and they're gonna have a dozen hydropower plants hooked up to this fiasco too, right?what'd ya mean no...
Posted on 06/28/2017 6:51:54 AM PDT by Lorianne
U.S. wildlife officials gave crucial first approval Monday to California Gov. Jerry Brown's decades-old ambitions to build two massive tunnels that would re-engineer the water system in the nation's most populous state.
The National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the $16 billion project likely will not endanger more than a dozen federally protected species in the largest fresh-water estuary on the West Coast.
The decision is the first in a series of federal and state rulings that will determine the fate of the twin 35-mile (55-kilometer) tunnels, California's biggest water project in decades that is expected to take more than 10 years to complete.
The project would suck part of the Sacramento River into two four-story-high tunnels running below the river's delta with the San Joaquin River.
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Enviros have opposed this most strenuously from Day One. They will continue to oppose it
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Let’s see HOW much, now that Moonbeam got the green light to (possibly) extinct up to 12 species of...whatever ;)
I suspect, like Code Pink and WoW, since it’s their side, the opposition will be minimal to none.
$16 billion will pay for 20-25 desalination plants like the one we have here in San Diego. Our plant in Carlsbad provides for a little less than 1/10th of our water at about twice the prices. These numbers will get better over time.
I did an analysis once. 150 desalination plants could provide for all of the state’s drinking water, permanently, for homes and businesses. That includes lawn watering, etc. Spending the money on desalination plants would mean no more reservoirs, no more tunnels, no more farms going without water because of bait fish.
Maybe I’ll try and submit it to the SacBee for publication.
No, the CA enviros continue to beef on all occasions and at every opportunity. They make gubner moonbeam appear marginally rational.
You are misreading a poorly written sentence. What was meant is that there are more than a dozen federally protected species that might be affected, and that the project likely will not endanger any of them.
Dam. Just dam.
What could go wrong?
Imagine the possibilities.
You're probably right - especially the 'poorly written' part.
It would also castrate watermelon environmentalists of their ability to plant their seeds of dominion.
They won’t turn over that power willingly.
Etc..
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Environmentalists+oppose+desalination
All you have to do is look at windmills and bald eagles. Case closed.
Meanwhile they literally stopped water being delivered to the central valley where a large majority of vegetables and other crops are grown for the whole country. For a minnow that is not endangered.
Think Chinatown but instead of water the insiders want the land.
and they're gonna have a dozen hydropower plants hooked up to this fiasco too, right?what'd ya mean no...
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