Blog: When in Drought, Corporate Agribusiness Attacks Bay-Delta Environmental Protections
From the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) staff Switchboard blog, in a post by Doug Obegi:
“As California begins what appears to be a third consecutive dry year, corporate agribusinesses and politicians in the San Joaquin Valley have begun calling for the State and federal government to waive environmental rules governing the Bay-Delta estuary – the same environmental rules that not only protect salmon and other wildlife in the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas, but also protect thousands of fishing jobs and water quality for Delta farmers.
“Ironically, at the same time that these special interests are seeking to waive State and federal environmental rules, the State of California and these same agribusinesses are asking Delta farmers, fishermen, conservation groups, and the public to trust that the massive new intakes proposed as part of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan will be operated according to strict environmental rules, which would limit diversions in dry years like this one.”
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