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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Just another spineless Judge...
Another brain-dead Federal judge who obviously has a basement full of EVIAN.
It doesn't matter, just think how small their carbon footprint will be in a few years. Al Gore Rules!
The judge didi it for the halibut. now, Californians are left floundering for a sole-ution........
The judge's head should be stuck high up on a pike for doing this. The question is why do we cod-dle these liberal judges bent on ruining our way of life. Something smelts very bad here. Like rotten fish.
Judge Frank Roesch of Alameda County Superior Court
Whoa, hold on there! Did you get that question cleared by the California Politically Correct Science Department before you thought it?
You're going to bring the Independent Thought Police raining down on us, dude!
Naaah, Phoenix does a good job of that all by itself.
Google "Central Arizona Project" for more info.
Cheers!
Too bad. California has taken far more than its share of Colorado river water for years. The other states with water rights have grown and are drawing their share. California was ordered to reduce the amount of Colorado river water almost 5 years ago. The principal problem is that the estimates of available water were made at a time when the Colorado was at a very high historical flow rate. It's not that way anymore. Lake Mead is significantly lower than in the past.
California really needs to build some nuke power plants and run sea water desalinization plants if they hope to keep operating a civilization in the desert.
"Um...so what am I supposed to drink? Ocean water?"
Have you considered becoming more multi-culturally oriented? Make like a Zulu and bleed your cattle for food and drink.
Got no cattle, you say? Where are the herds of cattle in urban Kalifornia, you ask?
Consider Liberals to be the new, urban cattle. Better stock up on arm length rubber gloves, and don't forget to have 'em pasteurized after you dress and clean 'em.
Liberals! They taste just like chicken ('cause they behave like chickens).
Ok. We'll start drilling right away! As soon as enviro-wacko's let us!
Delta smelt smell similar to smelling like a cucumber smell.
Fish politics in Kalifornia have NOTHING to do with proof or logic. Logging has been severely curtailed south of the Bay because of endangered fish. The fish were put there by white sportsmen in the early 1900's. There is no archaeological proof in the record that they ever lived there naturally.For once I am glad to see the door swinging to hit all of the envior nuts in So. Cal.
San Diego and L.A. are gonna rue the day this envirowhacko judge took the bench.
"There'll be imminent ruage. Imminent ruage."
--Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Twister"
Read something else other than the rhetorical puke put out by the Wallace Stegner/Limosine Liberal GovernMental/EnvironMental Born Again Pagan priesthood!!!
I spose you believe that nuclear power is too risky and expensive for CA and that oil is just as toxic to the universe as plutonium. Stop buying these worn out old platitudes and attitudes and develope your own critical thinking!
Being against the peripheral canal and the Bureau of Reclamation (the "Hydraulic Brotherhood), puts you right in the camp of Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, James Earl Carter and the two stooges I mentioned above!!! C'mon!!! Snap out of it!!!
This deal here with this dumb judge is just more of the same stupid "Affirmative action for fish and plants and welfare for wildlife!" (SierraWasp!!!) It's stopped being funny when right on this very thread I see how the insipid non-logic of Wallace Stegner and Marc Riesner have pervaded the psyche of so many otherwise brilliant Americans.
It's not funny anymore. It's getting frightening!!!
I agree, SW. Even in the best case scenarios, where we react to a crazy liberal proposal, we're willing to accept a 98% victory.
They keep doing it.
You don't have to do that 50 times before there's nothing worth defending.
Fantastic! You're one of the few that sees it my way!!!
"It's the salt water intrusion into the delta that causes the most problems.
The southern Californians want to dig a canal around the delta so they can suck unlimited water from further up steam.
Northern Californians having watched what happened to the Owens valley say 'Not a chance in hell, pave over your lawns!'
At the end of the day you can caste this as enviro kook vs. S. Cal but it's not.
It's fisherman vs. farmer, with all of Northern Cal basically saying, 'No more summer water available hear, move along.'"
You are right on the money.
Why should the folks in the north tolerate the LA area wackos destroying their environment to create an artificial oasis in what was and what will again be a desert?
Its time for the south to look at and practice what has been done to save water in places like Tucson.
The San Joachin farmers have already made their river run backwards. Why should they be allowed to do the same to the rivers of the north?
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