equally between each party, with an understanding that eventual equity
to investors will come equally from each party's holding in the company. The company's statutes reflect, as must a modified MoU, the
inclusion environmental remediation applications as part of the core business. Serious investors will want to assure that all facets of the
PS technology are covered in the MoU and subsequent agreements. In the current MoU the PSV organization will include 1) a PSV holding
based on the Turkish model; 2) a PSF mixing plant (based on/near a source of pur spring water -- already identified); 3) a consumer/industrial cleaning products manufacturing and bottling plant; and 4) a national (and possibly for export) marketing and distribution network. It makes no sense to exclude the environmental remediation product mfg capability from this business plan, since it will
depend directly on (2).An exclusivity clause giving us a specific period of time (1 year, for example) within which to develop these projects. The existing right of first refusal clauses for Latin
America should reflect this period, meaning that we are offered he right to exercise this right at the end of this (for example)
one-year period. 3. Expand and define the MoU timeframe.
The original 60-90 period is an extremely optimistic timeframe. More realistic would be 120 days, and that period should begin once the PSF has
been successfully demo'd to Intevep and other key parties here, and once we're able to demonstrate to potential initial start-up
investors that the cleaning products have conumer acceptance. This either through straight testing here or authoritative documentation of product ffeciveness and consumer acceptance in existing overseas markets. 4. We must have a guaranteed cost for the formula over the long term. The existing MoU is not specific in this regard. It can be interpreted as saying that Doyuk provides the mother
formula (TMF) to PSV in return for his equity position in PSV, which was my assumption. But it's not specified. There is also concern that no dispositions are made for guaranteeing the permanent
availability of TMF to PSV at any time, that the success of all PSV activities hinges on one person's availability and ability to provide
TMF to PSV.5.
Those are the principal points. Ê Over lunch with
RenŽ Molina today, we focused on the marketing/research end of the
plan. He said that one of the first questions our potential initial start-up investors will ask is what is the situation of Royal Flush AD
products in Turkey.Ê When were they introduced into the market? What market share do they have? What level of growth have they experienced? And
what has been the response of the competition (Procter, Unilever, etc) to RFAD's entry into the market? All information of this nature is
welcome, as soon as you can. Ê We also need to know some more about your actual product costs and product formulation, on a per-product basis,
if possible. I recall that glycerine, food coloring and natural scents were ingredients. Any more that you can tell me? Ê Do the cleaning
products foam as do standard detergents and dishwash-cleansing formulas?
Ê We will need need to get several case lots of the products here for customer testing/sampling. I suggest dish soap (use of washing machines is limted here), laundry detergent, and household general cleanser. Ê Well, Ralph, this pretty much sums up what our requirements are at this stage. I'm excited and encouraged about the team that's coming
together here. The putting-the-people-together part of the equation is what I do best; and now those who are on board have all the skills and
experience at not only putting together the plan but executing the project. Ê I look forward to hearing from you soon. Ê Blessings and happiness to you & yours, Ê Eric Ê
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Wow,
great news all around. AOK on the meetings with Mizukis and Babu.
I'll
send Mizukis what I sent you, or better yet, I'll send him the
Powerpoint
presentation which cuts right to the chase.
Very exciting all of
this.
I just sent an email to Andres Galarraga of the Atlanta Btaves
(Venezuelan
baseball -- or, as they say here, "beisbol" -- champ/hero) who
this week was
diagnosed with cancer of the spine, our desire to help him.
If he answers
positively we'll have a very high-profile case to use
with both US and
Venezuelan publics.
