[Sosfbay-discuss] Schwarzenegger's 'Moderate' Hypocrisy on California Water

[alexcathy at aol.com]

Dear Green Friends,

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger, our rightwing corporate-approved Republican conservative "social moderate" governor is at it again. Even while spinning his "image" to the clueless MSM as an environmentally-friendly "green" governor, the Governator is busy pandering to the usual cynical, sleazy corporate interests with his water plan for the California Delta. 

, our rightwing corporate-approved Republican conservative "social moderate" governor is at it again. Even while spinning his "image" to the clueless MSM as an environmentally-friendly "green" governor, the Governator is busy pandering to the usual cynical, sleazy corporate interests with his water plan for the California Delta. 


You think the world is going to hell over oil? The next big fight is over water.


Wes Rolley has posted important documents about the water crisis on his blog California Greening: Greenwashing and the Governor.


Check it out.


Here are some highlights.


from the non-profit community organization, Restore The Delta:


The Governor called once again for the building of additional water conveyance from the Delta (a.k.a. peripheral canal) and the building of additional dams. However, in explaining his five-point plan, he did not utter a word about a long term strategy for maintaining and improving Delta levees so as to deal with the state’s identified threats to the Delta including seismic activity and sea level rise. 

Restore the Delta staff is incensed that the Governor held his first press conference in the heart of the Westlands Water District – the primary area in California where land irrigated with Delta water does not drain properly resulting in polluted local groundwater tables – rather than embracing what local Delta stakeholders have to say as they participate in the public process that he mandated. Clearly, by going on tour to call for the building of the peripheral canal, the Governor has chosen to cast his lot with large corporate water interests,

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After a week of courting the national press on his environmental leadership record, Governor Schwarzenegger does not have the courage to admit publicly to local Delta stakeholders that his water plan is centered on providing more Delta water to special water interests and corporate agriculture in the southern part of the state. Without a doubt, the Governor is embracing a policy that would be the final death blow for Delta fisheries and, thus, has lost the right to claim the title of environmental governor. He has bought into and is selling the notion that the peripheral canal is the environmentally superior method for water conveyance from the Delta 


from the leading West Coast fishing magazine, The Fish Sniffer:


The Governor's campaign to build the peripheral canal at a time when he is nationally touting his "environmental" credentials by posing on the covers of national magazines is "greenwashing" of the worst sort. We must expose the Governor for his hypocrisy - and stop him in his efforts to build a canal that would undoubtedly destroy the Delta and result in the destruction of Delta smelt, salmon, steelhead, striped bass, sturgeon and other species.


The So-Called-Liberal media and the clueless "liberal" Democrats let him get away with it. 

Just yesterday I heard a report on NPR that the catastrophe currently underway in Darfur is mostly about water.  

Still wonder why we need a Green Party? 

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