| Faulty Judges + Junk Science = Lawsuit Abuse |
| Monday, 06 July 2009 18:41 |
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The ongoing water crisis in central California will soon result in water-less faucets throughout the state. The man-made "drought" imposed by judges utilizing a giant dose of junk science is stealing water from humans and and drying up California's "bread basket to the world." The continuing battle between the tiny Delta smelt and the very thirsty human beings began with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling (Tennesse Valley Authority v. Hill, 1978) on the Endangered Species Act that declared creatures would be preserved "whatever the cost."
The dinosaurs must feel completely ripped off right about now. In addition to the lack of common sense emanating from the bench, a large coalition from the agriculture community has challenged the use of faulty science which resulted in the fish-superseding-man decisions. The group has filed a request under the Information Quality Act (IQA) that was intended to ensure that the new requirements proposed by the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) were based solely on the best available scientific data. They believe that the USFWS failed to comply with the requirements of the IQA when it developed the Delta Smelt Biological Opinion and now the costs to California in both water shortages and dollars are escalating rapidly. And those financial losses are proving to be astronomical. The Bee estimates that the hit to the state's economy was already $300 million dollars at the end of 2008 and a loss of 80,000 jobs in the Central Valley. Judges have continued to side with what a Sacramento Bee article called "misguided environmentalists," fully reliant on junk science, while the nation's number one food producer is headed for the endangered list. And with both a food and water shortage affecting more than 23 million people, we all will suffer from the rabid environmentalists abusing our court system in order to advance a fish-first agenda. |