I've given him Alderson's number and
email address. We won't need to contact
Mizukis on medical stuff since
Joelle's pretty clear about it all, only I
misunderstood earlier this
week when I spoke to you about staying
provisioned with the formula:
Joelle and Terry had already worked out an
arrangement for Joelle to
connect directly with Terry via you for supply
purposes.I had an extraordinary synchronic moment the other day...ran into a young woman at the
Mail Boxes place where I get my mail and she was opening an
envelope that
said "Deep Ecology Workshops" so i read it over her shoulder,
out loud
and asked her if this was happening in Venezuela, and she said no,in California, and then I started talking about PS and Slim and theworkshops here in March, and she looked at me kind of quizzical and asked
me what my name was and when I said Eric she looked at her friend, both their faces in shock, and said "it's him." Seems like she's been dreaming
the name
Eric for a year and waiting to meet me. She's a reiki
instructor here, and
she and her instructor friend are coming to our weekly
get-together meeting
Wednesday night. Amazing grace. And the very best to
you. ee
>Eric,
Ayhan and Terry has requested that Dr. Mikuzis attend the meeting>with
Dan and Direct Connect on Sunday Feb.28th at 9AM at the Wyndham
>Hotel.Terry has asked me to invite Dr.Suresh Babu,Director of Tech Transfer >at IGT, into the meeting at 11AM. Will this work with Direct
Connect
>schedule? She feels his insights will be very helpful since he has
recently
>returned from spending two weeks in Istanbul with Ayhan. She also wants >Babu to see the caliber of Direct Connect. Peter Jackson has
spoken with >Babu and it is agreed that SAIC and IGT will collaborate jointly with
>Perfect Science down the line. Dr. Mikuzis' e-mail address is:
>jdmikuzis@pol.net>
>Terry asks that you e-mail him(Mikuzis) a
synopsis of Direct Connect to
>give him a bird's eye view. Terry says; that
until Alderson returns from
>his vacation, please direct any biomedical
questions to Dr.Mikuzis.
>
>Kayt Raymond and Claudette have now been
formally invited to meet Ayhan in
>Istanbul.Plus Drunvalo is ready to
meet Ayhan. James Sia will travelling to
>Istanbul to meet Ayhan April 28
thru May 8th.>
>The best to you and Joelle from Yaqui U.
Andrew.
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Subject: Venezuela -Shell & Exxon
Date: Wed, 20 Jan
1999 10:05:28 -0400
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Hi
Andrew, I forgot to mention last night that I am pursuing leads within
the oil industry here, and that I have particularly good contacts at the
senior management level with Texaco, Exxon, Shell, Mobil, BP, Staatoil
and some of the other European companies. When I talked with Slim the
other evening he mentioned that Doyuk was doing his work with support
>from Shell and Exxon. Did I get that right, or did Slim get his
information right? If so, it would be very helpful for me to know the names
and titles of the people in those companies who approved the support
or who are the de facto program managers for the work that Doyuk is
conducting in this regard, because it will help me in my conversation
with Exxon and Shell here in Venezuela. Cheers! Eric
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Venezuela's Chavez Faces Tough Political Choice
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan
President Hugo
Chavez faced the choice on Wednesday of angering his former
military comrades or sacrificing some of
his top civilian advisors amid the worst scandal of
his year-old government.
Three
retired army officers who helped Chavez stage
a failed coup eight years ago, accused his
government Tuesday of betraying their
revolutionary ideals and demanded he jail senior
officials accused of corruption within 20 days.
The tough comments by the "three commanders", as
they have been dubbed by local media, raised the stakes in a public feud
they opened on the anniversary of their coup on Feb. 4.
Their corruption accusations, which are being investigated by the
public prosecutor's office, went to the heart of
Chavez's electoral pledge to restore clean government and
moral authority in the South American
country of 23
million people.
"I think that this is the
political crisis of the presidency and it's not going
to
go away," said political strategist Eric Ekvall.
The three commanders accused top Chavez officials of giving out
government contracts as political favors and running his Fifth
Republic
Movement (MVR) party with the same shady tactics
that prompted them
to attempt their coup in 1992.
"We say we represent a broad ... democratic and
patriotic process and yet
we're doing the same as the
people who preceded us," said retired Lt. Col.
Yoel
Acosta who resigned as MVR's national coordinator last week.
He was joined by Zulia state governor retired Lt. Col. Francisco Arias
and
retired Lt. Col. Jesus Urdaneta, who resigned
last month as Chavez's
intelligence chief.
Touring a farm project in northern Venezuela Wednesday, Chavez
refused to answer reporters' questions on how he would respond to
what
political analysts interpreted as an ultimatum by
his former
comrades-in-arms.
The man at the center of the controversy -- Chavez's political mentor
and
legislative branch president Luis Miquilena --
angrily dismissed
accusations that he guided
government contracts to companies in which
he held shares
as slander and lies.
"The fight to the death
which we have against corruption is our emblem,"
he
said in a speech to MVR party faithful.
