Posted on 06/13/2015 4:40:28 PM PDT by PROCON
In the summer of 2002, shortly before I was elected to Congress, I sat through an eye-opening meeting with representatives from the Natural Resources Defense Council and several local environmental activist groups. Hoping to convince me to support various water restrictions, they argued that San Joaquin Valley farmers should stop growing alfalfa and cotton in order to save water — though they allowed that the planting of high-value crops such as almonds could continue.
Then, as our discussion turned to the groups' overall vision for the San Joaquin Valley, they told me something astonishing:
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
Complete and thorough article citing the long road by the radical environmentalists, starting in the Clintonista era to present day and how their misguided efforts have put Californians in the predicament they now face.
NGOs like NRDC , Sierra Club, etc are a plague and a fraud.
Deport the aliens!
Problem solved.
Round ‘em up and move ‘em out.
No.
This predates the Clintons by a long margin .
The EPA was blocking desalination plants back in the 80s.
The planning for this goes way back.
Nunes is our Congresscritter and I hope he will continue to be.
The author’s solutions don’t include desalination; but common-sense ways to stop the madness without an adverse effect on California tax payers.
If you know who owns the California Ping list, ping them.
It's about hording the rest of us into unsustainable lifestyles while the elites get the resources to themselves.
Hetch Hetchy water is routed around the delta thus avoiding the water restrictions. The San Fran liberals get their water from there. Target the Hetch Hetchy reservoir for restrictions. Find a species, declare it endangered and let a fed judge cut the San Fran water by half. See how the liberals like their own medicine.
our problem is we have few people interested or capable of publicly exposing and humiliating these assholes
I remember the enviros didn’t even want to build hetch hetchy....
without that reservoir, San Fran would be in dire straits...
A great article by Congressman Nunes!
He gets it, and he understands how the enviro-nazis have worked hard for decades to bring this about.
our problem is we have few people interested or capable of publicly exposing and humiliating these assholes
Bingo! Environmentalism is not about the environment, it is about control—and who dictates and oversees that control? The “environmentalists.” Environmentalism is the same as Obamacare—it was not about healthcare, the health of the individual, but control by some nebulous person or entity who wants to dictate what your options are, denying you your freedoms in the process. Always question the premise and follow the money and the people. The wacko enviros never live according to the laws they want you to live under, same with Obamacare.
In 1975 I caught a Golden Trout in a creek above HH and part of the HH watershed.
I'm sure there's still a few of them up there as this place was 13 miles from the nearest road...no vehicles of any kind allowed.
But thats nothing compared to slabs we caught in the lake itself...anywhere there was an inflowing creek.
Brown Trout in the 3-5lb range.
They were not feeding but those darn Rooster Tails seemed to piss them off.
We kept one of the small ones every day for dinner. Everything else went back into the water.
Cancel the SF lease on Hetch Hetchy, and let it “restore itself to its natural state...”
BUMP! An important piece.
Hetch Hetchy water goes nowhere near the delta. Not even close.
The main point you are making however, is spot on.
Colorado River water, I am positive, could be found to adversely affect desert Bugs and Bunny critters, fish insects, reptiles etc.
No history of the EPA is complete without reviewing the underlying reasons for the law, which emphasized human welfare and intended to make the findings mandatory, NOT the results. Any or all of them could be overridden by the primacy of human welfare.
Then the Bugs and Buggy and pro-sodomy and the indolent dope-addled crowds entered the picture...
I was there, then, read almost ALL of the proposed Federal and State environmental laws, the arguments during the public hearings (elected criminals actually read and debated proposed laws back then!) and my memory is not that bad...
Hmmm. Can they do that?
This is criminal! Now, who is going to do something about it?
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