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Letter: Group Opposing Cadiz Water Project
Posted by Laraine Turk on August 03, 2023
Related MBCA News follows this letter.
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Desert Sun Op-Ed Points to Cadiz Exploitation
Posted by Laraine Turk · June 10, 2024 2:58 PMAdd your reaction ShareA June 9 opinion article in the San Bernardino Sun points to the continuing irresponsible actions of the Cadiz corporation in seeking to pump precious desert water from a key aquifer in the Mojave Desert. Their recent efforts to gain approval for their project within the Latino community is pointed out in particular as exploitative. Click our tag Cadiz below to find many past reports about the Cadiz water project.Featured post
The Water Flows Always - Native American Land Conservancy Video
Posted by Laraine Turk · March 09, 2024 4:30 PMAdd your reaction ShareTuhaymani'chi Pal Waniqa or The Water Flows Always is a video from the Native American Land Conservancy and the Wayfinders Circle highlighting tribal connections to water in the desert and documenting the Cadiz corporate water mining project in particular. A father-daughter family story is also portrayed.Featured post
Update and History of Cadiz Water Project
Posted by Laraine Turk · January 25, 2024 2:34 PMAdd your reaction ShareThis January 25 column in the Los Angeles Times updates the status of the Cadiz Water project and provides a good overview of its decades-long attempts to "mine" water from the Mojave Desert. MBCA has frequently provided public comments and joined group comments against the project, most recently in August 2023. While the pipeline approval we opposed was granted, the column points out that "Last month (December 2023) the agency reissued the approval for Cadiz to acquire the gas pipeline, but not to convert it for water." (our emphasis)
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MBCA Joins Appeal to BLM to Stop Cadiz Water Project
Posted by Laraine Turk · August 03, 2023 3:28 PM · 2 reactions2 reactions ShareOnce again MBCA and many other concerned organizations have made an appeal to prevent the export of precious desert water by Cadiz, Inc. They have again requested permission from the Bureau of Land Management for right-of-way access to an existing pipeline. The letter signed by MBCA and 45 other groups summarizes the harm that would be caused and notes a previous denial of permission that had been granted under the Trump administration and requests another denial. (You can read a number of prior MBCA News posts about Cadiz by using our SEARCH function.)Featured post
A Change in Direction for Cadiz Water Project?
Posted by Laraine Turk · March 31, 2023 3:14 PMAdd your reaction ShareSpeaking at an water industry event at the Salton Sea near Mecca on Monday, March 27, Scott Slater, the CEO of Cadiz, Inc, the company that wants to sell water from the Cadiz aquifer for enormous financial gain, shared that the company is considering piping water "to bring water to disadvantaged communities within our reach."
Slater also revealed efforts "to pursue a relationship with the Salton Sea Authority...and the Torres Martinez tribe, to bring water to the Salton Sea and to benefit the tribe, which would happen via an exchange." Slater also noted that the company will then "push the water north into the northern hi-desert and then into the interconnected systems of the state," via its 220-mile Northern Pipeline.
MBCA has long been concerned about the devastating effects of the proposed Cadiz Water Project. A series of our past News posts about Cadiz plus other water-related issues we have reported on, can be found by searching "water" on our website.Featured post
Federal Action Taken Against Cadiz Water Project Pipeline
Posted by Laraine Turk · December 08, 2021 8:24 AMAdd your reaction ShareThe Biden Administration has pulled approval of the pipeline which was approved by the prior administration without required review. The Cadiz water mining proposal has been fought against as detrimental to the health of the Mojave Desert by MBCA and dozens of other conservation organizations for years. Press releases by the National Parks Conservation Association and the Center for Biological Diversity explain the details, as does this Los Angeles Times story. Many prior news stories posted by MBCA about the Cadiz Water Project can be found by scrolling down our Water Issues pages.Featured post
New Lawsuit Filed Over Cadiz Water Project
Posted by Laraine Turk · March 25, 2021 9:29 AMAdd your reaction ShareThe Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management in response to an action taken in the final days of the prior administration that would ease the path for the Cadiz Water Project. A right-of-way for the water mining scheme was granted without any public review. Read the news item by local radio KCDZ 107.7 and the press release from the Center for Biological Diversity for the latest information on this decade-long battle against draining important desert water reserves.Featured post
Governor Newsom Has Signed SB 307
Posted by Laraine Turk · July 31, 2019 8:56 PMAdd your reaction ShareGovernor Newsom today signed SB 307, a bill that requires that any water mining projects such as the Cadiz water project undergo new additional review processes to prove it will avoid environmental harm. Many thanks are owed to the many MBCA supporters who wrote comments and called the Governor's office in support of the bill. The Governor's letter approving SB 307 outlines the reasons for his action.Featured post
Urgent News Related to Cadiz
Posted by Laraine Turk · July 29, 2019 8:53 PMContinue reading → Add your reaction Share
Stop Cadiz: Call the Governor to sign SB-307!
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