guava dependency out-dated causing NoSuchMethod error

Phoenix has a dependency on Guava 12.0.1 (released in 2012). My project uses Guava 16.0.1. The latest version is 18. Apparently, the Closeables.closeQuitely(Closeable) no longer exists in 16.0.1 and later. Possibly earlier versions.

I get the error below when attempting to get a connection. This is blocking any attempts to integrate Phoenix because I cannot downgrade our project dependency to a 2 year old version.

Please review all project dependencies and consider uprading to more recent versions.

java.sql.SQLException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.google.common.io.Closeables.closeQuietly(Ljava/io/Closeable;)V
at org.apache.phoenix.query.ConnectionQueryServicesImpl.metaDataCoprocessorExec(ConnectionQueryServicesImpl.java:947)
at org.apache.phoenix.query.ConnectionQueryServicesImpl.createTable(ConnectionQueryServicesImpl.java:1144)
at org.apache.phoenix.query.DelegateConnectionQueryServices.createTable(DelegateConnectionQueryServices.java:114)
at org.apache.phoenix.schema.MetaDataClient.createTableInternal(MetaDataClient.java:1315)
at org.apache.phoenix.schema.MetaDataClient.createTable(MetaDataClient.java:445)
at org.apache.phoenix.compile.CreateTableCompiler$2.execute(CreateTableCompiler.java:183)
at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement$2.call(PhoenixStatement.java:256)
at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement$2.call(PhoenixStatement.java:248)
at org.apache.phoenix.call.CallRunner.run(CallRunner.java:53)
at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement.executeMutation(PhoenixStatement.java:246)
at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement.executeUpdate(PhoenixStatement.java:960)
at org.apache.phoenix.query.ConnectionQueryServicesImpl$9.call(ConnectionQueryServicesImpl.java:1519)
at org.apache.phoenix.query.ConnectionQueryServicesImpl$9.call(ConnectionQueryServicesImpl.java:1489)
at org.apache.phoenix.util.PhoenixContextExecutor.call(PhoenixContextExecutor.java:77)
at org.apache.phoenix.query.ConnectionQueryServicesImpl.init(ConnectionQueryServicesImpl.java:1489)
at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixDriver.getConnectionQueryServices(PhoenixDriver.java:162)
at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixEmbeddedDriver.connect(PhoenixEmbeddedDriver.java:129)
at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixDriver.connect(PhoenixDriver.java:133)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:187)