Cadiz water project counters inaccurate remarks by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein
California Water News Daily 4-8-17 The Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project in the Mojave Desert have received a major boost from the Trump administration this week with the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) removal of two agency instructional memoranda, or IMs, that formed the basis of a 2015 review of the Cadiz project. […]
Mojave Desert Water Project Gets Trump Administration Boost
By ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press 4-5-17 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reversing an Obama-era policy, the Trump administration is clearing a path for a private company to pump water from beneath the Mojave Desert and sell it in Southern California. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management previously ruled that Cadiz Inc. couldn’t use an existing federal […]
Trump administration revokes Obama-era directive blocking controversial water project
FoxNews.com 4-5-17 The Trump administration issued a memo late last week revoking two federal directives implemented under President Obama that had blocked a controversial water project in California’s Mojave Desert. An acting assistant director at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rescinded two legal guidances that reinforced the agency’s 2015 decision that Cadiz Inc. […]
Cadiz Inc. Issues Statement in Response to Remarks by California Senator Dianne Feinstein on Cadiz Water Project
April 4, 2017: (LOS ANGELES, CA) –Today, Cadiz Inc. [NASDAQ:CDZI] (“Cadiz”, the “Company”) CEO Scott Slater released the following statement in response to a press release from California Senator Dianne Feinstein about the Cadiz Water Project and recent action by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management: “Senator Feinstein regrettably relies on outdated, 17-year old data […]
US Bureau of Land Management Rescinds Agency Framework for Evaluation of Activities within Railroad Rights-of-Way Granted under the 1875 General Railroad Right-of-Way Act.
On March 29, 2017, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, issued an Instruction Memorandum (IM) No. 2017-060 (https://www.blm.gov/policy/im-2017-060) to all field offices regarding the evaluation of existing and proposed activities within railroad rights-of-way (ROW) granted under the General Railroad Right-of-Way Act of 1875 (1875 Act). IM […]
Thoroughly reviewed Cadiz project to provide water, jobs: Guest commentary
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin – 3.20.17 | By Winston Hickox U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein recently authored a column decrying the Cadiz Water Project as bad for the environment, in violation of federal regulations and a threat to a national monument. That’s not the Cadiz Water Project I know, nor the project that’s been publicly reviewed, approved and upheld […]
GREENWIRE: On secretary’s first day, Chaffetz demands documents
E&E News Greenwire Published: March 2, 2017 New Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke got a housewarming gift from Congress on his first day on the job yesterday: a request for official documents related to issues ranging from the designation of national monuments to complaints against Bureau of Land Management law enforcement agents for alleged bullying. The […]
Company posts comprehensive rebuttal to Senator Feinstein Commentary
The Cadiz Water Project: Water, Jobs & Safe Use of an Existing Corridor The Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project is a public-private groundwater project sponsored by Cadiz Inc. and the Santa Margarita Water District (SMWD) that will conserve and deliver a reliable water supply to 400,000 people in Southern California. The Project […]
Company Update: Bipartisan Letter to New Interior Secretary Seeks Agency Withdrawal of Cadiz Water Project Right-of-Way Evaluation
Today, the Company reported that a bipartisan group of Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent a letter to the newly confirmed Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, to request that the agency rescind an existing evaluation and instruction memorandum regarding the Cadiz Water Project’s proposed use of a portion of an […]
Conservation and Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Desert is Worthy of Support
https://www.kcet.org/redefine/conservation-and-sustainable-management-of-groundwater-in-desert-is-worthy-of-support Courtney Degener, Cadiz, Inc. February 14, 2017 [Over the past few years KCET has run several stories critical of the proposed Cadiz water project. We thought it only fair to offer a representative from Cadiz an opportunity to share that company’s viewpoint. — eds.] Commentary: Over the last two decades, California has grappled with […]