Heather Cooley, a senior research associate with the Pacific Research Institute, an Oakland-based nonprofit group specializing in water supply questions, said that even if the Carlsbad plant worked well, a new rush to desalination was hardly certain.
Each of them was followed by one up to three supply questions requiring the students to make inferences (3 items), to guess the meaning of words/phrases from context (2 items), to identify the word/pronoun references (2 items), and to paraphrase the underlined expressions or phrases (1 item).
"Some states dealing with this issue see it not only as an environmental and least-cost-supply question but also as a potential economic development tool," said Branko Terzic, a former member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which regulates some power lines.
The issue is hotly debated in Britain and has been the focus of much public questioning about whether the British secret services used information from spy agencies in other countries that was obtained under duress, or contributed indirectly to torture by supplying questions to be asked of captives in other countries.
The investigation showed that "members of the Security Service provided information to the US authorities about Mr Mohamed and supplied questions for the US authorities to put to Mr Mohamed while he was being detained between 2002 and 2004", the statement said.
But now, with the Bush administration considering other federal sanctuaries, notably the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, as sources of new energy supplies, questions about what has and has not worked in places like the Delta refuge have suddenly become a focus of both interest and contention.
Liberty's tireless Shami Chakrabarti says that the real issue is less what the intelligence officials in the field turned a blind eye to – or whether they supplied questions to torturers in dusty foreign prisons – than how far up the food chain the decision-making went.
In the joint statement, the Crown Prosecution Service and Metropolitan Police said that there was insufficient evidence to show that any British officer had supplied questions for interrogation knowing that Mr Mohamed could be tortured.
British troops that had been sent out to meet them and take the supplies questioned the local inhabitants and searched the area, but could not find his body.
