Posted on 09/02/2009 2:23:07 PM PDT by Avoiding_Sulla
California has a new endangered species on its hands in the San Joaquin Valley—farmers. Thanks to environmental regulations designed to protect the likes of the three-inch long delta smelt, one of America's premier agricultural regions is suffering in a drought made worse by federal regulations.
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Let’s keep in mind the people of the “Inland Empire” tend to be staunchly conservative.
Perhaps the idea is to starve them out and force them to sell out and pack their jalopies and hit the road, a la “Grapes of Wrath”?
Oh, if I could only tell you what I have in store for this country articulating those very principles!!! It'll be about a week, so stay tuned.
Oh, I agree, the smelt have survived this long and there certainly didn’t seem to be any urgent reason to stop it now; I simply meant that they weren’t being preserved because they were considered rare or endangered, but because they actually served a purpose. However, everything involving water use and fishing policies for the last few years has been in a state of turmoil, with waters being closed, opened, closed to one group, closed for one thing, etc. in a way that makes every fishing season an experiment in chaos.
I think the ultimate purpose of that nonsense is the ecofreak desire to eliminate fishing altogether, and I also think that the purpose behind this water restriction is to crush the commercial food industry, a project that would bring great joy to both the ecofreaks and our Marxist president. If it were just about water, they would be building desalination plants. But it’s not just about the fish and it’s not just about the water.
I want to go back to the time when green was just a color.
The best part?
The head of the enviro organization which sued California farmers and the water irrigation districts which they belonged to is the first cousin of Maria Shriver Schwartzenegger. Pretty sure it was Bobby kennedy Jr. For sure it was a Kennedy. Cannot remember the right name of the enviro group at this moment.
Nothing like a hard stab in the back from your own family.
If it were just a matter of water, they’d be building desalination plants yesterday off the coast of CA. But it’s not really that...””
Marin County, north of San Fran is considering just exactly that.
Even if they do so, the farmers won’t get a drop.
This is a fight over the “Delta Smelt”, a minnow sized creature, which has no commercial value.
Instead, farmers are losing millions, and the income from those farmers is gone.
California gets more stupid every day. They should have launced a serious defense against those enviros.
The water cutoff is likely to be a real estate scam, similar to those in every other recession I can remember”
The thousands of houses that COULD be built on all those 2 million acres would use many, many more times the water of the farmers....no contest.
Ahnold claims he doesn’t have the authority to turn the pumps.....
AHNOLD! Ever hear of the Constitution? you may want to read some of those Ammendments! Just start with the first TEN!
morons and spineless chicken chits elected as governors.....or else they are in on the chaos..one or the other...
The judge was appointed by Bush but his hands were tied by the Endangered Species Act.
Simply not true. By the time one considers the real estate that gets PAVED, or buried under construction, water goes much farther. In California, agriculture consumes 80% of the water used by people.
The Governor has access to a national guard...just take your property back and turn on the water. You don’t have to put up with this crap.
Now I’m no genius, but isn’t it possible to install some kind of screen to avoid sucking the fish into the pumps? Can’t these things swim upstream? Something’s really gone haywire here. I think there is a need to sacrifice a few of these eco-nuts to the water god or something. Also... why doesn’t Schwartzenneger just order the pumps turned on in defiance of the Feds? Believe me, he’d have plenty of support from the rest of the country. Let them try to jail him; I don’t think they’d get past the CHP or his security detail.
because he’s a Schwarzenkennedy first — and ecofreak extradinaire Robert Kennedy Jr, his EcoCzar, is happy with this outcome.
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