Posted on 02/27/2002 1:23:05 PM PST by Jeff Head
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:32:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Federal Bureau of Reclamation announced Wednesday that beleaguered farmers in Klamath Falls, Ore., will be receiving water this year in time for the 2002 planting season, which officially begins next month.
Speaking to reporters in Washington, John Keys, the head of the Reclamation Bureau, said the move will not guarantee enough water for the farmers. But if current weather patterns and water levels hold it should be plenty, he said.
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THE WATER WILL FLOW
and soon. Ultimately the BOR and government must be out of the picture as respects water allocation from the irrigation waters IMHO, according to the original terms of the contractual agreement.
The farmers own that irrigation water.
Then the government has got to get out of the picture. Those people can not live like this. Of course that is the whole idea of those trying to shut off the water, to drive these farmers off the land.
Well done, my friend.
Then did everything I could to help keep thier fight going thereafter.
I pray they will get water this year ... enough to have a bountiful harvest. There are tens of thosuands of real prayers ascending to heaven for exactly that outcome and, in the end, HE is in charge.
Then I pray we can get the real resolution which is to get the project works turned over to the farmers as it was orignally planned.
Those prayers, along with the committed efforts to turn them into reality, is what is making the difference IMHO.
I want to express my personal appreciation to you for all that you have done in this matter.
If it wasn't for you, I, and perhaps most of us in FR would never know nor understand all that was at stake and the involvement of the government in trying to destroy the lives of many human beings.
Thank you.
With this many Good People working together, maybe God will smile on them this year with enough rain for a good growing season.
Thank You for the update Jeff.
It is at that, but I am told by people I know and trust that Keys is in fact a friend to these farmers and will do all he can to help them.
They are getting water this year, now we have to fix the root problem IMHO.
Semper Fi!
Is this pretty much the deal you are talking about today, Jeff?
The principle of "rights" has not been settled.
That the feds are "permitting" the water that the farmers own by contract to flow again is not a win, but only a stay of execution.
There is much more work to be done. And with FReeper help, it will be done.
I am glad for the victory of the land owners but pray that none will lose their land because of the set-back. Only in a free country do citizens own and control their land; all others are slaves.
It bothers me that the bureaucrats are still apparently putting the fish first...y'know what I mean, Vern?
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