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Interior appropriations chair questions legality of Cadiz pipeline right-of-way

Posted by: Maven on August 31, 2009 at 12:42 pm

From Emily Green’s Chance of Rain blog:

“US SENATOR Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chairman of the Interior appropriations committee, has challenged Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to certify the legality of plans by Cadiz Inc to use a 42-mile-long stretch of a Mojave railway line for part of a groundwater project in San Bernardino County.

Meanwhile, lobbyists for the speculators behind the project, Cadiz Inc, have been courting Southland public utilities to sign on to the project, possibly including a lucrative groundwater contract with the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power.

The Cadiz groundwater project, rejected by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in 2002, was revived in September 2008 when Cadiz signed an agreement to run a pipeline across railroad rather than federally-owned land.

Since then, Senator Feinstein, a long-time critic of the Cadiz plan and sponsor of the 1994 California Desert Protection Act, has written Bush and Obama Interior secretaries questioning the legality of Cadiz use of the Arizona and California Railroad line to convey water. …”

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August 31, 2009 · Filed Under Uncategorized

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  1. frankpatton on September 3rd, 2009 11:06 am

    That water has been aged assessed as about 1,000 years old, so one might conclude if it were to be taken, it would take another 1,000 years to refill the glass. Meanwhile what is the ecosystem going to do, I suppose just vanish.

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