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Relating to Idaho Famers Under Attack By Their Own Government

I Hope This Makes The Idaho Water Shutoff To Farmers Real For People

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1804124590727430232

Excerpt:

Idaho is fining Farmers $300 PER ACRE for using water

Farmers are already declaring bankruptcy

Here are 2 farmers from eastern Idaho who have just received their water shutoff orders

“We just got our curtailment letter from the Idaho Department of Water Resources and they’re telling us we have to shut our eight wells off.”

“Shut our water off?”

— “They want us to shut our water off. — They want us to turn our wells off.”

“The reservoirs are full, yet we’re being told we cannot water 500,000 acres of crops”

“Thing. If you decide that you’re just gonna keep watering, they’re going to fine you $300 per acre. Well, if you’re just growing a crop like hay, it doesn’t make $300 an acre. You’re just gonna lose money on that.”

“you look on the curtailment paper it’s not just farmers it’s commercial businesses.”

They give lots of details about the water shutoff order (see video)

They talk about more locations being effected and what the result of that will be:

— “They want to shut off just in Bingham County. So Bingham County grows more potatoes than any other county in the state and just in Bingham County there’s $1.3 ish billion dollars spent in the county. And if that water was curtailed, it would reduce the amount of money spent in the county by three to $400 million.

So you wouldn’t just be putting out, you wouldn’t just be putting farmers out of business, you’d be putting people who deliver gas out of business, people who sell groceries, you’d be putting all the equipment people out of business, the repair, the repair men, the service men.

We just had people coming out, working on our pivots and stuff. You’d be putting all those guys out of business, which would hurt everyone”

“Trucking companies would go out of business. Yep. You have a lot of guys who have storages for potatoes. All those guys, they would no longer be getting rent for their potatoes. It would just devastate the entire Idaho economy.”

“There’s already guys, there’s already local farmers who’ve shut their wells off and their fields have already dried up because of this curtailment order and they’re going to be out millions of dollars they’re going to end up declaring bankruptcy and if the farmers declare bankruptcy the banks that finance the farmers are going to declare bankruptcy and then the whole economy is just shot. It’s literally going to destroy the Idaho economy.”

“We gotta get this thing spreading like wildfire to make sure everybody knows about this. Because like it or not, it’s gonna affect everybody.”

There is so much information in this video and I highly recommend taking the time to watch it:

Video is at the link.

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Even local governments in red states are populated with unaccountable dictators who abuse their position and authority.


1,246 posted on 06/21/2024 8:17:01 PM PDT by Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn. (All along the watchtower fortune favors the bold.)
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To: Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.

Insane. Sounds like California.


1,251 posted on 06/21/2024 8:37:42 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.
***Idaho Famers Under Attack By Their Own Government***

Idaho facing a problem becoming too common today: farming state, traditional values - invaded by escapees from far left Pacific states. Escapees occupy population centers and build a popular political base for their nutty utopian fantasies. Result: legacy residents run out of family homeland.

Idaho rural inhabitants need to do what the Dutch farmers did: build a tractor convoy and tie up all urban centers in protest❗

1,257 posted on 06/21/2024 9:17:47 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.

That’s bullsh*t. It’s your well. On your land!

Here we’re getting a $40 a year tax town wide for water retention. On our part of our road there is no water retention! Taxation without representation.

I should call the ACLJ but I doubt they would take the case.

-SB


1,281 posted on 06/21/2024 10:15:22 PM PDT by Snowybear (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.

The reason Idaho wants to shut the farmers water off is to benefit Jervois Mining, the cobalt (lithium) harvesting company near the Salmon River in Idaho. It has just been granted a 24/7 mining operation permission. The company needs vast amounts of water for their processing. Lithium for batteries.


1,324 posted on 06/22/2024 11:18:56 AM PDT by Cleebie Grums (Bang the drum. . .)
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To: Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.

So far it’s hard to get a clear notion of where the gummint dicks think that un-used Bingham County water would otherwise go? If there is a mine in the Salmon River drainage that needs water it would be something over 100 miles away. Bingham County is where Idaho Falls is and any extra water there would have to go thru the ARCO Nuke reservation to get there. It’s also in the Snake River drainage which is no way short of water. There are thousands of big/deep wells for the next 400 miles clear to the Oregon Border. And they all have water rights. I need a name of the bureaukreep that signed whatever these orders are? He’s probly due for some attitude adjustment?


1,337 posted on 06/22/2024 1:52:47 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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