Why science, not money, should matter on June 5th
Antonio Villaraigosa's long association with a desert water mining scheme should disqualify him from governorship of CaliforniaTrump’s Cadiz relies on complicit Democrats
Projects don’t come any more suspect than water-from-the-desert-schemes. So why are two of California's most ambitious Democrats backing Trump's Cadiz?Forget it, Jake. It’s Cadiz
In May, an appellate court ruled that a bid by an Orange County water company to export desert water for sale to So Cal cities qualifies as “conservation.”Cadiz campaign donations likely impacted San Bernardino County groundwater ordinance
A look at how Cadiz Inc has greased political wheels since 1997 to the point that supervisors in San Bernardino County, California are preparing to waive a Mojave ordinance to let the private company export desert groundwater to Orange and Los Angeles County suburbs.Cadiz: Wrong in any Wordle
Faced with a crowd of 500 people* last week, many protestors, the Rancho Santa Margarita Water District postponed certifying the final environmental impact report for its groundwater-mining bid in the Mojave Desert. Rather, the final vote for what is styled as the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery, and Storage Project is scheduled for tomorrow night, July 31st, 2012 at 6pm in Mission Viejo (click here for details), with a video hook up for Joshua Tree protestors who organizers clearly hope won’t have the steam to make another 300-mile return trip. For those of you who missed last week’s meeting, this YouTube video of what appears to be Cadiz lawyers feeding scripts to “public” commenters planted in the audience is a priceless piece of citizen journalism. For more on the project, click here for a Pacific Institute analysis of its shortcomings. The text is even more withering when it hasn’t been …
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