Posted on 04/30/2008 10:10:29 PM PDT by PeterFinn
I am posting this important and breaking news ahead of Sacramento TV stations and The Sacramento Bee. The California Resources Agency this evening in Clarksburg, California held a meeting in which they presented their plans to "save" the vital agricultural heartland of California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region. Option four of the presentation (which can be found here: http://baydeltaoffice.water.ca.gov/sdb/bdcp/bdcp_draft_scoping_meeting.pdf ) includes a PERIPHERAL CANAL starting south of Freeport in Scribner Bend and following the exact route of the proposed 1982 Peripheral Canal to the pumping stations of Clifton Court Forebay.
But that's not all. Option four as presented this evening also includes "restoring" virtually all of the California Delta farmland to 'wetlands' and 'habitat'. The towns of Clarksburg, Courtland, Locke, Walnut Grove, and Isleton would be subjected to seasonal flooding in order to effect 'habitat restoration'.
All of this is really about throwing a bone to the environmentalists at the costs of several hundred thousand acres of farmland and the ending of a way of life for thousands of people. All of this in order to create an excuse to push through a Peripheral Canal to send more water to Southern California.
There was media coverage at the event in Clarksburg tonight so hopefully it will be in the news and there will be proper articles to link to and discuss. But the time to get the info out on this is NOW.
I have more documents I'll be posting on Google tomorrow and I'll provide links to them as soon as I can. Thank you.
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Peripheral Canal is probably cheaper than fixing all those levies...
Remember the words of a Presidential hopeful:
“We will take from you for the greater good of others.”
Seems that sentiment is alive and well in your area.
“Option four as presented this evening also includes “restoring” virtually all of the California Delta farmland to ‘wetlands’ and ‘habitat’. The towns of Clarksburg, Courtland, Locke, Walnut Grove, and Isleton would be subjected to seasonal flooding in order to effect ‘habitat restoration’.”
This (Option four) does not appear to be an intelligent piece of legislation. One might guess California’s Legislature is somewhat lacking of common sense to even propose this.
It will be interesting to read all the options presented.
Are you series? Surely you jest! This is hugh!! They're just having a "Wetlands" dream!!! (snort!)
Where’s the godless Gubernator Arnoiled Wilsonnegger, the world’s biggest political hermaphrodite, on this? (he asks rhetorically)
Who cares what RINOld’s position is on this issue...or any issue!
I’m ready for another recall... how ‘bout you?
We could/should be building nuclear cogenerating electrical/desalination plants off the coast of CA that that would give us all the electricity & water we will ever need...all we need is some LEADERSHIP in Sacramento!
Farmers generate about $59 billion in personal income for Californians, or 6.6% of the state's total annual personal income.
Agriculture supports 1.1 million jobs in California, accounting for about 7.4% of all employment.
Fresh and processed fruits, treenuts and vegetables have the greatest impact of any commodity group, leading to $30 billion in personal income and 567,000 jobs.
Animal products account for $11 billion in personal income and 214,000 jobs.
Food and feed grains account for $10 billion in personal income and 192,000 jobs.
Agriculture is especially significant to the economy of California's Central Valley where it accounts for 21% of all income and 25% of all employment.
We do not need this canal to protect the delta, Los Angeles wants the canal so they can replace the water they're anticipating losing from the Colorado River as water contracts are renogotiated.
It’s not a pipe dream. Several hundred people were told last night that this is dead serious.
That's a very old and very simplistic argument. Water these days, like money is fungible. The more we have and the easier it is to move around, the cheaper and more available it is for everyone. Of course Los Angeles wants and needs more water. They will get it one way or another. There is one water market in California and availability and cost affect our critical agricultural industry. California has growing water needs and the peripheral canal will solve much of that.
So to hell with the people whose families have farmed the delta for 150 years - LA wants water, is that right?
Where ever he is, my guess is that he is on the wrong side of this just like other issues.
The time was that lower California needed to pull in fresh water from the north. With recent developments in desalinization, I think it’s time for Southern California to launch an effort to obtain fresh water from the ocean.
I don’t honestly know if it is reasonable for it to get all it’s water from the ocean, I would tend to doubt it, but it could sure ease the situation. SoCal needs to become more responsible for it’s own fate.
I do not favor altering the farming practices mid-state for SoCal’s benefit at this point. If SoCal has a major problem, then let the idiots who think it should be the home of millions of illegal immigratns, donate their water to quench the illegal’s thirst.
No. The Delta plan is the enviro whackos idea. I am opposed to that.
They just announced a “poll” on Sacramento TV this morning that Schwartzenfrauder is in like flynn with 58%!!! You gonna git to another Recall with polling like that? The idiots in this state are suffering with terminal GANG-GREEN!!!
Yep! Where water flows, the economy grows!!! Build Auburn Dam!!!
What's that? The last I heard, it took about as much electricity to do that as it took to separate water from oxygen to make hydrogen, or to make alumininum!!!
And that takes a heck of a lot of electricity that can only come from night production from enough nuclear plants when all other needs are lower!!! (then more hydro for peak production needs)(like from a hydro electric Auburn Dam)(which could also flush out the salt water in the delta created by the peripheral canal that Peter worries about)
And the proponents of the PC added the proposed massive new swampland (a protected mosquito habitat, I'm sure) to please the enviro-whackos. And the total detail of this makes the whole thing California's largest engineering project of the past forty years.
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