California governor warns water plan controversial

SFGate: Capitol Notebook ^ | 5/5/12 | Marisa Lagos, Wyatt Buchanan

[SmithL]

Gov. Jerry Brown warned this week that his administration's soon-to-be unveiled plan to tackle the state's water delivery challenges is "going to be controversial" but vowed he would "push it through."

Saying that state leaders have failed for five decades to ensure water reliability in the Golden State, Brown told a group of about 900 business leaders in San Jose Thursday that his administration would soon announce its preferred plan - widely expected to be two giant pipelines that move water out of the Sacramento River and under the fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to the Bay Area, Central Valley and Southern California.

In a speech peppered with references to his first two terms as governor 30 years ago, Brown said that the water issue "has been kicking around for 50 years" and that his father, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, started working on it in the 1960s.

"One piece in the delta, it's crucial," he said. "If those levees ... break in an earthquake, you can cut off water to Santa Clara (Valley), just like that. We have to ensure water reliability, and I will unveil a program people have been working on for several years."

Later, he told reporters that details would emerge when his administration releases a "massive" draft environmental impact report "soon."

[BenLurkin]

BOHICA

[pepsionice]

I can see lots of trouble here. Building a huge piping system....to cross the state...across the fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to the Bay Area...hauling water.

My belief is that the President shouldn’t approve it...until after the election.

/sarcasm off

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Gov. Jerry Brown warned this week that his administration's soon-to-be unveiled plan to tackle the state's water delivery challenges is "going to be controversial" but vowed he would "push it through."

TRANSLATION: "The big-government/big-corporate criminal complex uber alles."

[hattend]

The Delta is “fragile” so they are going to come in and dig it up to put pipes in.

Wow...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SmithL.

Gov. Jerry Brown warned this week that his administration's soon-to-be unveiled plan to tackle the state's water delivery challenges is "going to be controversial" but vowed he would "push it through." ...widely expected to be two giant pipelines that move water out of the Sacramento River and under the fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to the Bay Area, Central Valley and Southern California.

[MasterGunner01]

Now, Governor, just shutoff the water to all that yucky farm land and divert it to all the population centers on the coast. California doesn’t need those dirty, smelly farmers anyway. It need more erudite, arrogant, perfumed intellectuals and illegal aliens in the cities of Southern CA to prosper — you know — the parasites that vote for Donkeys who have destroyed a once great state.

[Brilliant]

They need desalinization.

[Lancey Howard]

Good luck with your enviro-communists, Brown, you sick scumbag.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks.

[Carry_Okie]

This will be a bigger stock bubble than the bullet train.

The very idea of digging water tunnels through miles of peat formations in an earthquake zone is so far beyond stupid that only Jerry Brown could endorse it.

[Joshua Marcus]

...a “massive” draft enviromental impact report “soon.” Now that’s funny-—not really-—seeing as this “massive”(lots and lots of money massive) study means in liberal Sacremento speak: years of lawsuits; the EPA breathing down the states throats, property rights being treatened, protesters being trodded out by the media as saints for the planet even if there happens to be a sprinkling of communists, marxist, anarchist and the like(the media will help to cover up the lie that these people don’t represent the movement)-—not that the commies care. That state is in such disarray that nothing short of a 10.5 earthquake could shake these idiots’ noggins together to wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee, even that scenario is unlikely since half the people living there wouldn’t even understand the evacuation orders, and the stoners and OWSers (another 25%) should blame Bush and the evil capitalist for this act of God, while their brain soaked intoxicatetion fails them as building debris land on them; throw in a republican, and a conservative christian for good measure. More like a pipe dream, and the daydreamers who voted for this complete incompetent Brown guy will get a rude awakening come 2013, that is, if O loses, and the money spigot dries up.