Or Blazing Saddles II
"There's only one thing coming between me and that land, the rightful owners."
Posted on 01/12/2015 4:24:30 PM PST by Olog-hai
California farmers struggling with drought say a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued Monday that keeps strict water restrictions in place to protect a tiny, threatened fish has forced them to leave thousands of acres unplanted in the nation’s most fertile agricultural region.
The justices rejected appeals from farmers in California's Central Valley and urban water districts who had challenged a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan to safeguard the 3-inch-long Delta smelt, a species listed as threatened in 1993 under the federal Endangered Species Act.
The smelt only lives in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the West Coast that supplies much of California with drinking water and irrigates 4.5 million acres of farmland. Farmers contend that vast amounts of water sent into the ocean under the smelt regulations have made the three-year drought worse for them.
Farmers say their economic interests have been ignored while officials seek to protect the fish. …
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What is the possibility of Delta Smelt Sushi?
Odds areva smelt has nothing to do with it. It’s an attempt to drive farmers off the land.
It’s California’s version of attacking the kulaks.
f the fish , take over and open the water gates
court decision is simply nothing more than political maneuvering to help the democrat governor Moonbeam in his effort to build the peripheral pipe line in order to send delta water to the LA basin.
The farmers need to present the evidence of how much this hurts ILLEGAL alien laborers. Our overlords don’t care about the citizens or farmers but prove the illegals are hurt and things will change right quick.
UN Agenda 21.
They’re YOUR politicians
Bankrupt the farmers and then the government buys the land.
You are exactly right. The delta smelt is a red herring. If we had a huge surplus of water and a surplus of smelt, they would find another reason to dump it in the bay. It is all about controlling the farmers and the land.
OMG, not already!!!!
And build a high-speed rail through prime agricultural land.
The delta smelt is an introduced fish and is therefore non-native to the Sacramento delta and tributaries, yet it somehow conveniently qualified as ‘endangered’ to crush central valley agriculture like a bug.
what makes you think the republican will reverse this?
given the emerging field.
It’s part of the long term North America Plan. Agriculture is not going to be in CA’s future.
No, it's an attempt by the Democrats to justify a $100 billion Delta tunnel project followed by the construction of a third 'conveyance' to send more water to Los Angeles.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/delta/article2607882.html
Or Blazing Saddles II
"There's only one thing coming between me and that land, the rightful owners."
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