Monday January 18th, 2016 •
Posted by
K. Lloyd Billingsley
at 10:40am PST • 0 Comments
As we have noted, governor Jerry Brown wants to drill two massive tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The total cost of his Delta conservation plan is $25 billion, but based on projects such as Boston’s “Big Dig,” and a highway tunnel project in Seattle, the cost would be much higher. A coalition of farmers, environmentalists and recreational anglers oppose the Delta project, but as David Siders and Dale Kasler note in the Sacramento Bee, the governor is now calling the tunnels a “fundamental necessity.”
“If we don’t have the project, the Delta will fail, the water will not be available and California will suffer devastating economic consequences,” Brown told reporters, calling the tunnels “a fundamental necessity of California’s current and future prosperity.” Brown said “we’ll get it done” but, as the reporters note, agencies in the southern part of the state might not be eager to pay up. Taxpayers might note that Brown’s other pet project, the vaunted bullet train, also has a case of tunnel vision......
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