Remember, Westlands buys cheap NorCal water from the Fed Govt, which is subsidized by OUR tax dollars, and then resells it at a huge mark up to Central Valley and SoCal customers!!!!!
"One of Largest "Corporate Welfare" Recipients Fears Being Exposed by "Over Troubled Waters" Film
Stockton, CA - Restore the Delta (RTD), a coalition of farmers, fishermen, environmentalists and business owners dedicated to a fair water policy, today exposed the effort by the Westlands Water District, one of the largest beneficiaries of taxpayer subsidies, for masquerading as the "Central Valley Tea Party" to instigate opposition to RTD's film documenting the public subsidies of water for huge, unsustainable corporate agribusiness on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. "It is hilarious that Westlands - huge growers who receive millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize their unsustainable practices," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, "wants to hide behind anti-tax groups. What utter hypocrisy."
The Westlands Water District sent out an appeal as the "Central Valley Tea Party" to promote opposition to the screening of the film Thursday evening at Fresno City College. The screening is free to the public and provides a unique examination of who benefits from today's water politics. A panel discussion will follow the screening in which audience members will be able to present questions to the panel.
Westlands Water District is a principal promoter of the proposed Peripheral tunnels that would destroy sustainable farming in the Delta, the health of the Bay-Delta estuary, and coastal fisheries. Westlands growers, which contribute only .3% to the state's annual GDP, see this project as a way to transform their junior water rights into permanent water guarantees at the expense of California's water rate payers and tax payers. Westlands growers disregard the importance of the Delta's $5 billion a year agriculture economy; the Delta's $650,000,000 recreational economy, and the $2 billion a year coastal salmon fishing economy - a total economy that supports millions of Californians, not a handful of large corporate farms.
Follow the link below to find the Westlands Water District (ooops, I mean Central Valley Tea Party) attack on RTD and Over Troubled Waters."
http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102037578231-194/ALERT.pdf
Quoted from http://campaign.r20.constantcontact...ys-Lx1G5qLkKUsbeNyINhdfDde88HpzP4go1wcnTNEQ==
"One of Largest "Corporate Welfare" Recipients Fears Being Exposed by "Over Troubled Waters" Film
Stockton, CA - Restore the Delta (RTD), a coalition of farmers, fishermen, environmentalists and business owners dedicated to a fair water policy, today exposed the effort by the Westlands Water District, one of the largest beneficiaries of taxpayer subsidies, for masquerading as the "Central Valley Tea Party" to instigate opposition to RTD's film documenting the public subsidies of water for huge, unsustainable corporate agribusiness on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. "It is hilarious that Westlands - huge growers who receive millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize their unsustainable practices," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, "wants to hide behind anti-tax groups. What utter hypocrisy."
The Westlands Water District sent out an appeal as the "Central Valley Tea Party" to promote opposition to the screening of the film Thursday evening at Fresno City College. The screening is free to the public and provides a unique examination of who benefits from today's water politics. A panel discussion will follow the screening in which audience members will be able to present questions to the panel.
Westlands Water District is a principal promoter of the proposed Peripheral tunnels that would destroy sustainable farming in the Delta, the health of the Bay-Delta estuary, and coastal fisheries. Westlands growers, which contribute only .3% to the state's annual GDP, see this project as a way to transform their junior water rights into permanent water guarantees at the expense of California's water rate payers and tax payers. Westlands growers disregard the importance of the Delta's $5 billion a year agriculture economy; the Delta's $650,000,000 recreational economy, and the $2 billion a year coastal salmon fishing economy - a total economy that supports millions of Californians, not a handful of large corporate farms.
Follow the link below to find the Westlands Water District (ooops, I mean Central Valley Tea Party) attack on RTD and Over Troubled Waters."
http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102037578231-194/ALERT.pdf
Quoted from http://campaign.r20.constantcontact...ys-Lx1G5qLkKUsbeNyINhdfDde88HpzP4go1wcnTNEQ==