Why DiFi Is Doomed to Fail! - One key factor will be Feinsteins ability — and willingness — to maintain a careful balance between agriculture and the states numerous and vocal environmental activists. L.A. Times DiFis willingness to maintain this careful balance is the reason nothing gets done and wont get done. Environmentalists dont give a hoot about this careful balance, and they sure as hell arent interested in compromise. A growing number of environmental groups and their allies in the House take the view that Congress should simply stay out of the states water allocation issues. They worry that any increase in pumping leaves the fragile ecosystem of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta vulnerable to collapse and feel they have the support they need in the courts and the Legislature to enforce a solution that would not involve diverting (contracted - our addition) additional water to large Central Valley farms. - L.A. Times The view that Congress should simply stay out of the states water issues suits environmentalist just fine. The rules that they had Congress put in place give them the water advantage and they dont want to ever give it back. They have taken more and more water every single year over the past twenty and they dont intend to give even one drop back. Compromise to them is failure. They are fine with Congress interfering as long as the interference is on their behalf. When its not, they position it as the feds meddling in the states affairs. As long as DiFi tries to compromise with environmentalist extremists there can be no compromise. They wont compromise on the pumping rules (which they couch as tampering with the Endangered Species Act) in the Delta. They wont compromise on the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement. Other than God and groundwater, these are the only ways for farmers to get water. I believe we can and must provide more operational flexibility in Californias water system, adding, however, that the state can move water without waiving environmental laws. - Dianne Feinstein We disagree. You cannot move enough water to matter without waiving or changing the law. Federal laws can only be changed by the feds. The silly talk about keeping them out of it is stupid. If DiFi insists on compromising with people who wont even consider compromise we will have the continued failure of her tenure in the Senate. latimes/nation/la-na-feinstein-water-20141227-story.html#page=1
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:03:41 +0000
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