Posted on 08/05/2012 12:11:27 PM PDT by jwsea55
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — This fall San Franciscans will vote on a local measure with national implications: It could return to the American people a flooded gorge described as the twin of breathtaking Yosemite Valley.
Voters will decide whether they want a plan for draining the 117-billion-gallon Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park, exposing for the first time in 80 years a glacially carved, granite-ringed valley of towering waterfalls 17 miles north of its more famous geologic sibling.
The November ballot measure asks: Should city officials devise a modern water plan that incorporates recycling and study expansion of other storage reservoirs to make up the loss?
The measure could eventually undo a controversial century-old decision by Congress that created the only reservoir in a national park and slaked the thirst of a city 190 miles away.
The battle over Hetch Hetchy, first waged unsuccessfully by naturalist John Muir, had turned the Sierra Club from an outdoors group into an environmental powerhouse. The fight gained momentum in recent years when unlikely allies joined forces.
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The oh so saintly republicans are doing this.
This is truly to bizarre to be true. Are all of us having the same bad dream?
Years ago, Michael Savage claimed 'they' were using bleach to disinfect SF streets.
Not to start any rumors, but where do you think SF politicans bury the bodies? Just a question.
The bill in question directs the city to "devise a plan", and if this is anything like other eco-fantasy pipe dreams that's going to be quite a plan. They will follow it at their peril, and it shouldn't be up to the rest of us to bail them out when the cost of feeling good about themselves starts to become apparent.
Nevertheless, so long as the recourse isn't simply to pull power from the grid elsewhere, and expropriate other people's water, then I say go for it. Its proponents may find that "sustainable" really does have a meaning.
Not really. There are many good people who live out there as well. And California has a huge economy (one of the big problems is that California’s economy is so bad, precisely thanks to projects like this, that it’s affecting all of us) and this could really bring it down.
This is an environmentalist weirdo thing. They’ve already induced a drought in the San Joaquin Valley, in case you wondered why your veggie and meat prices were rising...
In Michigan our governor is one of these Green Republican morons who is using state and federal matching funds to buy private land for “preservation”.
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/gov_rick_snyder_oks_38m_for_re.html#incart_river_default
So these lunatics are going to vote to eliminate their own water supply. Is there a downside to this?
Pray for America
Here’s the thing...if someone would fund a eight-foot pipeline from Hudson bay....across most of Canada and down to central California...they’d have more than enough water for just about everyone. But the environmentalists would get involved and demand a forty-year research project, and it’d never be done.
My guess here is that San Francisco will vote to undam the valley...and then wonder in two years how and why their water supply is now very limited and tripled in price.
This is an environmentalist weirdo thing. They’ve already induced a drought in the San Joaquin Valley, in case you wondered why your veggie and meat prices were rising...
Only (half) joking. I would assume the good people would see the writing on the wall.
It is tragic what has happened to the Valley through environmentalism and the endangered species.
The November ballot measure asks: Should city officials devise a modern water plan that incorporates recycling and study expansion of other storage reservoirs to make up the loss? The measure could eventually undo a controversial century-old decision by Congress that created the only reservoir in a national park and slaked the thirst of a city 190 miles away.Sure, and if you remove one dam, you can make up for the lost power generation with the remaining dams. What assholes.
Charlie LeDuff golfs the length of Detroit ...video only too funny.
They are going to take a dam out up here, one that could have been a decent producer of power. It will leave a muddy mess when they do, but they’ll surely make up for it with the pretty windmills they install.........
LeDuff is great. I suspect he’s liberal but he’s not above beating the crap out of detroit politicians.
Here he beats up on the Conyers Clan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_t6x3h8vLI
BUMP
I wonder if the dams were put there for any reason originally?
Not to speak of the higher cost associated with water and power that goes with no longer using the resource for dirt cheap ....$30,000 a year... Liberalism is a mental disorder....
Water has always precipitated bitter conflict in California; not for its lack of availability but for the manner in which it’s distributed. What enviro-nazis and their lap-dog politicians have done in this state is enough to make you scream! Jerry Brown is re-submitting his peripheral canal proposal (nuanced, of course) and the enviros are apoplectic!
Is that the Boardman dam?
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/07/massive_boardman_river_dam_rem.html
This crap needs to be stopped. We have hundreds of dams in Michigan that could be producing power (Many once did) and the environmentals on both sides of the aisle can’t tear them out fast enough.
Meanwhile in the heart of Michigan liberalism they are actually going to use the existing dams. Here is the feasibility study.
I wonder how often windmills run above capacity?
Here he beats up on the Conyers Clan.
...and Conyers' wife getting publicly assisted meals and housing at a Fed penitentiary.
LeDuff has done some great pieces!
This one was a hydro power dam put up in the 1920’s, it could have been easily restored to be an actual generator of power, but the greenies teamed up with a few fisherman to tear it down. They want to tear down every dam in America, to bring us closer to a pristine state.
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