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Environmentalist Obama Says: No Water For You!

Mike

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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Without a lot more rain and snow, many California farmers caught in the state’s drought can expect to receive no irrigation water this year from a vast system of rivers, canals and reservoirs interlacing the state, federal officials announced Friday.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released its first outlook of the year, saying that the agency will continue to monitor rain and snow fall, but the grim levels so far prove that the state is in the throes of one of its driest periods in recorded history.

Farmers who rely on the federally run Central Valley Project received only 20 percent of their normal water allotment last year and were expecting this year’s bad news. Some communities and endangered wildlife that rely on the federal water source will also suffer deep cuts. LINK


Lack of water is not the only reason for the California farmers’ plight. Here is a excerpt from a just published article by Capital Press:

Environmental interests, part of the president’s base, litigate any and all attempts to reduce allocations for endangered species. Obama has signaled his call for compromise doesn’t extend to changes in environmental policy.

Earlier in the week the White House said Obama would veto a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would relax environmental protections for the endangered fish and provide more water for farmers.

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And you want to know what a byproduct of the federal government’s continued stranglehold on California’s water supply is? Billions of dollars of produce crops will shift from California to places in Mexico and Central and South America. Once again, Barack Obama is purposely reducing jobs in the United States in favor of jobs for other nations abroad.

Just another push toward the looming ledge of economic insolvency.
 

Steve

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the liberal actions of flushing water downstream for a common as much delta smelt will have some real unintended consequences ..

California Almond Farmers Face Tough Choices

With California's agricultural heartland entrenched in drought, almond farmers are letting orchards dry up and in some cases making the tough call to have their trees torn out of the ground, leaving behind empty fields.

There are no figures yet available to show an exact number of orchards being removed, but the economic stakes and risks facing growers are clear. Almonds and other nuts are among the most high-value crops in the Central Valley — the biggest producer of such crops in the country. In 2012, California's almond crop had an annual value of $5 billion. This year farmers say the dry conditions are forcing them to make difficult decisions.

William Bourdeau, executive vice president of Harris Farms in Coalinga, said he and his colleagues within the next 30 days will have to confront the hard decision about scaling back their almond orchards. They've already decided not to plant 9,000 acres of vegetables — including 3,000 acres of lettuce that would have produced 72 million heads and generated 700,000 hours of work.

In California's Central Valley, Barry Baker is one of many who hired a crew that brought in large rumbling equipment to perform the grim task in a cloud of dust.

A tractor operator drove heavy steel shanks into the ground to loosen the roots and knock the trees over. Another operator, driving a brush loader equipped with a fork-like implement on the front, scooped up the trees and root balls and pushed them into a pile, where an excavator driver grabbed them up in clusters with a clawing grapple. The trees were fed into a grinder that spit wood chips into piles to be hauled away by the truckload and burned as fuel in a power plant.

lets see.. trees sequester carbon.. and burning releases carbon.. .

on top of that,.. almonds are a great food source..

now what will liberals put on their wilted salads ..
 

mrj

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Those liberals deserve to acquire a taste for 'woodchip salads' topped with a dressing of sour grapes and alkali (that white powder which forms at the edge of drying up bodies of water on alkaline soils). We see that during droughts in SD, and other drought prone places. It burns the skin, so a little goes a long way on a salad!!!!

Wonder if all the political devastation can be stopped before Obama and his henchmen achieve their destruction of this country????

mrj
 

Steve

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The Delta smelt is a 3-inch fish, now at the center of a political power struggle between environmentalists and farmers.

"It's about the biggest water grab in history and running people out of water to protect this little fish," said U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, a Republican from Visalia.

It's a fight over fish versus farms from the halls of Congress to the California Delta.

"We have put fish, we have put the environment, above people, and we need to reevaluate that," said Paul Wenger, president of the California Farm Bureau.

Scientists are trying to figure out how to protect the Delta smelt, an endangered fish, without harming California agriculture.

For the next week, fish and wildlife experts will be doing their special survey of the Delta smelt population, to see if those tiny little fish are being drawn into giant water pumps near Tracy.

At full throttle, those pumps are like magnets for the Delta smelt, grinding them into fish bait.

"They could move very quickly towards the pumps," said Steve Martarano, a spokesman with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Read more: http://www.kcra.com/news/battle-brewing-over-calfiornias-delta-smelt/24474942#ixzz2uLqTDN00

A decision to turn off the pumps can save the fish but cut off water deliveries to central and southern California farmers.

That hasn't happen yet this year because of the drought, but California's economy and environment are waiting on big findings involving a tiny, little fish.

just another reason to doubt the theory of evolution.. how could a fish that swims through a pump turning itself into chum be smart enough to last all this time?
 

Tam

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One more step in the Obama agenda to weaken the US and lower it's standard of living to third world status. :roll:

He refuses the pipeline that will provide a friendly source of energy. He shuts down the permits for drilling on Federal land and shuts down Off Shore drilling and invests in Brazil's off shore drilling telling them the US will be their largest customer.

He refuses to release water to safe the California farmers and their crops and requests use of other food sources be used to make ethanol to replace the oil he is not willing to pump out of the ground. So the US becomes dependent on foreign countries for more of their food.

He punishes corporations through the tax system if they don't proving healthcare to the point they down size the US work force and ship jobs oversees, Putting MILLIONS more on the government dole. He raises the minimum wage that the CBO claims will kill 500,000 more jobs. and when nobody can afford to go out to eat even more jobs will be lost with more people looking for DEMOCRAT FREE STUFF.

The US already has a National Debt of more than 17 trillion thanks to countries like China lending the US all the funds they can spend. Just how long can this totally stupid Obama/ Democrat economic policy go on before the US becomes a third world country with starving children, the elderly living for hand outs and the middle class is turning over 100% of their incomes to fund King Obama's way of life? Will the voters realize it and restore some kind of sanity before it is too D*mn late?

God Help those that want to help themselves and God forbid the mooches and enviromentalists. :roll:
 
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