Posted on 06/04/2009 12:48:24 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion
• Salmon, sturgeon being killed by pumping, says new report • ‘Chips away at our ability to provide a reliable water supply for California’
The National Marine Fisheries Service has ruled that the operation of both the federal and state water projects in California are contributing to the possible extinction of salmon, sturgeon, southern resident killer whale, and steelhead.
In a briefing for Congressional offices held earlier Thursday, NMFS announced exports from the Delta would be reduced 330,000 acre feet.
The state has an even grimmer view.
“The new opinion, which could reduce Delta export on average by about 300,000 to 500,000 acre feet, further chips away at our ability to provide a reliable water supply for California,” says Lester Snow, director of the California Department of Water Resources.
The National Marine Fisheries Service calculates that its biological opinion will reduce by 5 percent to 7 percent combined the amount of water state and federal projects will be able to deliver from the Delta to the San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley, Central Coast and Southern California.
DWR’s initial estimates show the average year impacts closer to 10 percent. That is in addition to current pumping restrictions imposed by biological opinions to protect the Delta smelt and other species.
Someone has a piece of land and it rains. Some geese land there and a Government employee reclassifies the land as being "wetlands."
God forbid that we are unable to feed ourselves in this country so that you can go fishing.
“When the Government conrols our food supply, we will all be slaves to the Socialist Ones.
TURN ON THE PUMPS!!
A Revolution is Brewing!”
In 2001, when a few of us tried to warn the rest of America what they had in store, the cry was “Let the water flow!”
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jeffhead.com%2Fklamath%2F&ei=UlMtStSfEZHstAPEsKGhBg&usg=AFQjCNG0riWS6Qugm6A90UxiGaEFWt7UaQ&sig2=cNy6GTh-i0hJBFctB9A2uA
The Stand at Klamath Falls
I remember those days like they were yesterday.
A caravan came through FResno and made a stop at the local Farm Bureau.
I think the enviro-nazis want to put mankind on the extinct list.
TURN ON THE PUMPS
Is tomorrow the day that Ray is going to announce what is planned for the 30th?
I’m wondering if it is going to be a stand at the pumps.
I expect this Government to chisel away until we are all dependent on them. They want power over the citizens. They are not happy with the Executive Branch, they want to be Rulers of the World.
TURN ON THE PUMPS!!!
Let the water flow!!
Food Grows Where Water Flows!!
Turn on the pumps!
Be Ever Vigilant!
I’m sorry that you don’t eat fish or enjoy fishing with your family. However there are people that depend on fishing and farming for their livlihood. Intensive farming practices depending on more and more water is not the way to resolve the issues. The central valley is a desert and so is the L.A. area, Yet that is where the majority of the Delta water goes. The central valley has been farmed for over a hundred years with no problems up till about 10 years ago, when more and more water was needed. Now the farmers and fisherman are crying. And both groups are primarily conservative. It’s all about entitlement sounds like.
First they came for the Klamath farmers, but I was not a Klamath farmer.....
I was at a workshop on the California Water Plan the other day. None of the objectives had any mention of sufficient water for farms. (There were objectives for fish and the environment.) When I brought it up, they stated that the California Dept of Food and Ag was determining what the food supply needed for California’s population would be for the next 20 years and how much water that would entail. They would take that into consideration.
I told them that I was appalled. California produces much of the NATION’s veggies, fruits and nuts.
I guess people will get their food from Mexico in our state leader’s vision of the future. Got garden?
George Miller is foisting the setup for his globalist buddies in the real estate business to get cheap water for the cities they're going to build. This will work just like BART did in the Bay Area. You can bet that the first farmers to feel the heat will be those with a site for a potential insta-city near a station for the "maglev" (massive subsidy #2). The goal is a Central Valley that has a large population but grows no food, a chain of Sustained Developments, each with a transportation/utility jugular that is effectively a gun to the people's heads. Oh but they'll get lots of "Nature" all around them (aka "no man's land"). It'll be paradise! (cough!) All they need is customers. No problemo.
The key fact is that water is more valuable for development than it is for agriculture. As long as that is true the crooks in the "investment" business are going to tweak things against farming. They're "investing" in farming overseas in "places more appropriate for farming (see "comparative advantage" and "free trade"). So they get the trade agreements they want, push those annoying owners off their land, so that they come running to cities, including here, looking to be the customer base for their housing. That they'll subsidize exactly the same way they are doing now using your tax dollars to feed, clothe, educate, and medicate their brainwashed children up to speed, you know, until things are "fair." They'll make better slaves because they already know the score. Americans are too deluded with relic ideas of "freedom" to be quite as useful.
You really didn't think that Democrats like Pat and Jerry were going to let the "wrong people" make money did you? They got the farmers to pony up the cash for the construction of this massive investment subsidy, by teasing them into salivating at a profit in real estate. They got the farmers to pay for the infrastructure and let them hold the bag until the big boys saw the right time. They had to wait until they were finished building out the desert anyway. The recession plus the idiot voters wishing up a passenger train boondoggle presents exactly such an opportunity.
