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To improve and deliver a reliable supply of water to CA, WA and OR by speeding up approvals to build infrastructure, desperately needed by farmers. This has needed to be done for decades but no one ever did it until now.
I didn't listen to the whole thing. Did he also give funding for reservoirs and/or irrigation to help combat their wild fires? They could use it.
During the fires this summer, fire chiefs stated that there was no shortage of water for fighting forest fires. So no, reservoirs apparently will not help with wild fires.
I didn't listen to the whole thing. Did he also give funding for reservoirs and/or irrigation to help combat their wild fires? They could use it.
No - but he is starting to bring up the fact that CA needs to get over itself and start cleaning up the deadwood in their forests - otherwise funding could be affected.
Trump made the comments during a cabinet meeting Wednesday. The Trump administration has been critical of California’s “bad environmental laws,” blaming them for exacerbating wildfires.
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“I say to the governor, or whoever is going to be the governor of California, you better get your act together,” Trump said, according to the Los Angeles Times. “We’re just not going to continue to pay the kind of money we’re paying because of fires that should never be to the extent.”
“It’s a disgraceful thing. Old trees are sitting there, rotting and dry. And instead of cleaning it up, they don’t touch them,” Trump continued. “I think California ought to get their act together and clean up their forests and manage their forests.”
California has seen as increase in the cost of wildfires in recent years as dry and windy conditions have combined with forests full of dead and dying trees to create an environment ready for a spark.
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