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Commentary: Radical environmentalism threatens Fresno area agriculture, shut down water supply

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 16, 2009 at 7:59 am

From the San Jose Examiner, this commentary:

“California’s agriculture industry is facing a potential meltdown due to radicalized environmentalists who have made it clear a three inch fish is to take precedent over people.

What the environmentalists (especially the “whackos” in the movement) are doing could actually end up backfiring in their faces. It’s estimated that over 24 Million California residents in 3 major areas (Silicon Valley, Central Valley/Fresno and Los Angeles) will be “shut off” from our state’s water system and on top of that, we’re only getting 10% of the water allotment for Agriculture, which means were going to export far less food to other states and countries, which will then cost jobs at Supermarkets, Trucking and other ancillary businesses that rely upon this water and Fresno/Clovis CA’s Ag goods which rely upon this water.

But hey, what does millions of job losses factor on the overall health of the economy. This point was brought up to some extent in a recent interview I did with the Former Mayor/Current City Councilman of the City of Clovis, CA. …”

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November 16, 2009 · Filed Under Drought, Weather & Snowpack

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One Response to “Commentary: Radical environmentalism threatens Fresno area agriculture, shut down water supply”

  1. dfb on November 18th, 2009 10:16 pm

    The guy is a fraud. He refuses to back up his assertions with fact or disclose sources for those assertions.

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