The judge called one [scientist] a “zealot” who didn’t let facts get in the way of her goals and the other an “untrustworthy” witness.
Jim Kouri
Law Enforcement Examiner
9/26/2011
A federal judge blasted Obama Administration-connected scientists on Friday for their lying to justify a drastic reduction in the amount of water that flows into California’s central valley for the sake of protecting “endangered” fish, according to a blogger for a major public-interest group that investigates government corruption.
The feds provided “equivocal or bad science,” in order to divert two years’ worth of water from the state’s central valley farmland, according to a 279-page opinion issued this week by U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wanger in Fresno, California.
Considered the state’s agriculture hub, the area spans 2 million acres and has a population of about 25 million, according to a report from the Judicial Watch blog.
“An adequate water supply is essential and should trump the needs of “endangered” fish. That’s not how the Obama Administration sees it, however,” states a blog at Judicial Watch, a non-partisan watchdog group that investigates case of government and political corruption
To make its case the government put together an official “biological opinion” of different species that migrate through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. To save them the feds essentially have to stem the flow of water into the area, according to government biologists from various agencies.
But the judge dismissed portions of the government’s biological opinion, calling them “arbitrary, capricious and unlawful.”…
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