[env-trinity] Statement on Today's Order by Judge Wanger

[Byron]

Rep. Miller Statement on Pivotal Order In Bay-Delta Protection Case

WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman George Miller (D-Martinez), the former chairman
of the House Natural Resources Committee and author of several key water
reform laws, issued the following statement tonight upon the release of a
new order by U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger:

"Today's order is a very important step in the effort to force California's
water policy into compliance with the law. Nobody should be surprised by
this order, nor should they be surprised to learn that the government must
now take substantial steps to save the Delta and the Bay ecosystem.

"The Bush administration has been warned that their negligence and their
head-in-the-sand mentality would lead to a crisis, and it has.

"Make no mistake: by sacrificing the Bay-Delta and discarding common sense,
the water exporters have created a more uncertain and expensive future --
not just for the Bay-Delta but for the state and the people of California.

"They interfered with the science, they refused to impose common sense
solutions, and they broke the law. Today's order is a direct result of that
accumulated neglect and that systematic interference with the science on
which policy must be based."

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Byron Leydecker

Friends of Trinity River, Chair

California Trout, Inc., Advisor

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810

415 383 9562 fax

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org (secondary)

http://www.fotr.org

http://www.caltrout.org

 

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