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Badlands Journal editorial board
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Agribusiness Giant Westlands Moves to Kill Salmon...Dan Bacher...2-1-10
Westlands Water District, the "Darth Vader of California water politics, is requesting a federal judge to order lifting restrictions on the operation of huge delta water pumps and canals from February through May, according to a news release from the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations and Water4Fish.
The move takes place as Westlands Water District, southern Calfornia water agencies, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature are pushing for the construction of a peripheral canal and new dams to export more water from the California Delta. If the peripheral canal is built, it is likely to result in pushing Central Valley salmon, Delta smelt, longfin smelt, green sturgeon and other fish into the abyss of extinction.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/01/18636759.php
PRESS RELEASE
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations
Water4Fish
For Immediate Release: February 1, 2010
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