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CSPA slams governor for water project consolidation

Posted by: Maven on May 20, 2009 at 1:37 pm

From Dan Bacher at IndyBay.org, this commentary:

Bill Jennings, chairman of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, on Tuesday castigated the State Water Resources Control Board for its draft ruling allowing the consolidation of the federal Central Valley Water Project (CVP) and State Water Project (SWP) place of use permits.

He said Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s drought proclamation is based on “bogus claims.” Had the Board allowed the proclamation to be introduced as evidence, “we would have rebutted its bogus claims lie by lie,” said Jennings.

As Jennings was testifying in defense of the Delta and California’s imperiled fish population, Schwarzenegger was in Washington, D.C. playing the role of the “Green Governor.”

“Following California’s lead in the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Obama administration today announced an agreement between the federal government, automakers, and the 14 states led by California in their fight to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles,” according to a statement from the Governor’s Office. “The agreement will lead to a new national standard that by 2016 will match California’s in reducing the CO2 emissions from new vehicles by 30 percent.”

However, when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger finally leaves office, he will leave as his legacy collapsing fisheries and environmental devastation unprecedented in California and U.S. history. While the mainstream media and corporate-funded “environmental” groups praise him for his grandstanding on “green energy,” he has presided over the destruction of Central Valley Chinook salmon, longfin smelt, green sturgeon, striped bass and other fish populations. “Environmentalism,” Schwarzenegger-style, is nothing other than a particularly toxic and destructive form of corporate greenwashing!

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May 20, 2009 · Filed Under Central Valley Project, State Water Project (DWR)

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