Posted on 08/17/2015 1:23:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Gov. Jerry Brown’s plans for massive water tunnels have yet to win approval, but a report shows California already is planning to take up to 300 farms to acquire land for the project.
A 160-page report prepared by state contractors lays out plans to move rapidly to eminent domain to acquire land for two 30-mile-long tunnels.
The tunnels would help ferry water from Northern and Central California to Southern California. …
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He was much less destructive when he was snorting rails off of Linda Rondstadt’s chest.
I wonder if it’s any coincidence that many farmers in the designated area are Republicans?
And how’s that Keystone Pipeline thingy going?
I thought Ethanol was the devil, now I find it is America is an Oligarchy.
It is true. Once I realize it I can sleep better.
Just the rules, I play better when I know the rules.
How curious...not.
Farmers denied water to “save” a non-indigenous minnow, fields lie fallow...farmers going bankrupt and now...
eminent domain to come in and take the farms for pennies on the dollar.
Who didn’t see this coming?
50 years ago, maybe. Not these days!
The Southland is a desert and it was poor planning to have such a huge population there to begin with. He is willing to devastate NorCal and farmland to send water to the rich Hollywood types and all the illegals.(full disclosure, I’m from NorCal).
.... Why not build massive underground cisterns to collect water and prevent evaporation in the more arid regions during the wetter seasons and storms instead of mooching off of other areas?
I thought they needed all those illegals to pick lettuce?
If he tries that now, he’ll die of a massive ovedose.
CC
There probabl are farmers quietly planning to blow up those tunnels. “Eminent domain” means stealing the property of rightful owners by the government. It should not be allowed.
300 family farms are just a start. The Bay Delta Conservation Plan spells this out in their maps that include seizing 175,000 acres of farmland and dispossessing over 40,000 people of their homes, property, and heritage!
See for yourself by looking at the maps here:
http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/Home.aspx
Good point. Don’t need an oil pipeline, but we ABSOLUTELY need a water pipeline to take the water from greedy Oregonian and Washingtonians to send to the people in LA who need it more than we do.
Anybody who thinks that isn’t the goal isn’t paying attention. That’s happening already (has been for 20 years) in the Seattle area. Their water supply infrastructure can’t handle KingCo’s growth. They want to tie Snohomish County’s (Everett, WA’s) water supply system with theirs and the Tolt system.
Everett’s system was built to support the 11 lumber mills the city used to have. They have their own hydroelectric dam, generate their own power, but can’t attract new companies to settle there. Totally run by the unions (80 percent union membership in the area). That means that 80 percent of the people with jobs either belong to a union, or are controlled by a company controlled by a union.
I remember when California was attempting to get water from the Columbia River pumped to them back in the 60’s and 70’s.
You want to lease my land at a fair price, I will listen to the offers. You want to take my land for nothing, we have a problem Houston.
With all the supermarkets around, what the hell do we need farms for?
This season’s version of HBO’s “True Detective” was based upon the corruption of acquiring the land along the hi-speed train corridor.
Does life imitate art or vice versa?
Meanwhile, in private industry...
The state of California should be promoting desalination plants, not attempting to thwart them.
Can you see his hook-up trying to get him his score:
“I need two months production. No, not in two months. I need two months worth of your factory’s production of Peruvian flake. That’s right. Getting it here isn’t my problem! Call the Russians, maybe they are selling the Red October. Yeah, probably something that big, or bigger. The client? He’s having a reunion and wants to live the glory days.”
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