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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri May 22, 2015, 02:08 PM May 2015

California's new water legislation held under top secret status; no one's allowed to know details

Looks like the drought has its very own TPP.

http://www.naturalnews.com/049787_California_climate_drought_legislation_government_secrecy.html#

The U.S. government is becoming less transparent than it has been at any time in our history, as evidenced by pending water legislation in the nation's capital that voters, via their elected representatives, are not permitted to see.

As reported by McClatchy Papers, five months into a new Congress and years into a punishing drought that still continues to ravage most of California, legislation dealing with dwindling supplies of water confounds and splits the state's lawmakers.

Moreover, draft copies of bills are kept so close to the vest that they appear to be a top secret. The myriad details surrounding each draft are constantly changing. Timing to introduce the legislation is not yet settled, although a June 2 Senate hearing might go off as planned. Democrats are divided, and some are just angry....

Feinstein and her staff are behind her chamber's drought legislation, but so far it has been developed under what a number of California water experts have independently called a "cone of silence."




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California's new water legislation held under top secret status; no one's allowed to know details (Original Post) KamaAina May 2015 OP
DiFi again. Cleita May 2015 #1
I was going to say the exact same thing... SoapBox May 2015 #3
Secrecy, often same as a delay tactic IMO. Classis Disaster Capitalism. Auggie May 2015 #2

Auggie

(31,133 posts)
2. Secrecy, often same as a delay tactic IMO. Classis Disaster Capitalism.
Fri May 22, 2015, 05:07 PM
May 2015

Waiting for a water shortage so severe we'll accept policy that favors special interests.

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