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Commentary/rebuttal: Hannity shed light on green agenda’s damage to California farms

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on February 7, 2010 at 7:56 am

From the Sacramento Bee, this commentary/rebuttal to the High Country News/Sacramento Bee story on Westlands Water District by Harold Johnson of the Pacific Legal Foundation:

” “Famously hypertensive.” That’s how Matt Jenkins of High County News describes Sean Hannity, who blamed the San Joaquin Valley water shortages on the Endangered Species Act (”Tapping into Anger”; Forum, Jan. 31).

What’s really “hyper,” however, is the ESA dictates themselves: By starving farms and communities of water, they’re hyper-outrageous.

Federal regulators ordered dramatic cuts in pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Central and Southern California, in a strategy to keep the endangered Delta smelt afloat. At least 500,000 acre-feet of water (163 billion gallons) were withheld last year. More pumping restrictions were proposed for other ESA-protected fish. … “

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February 7, 2010 · Filed Under Westlands Water District

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One Response to “Commentary/rebuttal: Hannity shed light on green agenda’s damage to California farms”

  1. Paul Theodore Link on February 7th, 2010 9:14 am

    When will people wake up and stop the people who put anything they can in front of common sense… Stop all the illegal immigration, and some of the water waste and we would have enough water for the Golden State.

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