Fish and Conservation Groups Blast Schwarzenegger-Feinstein Water Bond Boondoggle |
| Published: July 29, 2008, 1:54 pm |
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Don't Sail Us Down a Peripheral Canal By Dan Bacher As Governor Schwarzenegger threatens to cut the salaries of 200,000 state workers to the $6.55 federal minimum wage to supposedly ease the state's projected budget deficit of $17.2 billion, Schwarzenegger and Senator Dianne Feinstein are campaigning for an enormously costly and destructive "compromise" $9.3 billion water bond proposal that includes more dams and a peripheral canal. Fishing and environmental groups strongly criticized the proposal for furthering imperiling already collapsing Central Valley and Delta fisheries while further indebting California taxpayers, while Democratic Legislators urged the Governor to spend $800,000,000 already allocated before talking about another water bond. The latest proposal follows the Governor's signing of an executive order in June declaring a statewide drought that directed state agencies and departments to take immediate action to address the drought conditions and [ Full article ] |
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