A proposal in the state Senate would spend up to $1.5 billion to buy “senior water rights” that allow farmers to take as much water as needed from the state’s rivers and streams to grow their crops. If state officials owned those rights, they could leave the water in the rivers to benefit endangered species of salmon and other fish.
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For this to work, farmers would have to voluntarily sell their valuable water rights — something Birmingham says shouldn’t be a problem. Lots of farmers try to sell their water rights to Westlands Water District every year, Birmingham said.
“For many farmers … their children simply are not interested in continuing to farm,” Birmingham said.
But state Sen. Brian Dahle, a republican running for governor whose family has been farming in California for 92 years, said the only reason farmers would be willing to sell is because state officials are driving them out of business with burdensome regulations.
And if we have no more farms we'll go to the grocery store to buy our food. Or China.
ReplyDeleteThey turned all the high dollar real estate into shitholes as much as they could to in order to pick it up on the cheap. San Fran LA, Manhattan, etc.
ReplyDeleteTwo words, "Eminent Domain"
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So there will be more water left in the streams for the fish you can't catch and eat, and less water to grow crops, thus less food on the shelves, plus more population thanks to the open borders invasion policies causing even more pressure on the available food grown, and less kids wanting to take over the family farms (they could always transfer/sell the farm to people that WANT to farm), but we can get our food from chinklandistan, which imports many millions of tons of food every year from, OH yeah, they get it from the US. How is any of this shit supposed to make any sense whatsoever? It defies logic in any sense of the term. Ask yourself one simple question: Who Benefits From All This? Follow the money!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure there is a follow the money answer to this one versus the democratic death cult wanting to kill people in order to reduce global warming.
DeleteThe plan all along in Califruitopia has been to put farmers out of business so that .gov could buy up the land on the cheap for their pipe dream public transportation train system. All of the crap that has been generated by Biden and Gov. Nuisance has been driving toward that outcome. the real aim here is get those 15+ million gas guzzlers off of the CA roadways because climate change and zero carbon.
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$100 million surplus you say? Build more dams and reservoirs. Hydro power plants, water storage, and recreational lakes are more important a fish nobody cares about.
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