Cheat Seeking Missiles

nsanity knows no bounds, and eco-insanity is particularly immune from boundaries. As the nation’s fiscal crisis deteriorates, whacked-out judges continue to make decisions that would bring incremental improvements to the environment, if any, at a cost of billions.

In case you haven’t read your most recent copy of the Capital Ag Press, here’s the latest:

A court ruling that forces New York City to have a pollution discharge permit for drinking water the city pipes in from elsewhere may threaten irrigation systems in the West.

Let’s pause here for a moment for the uninitiated. A discharge permit is what you need to get if you’re discharging pollutants to the environment. Back in the 70s when the Clean Water Act went into effect, this was a good thing. Industries and municipalities were dumping all sorts of nastiness into the nation’s waters - our waters - and it caused nasty things to happen, like the Cuyahoga River catching fire.

But that was long ago, and the big nasty pollutants and polluters are all under control. What’s not under control are environmentalists intent on using these laws to bring down our nation, so they came up with the idea of calling water a pollutant. If New York City buys water from upstate New York and puts it into its pipe, these guys want New York to have to consider that water a pollutant and get a discharge permit.

The ruling specifically relates to water transfers, something that happens literally thousands of times a year in Idaho and the West, says Scott Campbell, Boise attorney and chairman of the Water Quality Task Force for the National Water Resources Association.

Irrigation canals and ditches are specifically exempt from regulation under the Clean Water Act, but that may change if the court ruling stands, Campbell said. …

“That ruling is literally costing New York City millions of dollars,” Campbell said.

And why should they have to pay? Is there evidence that this transferred water has ever made anyone sick? No, of course not; it’s not a pollutant. But by mincing the letter of the law and finding a judge who apparently recently escaped the insane asylum, the enviros prevailed.

“There are a lot of other states with massive water transfer systems, such as Colorado, which pipes water from the West Slope of the Rockies to its eastern plains. That water moves through pipes and lakes. If the state is required to have a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit, we’re talking billions and billions of dollars. In some instances, there’s no way the water could be treated.”

California could find itself in a similar situation, given a massive water transfer system there that conveys water from the northern to the southern part of the state, he said.

Read more from the Capital Ag Press by clicking here.

C-SM readers know that Kieran Suckling, founder of the Center for Biological Depravity Diversity, promised long ago to change the way we in the West live by attacking our water supplies. His goal is simple: He wants to depopulate the West. The CBD is sure to jump on this lawsuit and try to apply it here, where water districts are already looking at having to increase rates dramatically to keep up with the “regulatory drought” brought by environmental lawsuits.

Again, forcing discharge permits onto water transfers will do nothing directly to improve the environment. But by making life more miserable for the people, it will accomplish the goals of the radical environmental movement.

hat-tip: Aquafornia

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