Smelt, smelt, oh no, the smelt are dying... uh, the farmers are still hanging on... Oh steelhead, salmon, oh the humanity!!! (they're more photogenic anyway.) So it goes. I'll bet whoever wrote that biological opinion will end up running a lab.
Hey, you forgot to ping those FReepers who you know will instantly give you a tinfoil hat as they hope your readers will put on (or keep on) blinders to the facts.
The libs in my extended family, even though they know me to be painfully honest, scream that they only want to hear good things about their President. “I thought liberals have an open mind,” I tell them. Two of them, separately, have said “okay, I’d rather keep my head in the sand.” No $h!+.
Why am I telling you? You have run into the same thing on many levels and from many strangers as well as family I bet.
Only for what they want to hear.
bump
That is where his backers' money is.
"Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world."
With Obama's leadership and his worshiping minions entranced and enthralled by his godliness, and the mainstream media under his spell, we are, IMO, bypassing Socialism entirely and careening towards Communism with breathtaking speed.
I am trying to stay positive, but it is difficult.
Waow. Got a source?
The quote is about 2/3 of the way down the page - and, according to the author, it was "famously said" by Henry Kissinger.
Whether he actually said it or not, I don't know.
http://westernfarmpress.com/environment/cline-column-0609/
Water crisis worsens by the day
Jun 9, 2009 10:59 AM, By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Central California Congressman George Radanovich was miffed at being criticized for chastising the federal government for protecting the Delta smelt when he also authored controversial legislation to restore salmon to the San Joaquin River.
Radanovich, an eight-term Republican from Mariposa, Calif., said equating the two issues is like comparing crappie to bass.
Radanovich was part of a parade of politicos at a rally on the banks of the San Luis Reservoir in April, where thousands ended a four-day Walk for Water to protest the government throttling back the Delta pumps to save a minnow (Delta smelt) at the cost of jobs.
The farm workers and farmers left the rally disappointed. All they heard was political rhetoric. They expected action, but left frustrated. It boiled over with farmers and this editor pointing out the inconsistency in Radanovich’s rally rant that the government was more interested in protecting fish than jobs for people, in contradiction of his support for salmon restoration on the river.
“Forget salmon ... I don’t give a rip about salmon,” Congressman Radanovich told me on the phone when he called to set the record straight.
The grape grower/winery owner says he initially authored the river restoration bill with Sen. Diane Feinstein because the 22 water districts in the Friant Water Users Authority had settled an 18-year legal battle with radical environmentalists to restore salmon in the river.
It was either settle or let a judge decide how much water went to salmon. The judge told the farmers they did not want him to decide because they would likely get little or nothing if he did.
“The judge had his hands on the faucet and everyone agreed that was not a reasonable alternative,” says Radanovich. When the water districts and environmentalists settled, Radanovich drafted legislation to fund river restoration.
“The San Joaquin restoration is not an Endangered Species Act (ESA) situation like the Delta smelt. It is a state issue dating back to the law passed in 1930 creating Friant Dam and Millerton Lake,” said Radanovich. “The issue was not going beyond state court. There would be no appeal to the supreme court of the judge’s ruling if he was left to make the final decision.”
Basically, Radanovich said farmers cut the best deal they could.
In the wake of the frustration from the water march and rally, Radanovich has ratcheted up his political muscle to resolve the smelt issue. He acknowledged the water march brought the West Side water issue to “everyone’s attention” but that was about it. He says it is going to take a major overhaul of the ESA, but believes with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats running the House, the chances of that are slim to none. “But that does not mean we are not going to still try.”
Radanovich repeats the obvious when he says two of the best solutions to California’s water crisis are construction of the peripheral canal, which would carry water more efficiently through the Delta, and Temperance Flat Dam above Millerton Lake in Radanovich’s district.
“It will take a long time to get there with those two projects,” says Radanovich. “We need water now to save jobs and farms.”
Radanovich says there are interim solutions. One is called Two Gates; a project the Central Valley congressman says is “shovel-ready.” It is a $25 million barrier that would keep smelt safe from the pumps. It has been permitted and once approved for funding, could be completed in as quickly as 90 days.
Radanovich said Two Gates would boost water deliveries to West Side farmers to 45 percent of normal from the current 10 percent. It could save 45,000 jobs in the San Joaquin Valley. He says it has the support of powerful California Congressman George Miller and “some” environmental groups.
Two Gates was submitted to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for funding under the American Recovery and Re-investment Act. It was not included in the final list of projects. However, Radanovich believes there is an 80 percent chance he can still get it funded.
Radanovich has been an ally to agriculture since his first day in office. He is one of us, yet he was ensnarled in the California water crisis with the backlash from his comments at the water walk rally.
The criticism of the Valley Congressman may not have not been justified. However, it was a symptom that the crisis is growing worse and more infuriating each day.
Let the record show that the good Congressman's IQ is hovering somewhere just above 70.
If only there were good and right minded people in government that would let the natural forces of nature and free markets and our country's founding principles rule with the force of law, rather than pretended altruism and sophistry...
That quote is also on this page as an unsourced quote: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Henry_Kissinger
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