Posted on 10/03/2023 12:52:52 AM PDT by AirForceVet1988
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said Monday that her administration would effectively kick a Saudi-owned alfalfa farm off a critical stretch of state land, a forceful step that speaks to the firestorm of controversy over foreign extraction of natural resources as well as deepening dilemmas over water scarcity as climate change dries out the West.
The move will prevent the Saudi-owned company, Fondomonte Arizona, from pumping groundwater that could one day serve as backup for booming urban areas. Currently, the company uses the water to grow alfalfa to feed the kingdom’s dairy cows.
Fondomonte came under fierce bipartisan criticism on the campaign trail last year, and Hobbs, a Democrat who took office in January, has been under pressure to act. In a statement, she said the state land department had terminated one lease held by the company and decided not to renew three other leases when they expire in February. The leases cover about 3,500 acres of desert terrain west of Phoenix, in an area called the Butler Valley.
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I am not sure there isn’t an alternative motive for Hobbs, but i am glad she is doing it. Now kick the F-ing Chinese out!
Since the country has gone mad, I cannot remember any democrat doing anything that would benefit the people of this country. There must be something in this action that benefits her or her family. These people are never constitutionally motivated.
US companies have invested heavily in farmland across the world... yet we are now aghast that other countries are doing the same
Fetterman recently brought this up for Chinese owned farmlands, now Katie Hobbs does it for Suadi leased farmlands. Maybe Chuck Schumer can go off on a tangent on Bill Gates owning millions of acres of farmland?
Whatever this is, it’s probably only coincidental that it might benefit America in any way, shape, or form. They probably want that land to house illegal aliens, since they need to do something with them, and they need more places than just federal land out west to settle them. Or, the remote possibility it’s some kind of shake down.
as well as deepening dilemmas over water scarcity as climate change dries out the West.
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As far as I could read.
Arizona…climate change.
I remember, as a child in the 80’s, spending days on end frolicking through the lush vegetation of the Arizona forests.
I didn’t know she was back.
EC
Good.
It’s time someone pushed back on foreign interests owning land in America.
“as climate change dries out the West”
indeed ... states like arizona, new mexico, nevada, colorado and wyoming were never arid before “climate change” came along recently and changed everything ...
THEY do NOT OWN the farm if they are leasing the land——THEY ARE RUNNING A FARM ON LEASED LAND.
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