Chavez
supporters argue that the allegations are fueled by jealousy and
stem from a power struggle between the military and civilians within
Chavez's government where active and retired officers hold many key
posts.
For the time being Miquilena appears to
have Chavez's support.
"He's already made his
choice, Miquilena has his support and the three
commanders have been isolated," said Teodoro Petkoff, a former
government minister and newspaper editor.
But the
scandal is not likely to die down. Urdaneta has presented to the
Public Prosecutor what he called proof of 46 cases of corruption by
government and MVR officials and has demanded those found guilty be
jailed.
The political infighting takes place
three months ahead of elections for
president,
legislators, state governors and mayors. A fragmented,
discredited opposition has little hope of challenging Chavez but his
popularity may be dented.
"If Chavez stood for
anything it was his anti-corruption image. The whole
Chavez project now appears to be taking on water and listing," said
Ekvall.
Environment
Where can a citizen have well water tested, find out ways to prevent
lake pollution, or
report an oil spill?
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES), a state
agency
serving the citizens of New
Hampshire by implementing programs designed to protect the
state's environment, offers these services and more.
Consolidation Leads to Coordination
Created legislatively in 1986 by consolidating separate state agencies into
one
comprehensive department, DES was
organized to assist the public and the regulated
community in furthering the important goal of protecting New
Hampshire's environment.
Through it's three
divisions, DES is reposnsible for air quality, waste management, and
water resource management and pollution control. Also, units within the
commissioner's
office are designed to help
coordinate these diverse duties.
Notably,
DES has a Public Information and Permitting Unit (PIP) serving as a
contact
point for permit applicants. It is
especially helpful for applicants of major facilities
seeking air, water and waste management permits. People looking to
start a new company
or expand an existing one
can consult PIP's permit coordinator and a special guidance
booklet.
Today, the state's
environmental permitting structure is streamlined and resource
protection is achieved by using a thorough and comprehensive holistic
approach.
Moreover, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency recognizes certain DES programs
as "equivalent and consistent" with EPA's federal programs, conferring
full delegated
authority upon DES to
operate those programs in lieu of EPA. This has further
streamlined permitting and regulating procedures, by eliminating
unnecessary
federal/state overlap. In short, the
state's environmental permitting process has come a
long way, and will soon be more enhanced under an ongoing DES permit
redesign
project.
Education
DES has developed a strategic
plan which emphasizes education. Currently, a wealth of
informational materials are available to the public. Fact sheets, for
example, cover an array
of subjects - from
lake protection tips, to air quality program summaries. Most of these
are now on DES's web site:
http://www.state.nh.us/des/descover.htm.
Newsletters,
guidance documents and a host of
other educational materials are also supplied by the
agency. One document businesses are finding useful is the Guidebook for
Environmental
Permits in New Hampshire. It
offers a step-by-step process through the state's permit
regulatory requirements.
DES is also
implementing environmental education programs in schools. A lakes ecology
teaching program, developed by DES biologists and a Concord teacher, is
designed for
students in grades 5-8. This
hands-on curriculum has gained national and even
international recognition.
Technical
Assistance
DES strives to provide technical
assistance as well. Workshops for operators of public
water supplies, solid waste facilities, and waste water treatment
plants are conducted
throughout each year. One
special technical assistance program involves creating
pollution prevention strategies. Through such programs small businesses
learn effective
ways of reducing air
pollution and solid hazardous waste.
Financial Assistance
Grants and loans are a
further area of DES assistance. Substantial state funding for
building municipal waste water treatment facilities, filtration for
public surface water
supplies, recycling
centers, solid waste landfill closures, and household hazardous waste
collections are awarded annually to communities across the state.
Laboratory Services
DES provides the
public with accurate and timely well water analysis. Typically, DES's
state-of-the-art lab analyzes over 100,000 samples of water, soil, and
other natural
resources each year.
Public Safety Issues
DES responds to
environmental and public health emergencies. Providing 24-hour
service, DES responders work with state and other agency officials to
contain and clean
oil, gasoline, and
hazardous/toxic chemical spills. Finally, DES actively conducts
inspection programs involving various resource management facilities.
By Charles Knox mation coordinator,
NH Department of Environmental
Service