Thank you for posting this.
As someone who does not live in or border the area in question, I have not been following this closely.
But in reading both parts, 1 and 2, I came to the following conclusions:
- This was a done deal. It was going to happen regardless of what anyone said in any study.
- The studies were completely pro-forma hack jobs. They were done by people who threw something together, no debate on them, and were put in place simply to fill a line on a list of legal requirements.
- They didn't address issues of irrigation at all.
- They didn't address issues of transportation of grain at all.
This looks like the deliberate destruction of the livelihoods of tens or hundreds of thousands of people, with no real studies, to satisfy the environmentalists and Native Americans.
Did I get that right?