Thread: The Greens are all wet (CA. water problem)

The Greens are all wet

By Brandon Middleton and Damien Schiff
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 12:04 a.m.

How do you make green groups turn red with fury – or shame? Shine some light on the damage caused by their extremist environmental agenda.

Case in point: The indignant reaction of many environmentalists to news coverage of federal regulations that are worsening California’s water woes. Several big-time media voices – Fox News Channel’s “Sean Hannity Show,â€

Judge halts endangered-salmon plan

Posted at 02:06 PM on Friday, Feb. 05, 2010
By John Ellis / The Fresno Bee Buzz up!

U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wanger today put a two-week hold on a federal government management plan for endangered salmon species, a decision that should result in increased water pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Though the ruling is only in force for a short period, it comes at a time when there is increased water flow into the delta. Water pumped from estuary supplies water to agricultural users in the Westlands Water District as well as urban residents from the East Bay to Southern California.

The basis for Wanger’s ruling is the lack of endangered winter-run salmon around the massive delta pumps. If that situation changes, Wanger said the federal government could seek a change in the order.

In April 2008, Wanger invalidated a management plan — known as a biological opinion — saying it violated the Endangered Species Act by not adequately protecting winter-run Chinook salmon, spring-run Chinook salmon and the Central Valley steelhead.

The National Marine Fisheries Service rewrote the opinion, but in today’s ruling, Wanger found that the agency’s revamped plan did not consider the impact on humans.

Last year, Wanger made a similar ruling dealing with endangered delta smelt.

With Wanger’s temporary decision, still left to be decided — on both the salmon and smelt — is a more permanent ruling. That argument on the salmon is scheduled before Wanger on Tuesday.

http://www.fresnobee.com/1100/story/1810844.html

There have been species of animals that have gone extnct since the beginning of time. I always thought that it was servival of the fittest. Mybe there time has come. I know the fishermen want these fish preserved as they use them as bait. But, humans should come first. Farms should come first. This is rediculous and it is the environmentalist that have help ruin Ca.