Posted on 07/25/2009 10:45:29 PM PDT by Entrepreneur
San Joaquin Valley farms are laying off workers and letting fields lie fallow as their water ration falls.
Reporting from Mendota, Calif. -- Water built the semi-arid San Joaquin Valley into an agricultural powerhouse. Drought and irrigation battles now threaten to turn huge swaths of it into a dust bowl.
Farmers have idled half a million acres of once-productive ground and are laying off legions of farmhands. That's sending joblessness soaring in a region already plagued by chronic poverty.
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This year has been even drier after a federal court ordered that pumps moving water through the system be turned down to protect endangered species including delta smelt, salmon and green sturgeon. The pumps can reverse the water flow and trap salmon in the river, pulverize fish or ensnare them on screens, said Maria Rea, supervisor of the Sacramento office of the National Marine Fisheries Service.
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What do you mean, they won’t even give his name? We have a secret judge that made this ruling?! I didn’t even know that was legal!
and then there’s this:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/158674-The-US-has-no-remaining-grain-reserves
(from the article linked earlier in the thread)
As many ways as the UN communists can dream up - control water and food and you control the population.
POS “reporter” just had to blame it one “climate change”: “But climate change is intensifying competition for this resource and may well force changes in the way the valley has been farmed for decades.”
What a moron.
Congress didn’t do this. A Federal Judge did it. Credit where credit is due.
It would not hurt if a few families, that lost their homes, filed for damages for national forest that burned because the Forest service and BLM could not clear brush. Make the Sierra Club pay and pay in court costs.
I guess it isn't easy, being green.
Yes, they are. The UFW has stated they will not join the fight for water because they do not wish to appear to aiding “white growers.” Yes, they are that blunt. But of course, there are declarations of “emergency” that make the area eligible for “assistance” (handouts) that the democrats will take the credit for.
Rands great quote of the only way to rule men is to make them criminals is being supplemented by also making them dependent. A man dependent on the government or a party is not going to rock the boat.
Why would they then stop with those west of the Rockies??? I wonder!!!
Probably because thirty or so years ago when it was stated they were a reasonably small California organization.
Gee! I came here in 1964 and they were a pretty big Item here already at that time as I recall. They had already nearly stopped the development of Lake Powell, New Melones Reservoir and Oroville dam that Reagan dedicated in about 1968, or ‘70.
I remember when in 1955 they amounted to 80 jet set ski bums that only wanted to secure their cross country ski rights in the Sierras, I knew one of them personally.
In later years they were taken over by the environmentalists and became the horrible monster they are today.
Just wait until people start seeing how much food prices will rise because the supply isn’t what it should be. This should just about collide with the inflation that is coming.
Some of those farms cannot recover quickly even if the water is turned back on. This just hurts the country even further. Why cannot the judges see this?
This is going to be a disaster that will have long-term repercussions.
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