FEB. 7, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Ready for another phantom “drought”? The National Resources Defense Council is. The NRDC’s bogus Delta Smelt lawsuit brought the court-ordered “drought” from 2007 to 2010. Now the NRDC is launching a disinformation campaign to divert the public’s a...
Posts Tagged ‘smelt’Disinformation Floods Delta Water WarTuesday, February 7th, 2012Water Bond Would Impose BureaucracyTuesday, November 8th, 2011NOV. 8, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Remember the $11.1 billion water bond that was supposed to be Proposition 18 on the November 12, 2010 ballot? Polling showed it was losing badly, so then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger poured it down the drain. Prop. 18 now has gurgled back up through the sewer pi... Judge Backs Humans Over Fish in DeltaMonday, September 19th, 2011 SEPT. 19, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI On Sept. 16, U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger threw the Delta smelt minnow back into the waters of the Sacramento Delta. He ruled the federal government’s case was too small to grant a stay -- a court-ordered continuation -- of the man-made “X2’... Sept. 16 is X-Day for Delta Smelt CaseThursday, September 15th, 2011 SEPT. 15, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Sept. 16 is X-Day in the Delta Smelt legal battle. I call tomorrow X-Day -- sort of like D-Day in World War II -- because it concerns the battle over X2 conditions in the California Delta. X1 Up to the early 20th century, X1 was made by nature and extended ha... California’s Water Wars Heat UpThursday, August 25th, 2011 The following first appeared in City Journal California. AUG. 25, 2011 By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON California’s water wars aren’t about scarcity. Even with 37 million people and the nation’s most irrigation-intensive agriculture, the state usually has enough water for both people and crops... Green Catch-23 Hurts Hydro PowerTuesday, April 19th, 2011 APRIL 19, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI If a Catch-22 is a choice between two equally undesirable alternatives, California’s mandate to purchase green power must be one more than a Catch-22 – it must be a Catch-23. This is because California’s new green-power law, mandating 33 perc... Water bills threaten California prosperityThursday, December 31st, 2009By WAYNE LUSVARDI Will Southern California sell its maximum annual entitlement of 2 million acre feet of water from the State Water Project for a bundle of small water projects of uncertain yield, plus $2 billion of political pork barrel projects, if voters approve the proposed $11.1 billion Co... |