4.05.2002

Even when caught lying, they persist....

Green group warns about Klamath River -- The Washington Times

An environmental group says the Klamath River is being polluted from farming activities and has listed it as the third most endangered waterway in the country.
Later in the article is an illustration of how fanatical these people are:

American Rivers [the environmental group] says large amounts of polluted agricultural runoff enter the Klamath River from its upper basin headwaters, which is the Klamath Lake.

But Bob Gasser, spokesman for the Klamath Water Users group, said there are no agricultural activities above the lake, only livestock grazing, and therefore no pesticides and fertilizers are used.

"This is based on feelings, not science, and that's what got our water cut off last year," Mr. Gasser said.
But they keep on going:

The environmental group wants the federal government to continue using a biological assessment study used to cut off the water last year and leave it for fish and wildlife.

However, a peer review of that study by the National Academy of Sciences found the science was baseless, and the water was turned back on during a ceremony last week attended by Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton and Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman.
As is becoming clearer and clearer (no pun intended), pollution is being reduced. That does not stop idiots from demanding even more.

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