Posted on 03/23/2007 12:56:48 PM PDT by SmithL
The decision by Judge Frank Roesch of Alameda County Superior Court gives the state Department of Water Resources 60 days to get the necessary permission from wildlife officials. Granting permission could, in turn, require massive efforts to increase salmon and smelt populations elsewhere.
Many environmentalists blame the exporting of Northern California water for causing sharp declines in the number of some fish species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The pumps operated by the state are located near Tracy and send water to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California.
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The environmental wack jobs that pursue these lawsuits pretty much appear to be anti-human. They consider their own race to be a plague on the earth.
secede?
Fair enough....I haven't much sympathy for people who build a city on a hill in Earthquake territory...let them pay their own reconstruction bills after the next major shaker...
I haven't much sympathy for people who have property around the river delta...let them pay ALL the money to rebuild the levy system....
I haven't much sympathy for...(fill in your own instance of Northern Cal leaching tax dollars from Southern Cal)...
I suspect that if Southern California is suddenly deprived of water, that this judge may find himself drinking some ocean water.
From a tugboat, on the river going slow A cement bag is dropping on down You know that cement is for the weight dear You can make a large bet Mackie's back in town
We'll see who cries uncle first.
Um...we live next to an ocean....desalinization is the wave of the future....
You can't pull money out of the ocean though, and the Northern California Socialist's toilet will dry up and die very quickly without subsidies from the south....
Sounds like a deal to me---YOU'RE ON!
Northern California has a perfectly fine tax base thanks. We'll continue to do great.
What percent subsidy do your statistics say S. Cal supports the north? .001% or so? What % of S. Cals water comes from the good parts of the state? 50% or so?
"Dear Abby" said that once in defense of abortion vs. protecting the whales (or some such species). Really!
Um, no, it's called the Colorado River...
They should have built the Peripheral Canal years ago.
Taking water from Northern California and sending it south.
Instead, we pump it out of the delta.
First big earthquake, and the delta is going to turn to milkshake from collapsed levees..
Farming? There's farming in the Central Valley??? Where's that?
(Just joking, I live in Sanger. But So Cal and No Cal don't want to acknowledge the source of common sense in the state. When I told my colleagues in Orange County I was moving to Fresno, they said, "Where's that? By the Bay Area?")
There is no way on earth that will happen.
Northern Cal has been paying attention to what LA does to its water sources.
Summer water here is all spoken for. No more for LA.
If they want more water they will just have to pump it during the winter and find a place to store it.
There may not be an appreciation of the "salmon people." To them, there is nothing more important than salmon - not humans, communities, electricity, farms, lumber or minerals. I live in a county where what is left of the economy is based on agriculture, tourism and timber (plywood.) There is little other industry except for water bottling plants. You would think I was evil incarnate if I dared utter that to our county, salmon is a secondary concern. The Water Quality Board can't even grasp why we would want to expend our very limited Road Dept. money on public safety where people actually live than out on some landslide or erosive bank in a salmon channel in the hinterlands. Salmon people have no perspective or awareness that there could be other priorities. It's nuts.
We may finally be reaching the critical point in our history where the environmentalits' opposition to nuclear power can finally be seen as counterproductive. The left in this country mindlessly oppose just about everything, like nuclear power, wind power, hydropower, offshore drilling, drilling in ANWR, fighting wars for oil, big business, farming, fishing, freeways, you name it, liberals are against it.
Yet, they drive their Volvos to the Starbucks Drivethrough for a cup of coffee, letting the engine run the whole time, then drive to the gas station and buy gas from Saudi Arabia, and water their lawns with water piped from the river they didn't want to build a dam on. When the water gets cut off, and they can't water their lawn, and they have to pay a Fresh Water Surcharge at Starbucks, and the price of bottled water goes through the roof, maybe those in the middle that the libs depend on for their voting power will see that liberals are big babies, and they are holding us back.
Oh great. Damn if you do and damn if you don't...
WHAT ever! :)
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