Gov Moonbeam: ‘Some People Have a Right to More Water Than Others’

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

That state is getting everything it deserves for voting in this kind of idiot.

Jerry Brown, Democrat governor of drought-stricken California, appeared Sunday on ABC’s This Week and defended his executive actions that placed mandatory water restrictions on citizens but not on the agriculture industry.

“There are farmers who have senior water rights,” Brown told guest-host Martha Raddatz. “Some people have a right to more water than others.”


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[mrldii]

Taken out of context (as you deliberately did), it does read as odd, although in California (as well as most western states) "senior water rights" are right next to gold.

However, the Governor is not placing the mandatory 25% reduction on agricultural customers at this time because for the past several years they have been voluntarily letting fields sit stagnant as a way TO cut their water usage.


By the way, 50% of the crops that feed 100% of the country come from California, so keep chuckling about the severity of the drought that is decimating the largest supplier of food for the country.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Taken out of context (as you deliberately did), it does read as odd, although in California (as well as most western states) "senior water rights" are right next to gold.

However, the Governor is not placing the mandatory 25% reduction on agricultural customers at this time because for the past several years they have been voluntarily letting fields sit stagnant as a way TO cut their water usage.


By the way, 50% of the crops that feed 100% of the country come from California, so keep chuckling about the severity of the drought that is decimating the largest supplier of food for the country.

Nothing was taken out of context with Mr. Moonbeam.

I am not laughing at the drought I am laughing at the absolute stupidity on how the liberal leaders handle the drought besides everything else in that state. And instead of pricing water like the free market would do in a crisis they try and control peoples habits with fear tactics. And then refuse to build anymore areas to store water and block water to protect minnows over the people.

And Florida does just fine growing our own crops without needing California if it came down to it.

 

[Rooster]

Another piece of the puzzle...

Governor Jerry Brown signed an executive order Wednesday implementing California’s first-ever mandatory water restrictions that require cities and towns to cut their water usage by 25 percent over the next nine months. But Brown will not cut oil company water use for fracking because the industry pays over $20 billion in state and local taxes.
Brown promised his extreme measures could save up to 1.5 million acre-feet of water, about enough water to fill Lake Oroville. But in an unsurprising gift to one of the state’s highest taxpayers, he exempted the oil industry’s consumption of 2 million gallons of water each day for production and processing of crude oil.

Reuters reported that the state’s powerful environmentalist lobby is furious that oil companies that use between one to thirteen million gallons of water per well for fracking are being left outside of Brown’s mandatory water cuts.

Breitbart revealed that the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released a Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) that fracking will continue in four major shale deposit regions because the EIA estimates that the break-even cost for just drilling and producing crude oil from fracking may have a $25 per barrel break-even price.

California Monterrey Shale formation appears to be the largest potential region for “tight oil” shale deposits in America, and many operators are already using fracking techniques to drill wells in California. The Sacramento Bee reported that up to half of the hundreds of new wells drilled each year in the San Joaquin Valley are using fracking, according to a new study required by the 2013 law that regulates the practice.

The California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources sent letters in 2012 asking California’s oil producers to voluntarily post records for all their fracking activity on FracFocus. The petroleum industry agreed to comply, as long as they could withhold their chemical solutions mixtures as exempt “trade secrets.” After environmentalists screamed for full-disclosure or nothing, the oil industry has since refused to disclose.

Zack Malitz of environmental group Credo complained to Reuters, “Governor Brown is forcing ordinary Californians to shoulder the burden of the drought by cutting their personal water use while giving the oil industry a continuing license to break the law and poison our water.” He added, “Fracking and toxic injection wells may not be the largest uses of water in California, but they are undoubtedly some of the stupidest.”

http://www.breitbart.com/california...industry-water-use-because-of-tax-collection/

 

[Webster]

By the way, 50% of the crops that feed 100% of the country come from California, so keep chuckling about the severity of the drought that is decimating the largest supplier of food for the country.

Mrldii's got a point there; anything bad happens to California agriculture and the rest of America gets a massive shock to the system as a result.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Mrldii's got a point there; anything bad happens to California agriculture and the rest of America gets a massive shock to the system as a result.

Well they got to this point partially because of bad government decisions of rules and no planning. But wasting billions on a stupid train across California now that sure makes sense over building facilities to store water that millions depend on. And now instead of raising prices equally to every one under a fair market value of water they are giving priority to walnut farmers who require a gallon of water per walnut.






Totally nuts! Growing almonds in California uses over 250% more water than all of L.A.
http://www.treehugger.com/sustainab...uses-over-250-more-water-all-los-angeles.html