One must remember that people in California are really not that bright. Only a state that has rolling black outs would make every one buy an electric car.
My thought exactly. California has been great at pissing away the water resources it has whilst simultaneously preventing new resources in the form of reservoirs from being built. It's been allowed to exceed its allotment of the Colorado River since the compact of 1922 was formed, and its environmental regulatory quagmire only ensures anything that's done will take decades to complete and many multiples of original budgets in costs (see their "high speed train" fiasco, now costing in excess of $110+ BILLION.) Only morons in California would look to Canada to pipe water from 2000+ km away to slake the thirst of the water they piss out the Sacramento Delta.
I know people from Washington State have always said "no" to the idea of water from the state going to California. I don't remember if anything official was actually done, but it was a big talking point in the 70's and 80's.
The people in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan all have said the same thing and formed the Great Lakes Water Compact that expressly forbids the movement of water out of the Great Lakes to be diverted to other states. Hell, in many lakeside communities of Wisconsin their local county ordinances forbid using Lake Michigan water for municipal purposes. It is what it is.
The only Great Lake available for water rerouting is Lake Michigan as the others are all part of Canadian regulations as well as US regulations. Even Lake Michigan is debatable since water from Canada flows into it indirectly.
Umm, Thomas Mulcair hasn't been the leader of the federal NDP for close to a decade?!?!?! And the NDP has never formed - or even come close to forming - government! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mulcair
I would take this article more seriously if you had written a proper update for your readers explaining how the state of current Canadian politics has changed? The federal conservatives are the official opposition and if anyone might challenge the current Liberal party to form government, it would be them - it's lazy journalism to rehash an argument from close to a decade ago without reexamining the current context for your readers... especially folks south of the border who have little to no understanding of our politics or form of government.
Where does that water go now? And why would the benefits it brings now not be noticed after a dam is built? Additionally, why cater to glutenous American consumption? "Embrace sufficiency."
It is just a matter of time before the US “invades” one way or the other. No one will come to our rescue. The Borg will absorb us.
One must remember that people in California are really not that bright. Only a state that has rolling black outs would make every one buy an electric car.
My thought exactly. California has been great at pissing away the water resources it has whilst simultaneously preventing new resources in the form of reservoirs from being built. It's been allowed to exceed its allotment of the Colorado River since the compact of 1922 was formed, and its environmental regulatory quagmire only ensures anything that's done will take decades to complete and many multiples of original budgets in costs (see their "high speed train" fiasco, now costing in excess of $110+ BILLION.) Only morons in California would look to Canada to pipe water from 2000+ km away to slake the thirst of the water they piss out the Sacramento Delta.
I know people from Washington State have always said "no" to the idea of water from the state going to California. I don't remember if anything official was actually done, but it was a big talking point in the 70's and 80's.
The people in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan all have said the same thing and formed the Great Lakes Water Compact that expressly forbids the movement of water out of the Great Lakes to be diverted to other states. Hell, in many lakeside communities of Wisconsin their local county ordinances forbid using Lake Michigan water for municipal purposes. It is what it is.
The only Great Lake available for water rerouting is Lake Michigan as the others are all part of Canadian regulations as well as US regulations. Even Lake Michigan is debatable since water from Canada flows into it indirectly.
I am not certain that the American government under certain administrations has much respect for Canadian regulations.
Umm, Thomas Mulcair hasn't been the leader of the federal NDP for close to a decade?!?!?! And the NDP has never formed - or even come close to forming - government! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mulcair
I would take this article more seriously if you had written a proper update for your readers explaining how the state of current Canadian politics has changed? The federal conservatives are the official opposition and if anyone might challenge the current Liberal party to form government, it would be them - it's lazy journalism to rehash an argument from close to a decade ago without reexamining the current context for your readers... especially folks south of the border who have little to no understanding of our politics or form of government.
It was a republishing of a 10 year old post, I said so right at the top. Any update would depend on what happens next week in the US.
Where does that water go now? And why would the benefits it brings now not be noticed after a dam is built? Additionally, why cater to glutenous American consumption? "Embrace sufficiency."