Janice Bezanson
Janice Bezanson
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An angle people don't always think of, is the economic and environmental damage the reservoir is already doing. Landowners don't know whether to build barns, fences, houses that might be inundated, whether to plant trees that might never be harvested. So they're not maximizing the economic use of the land. They don't know whether they'll be able to leave their family ranch to their children, so their children must try and plan their lives with a huge uncertainty. Some people have already clear-cut land because they're afraid they won't get the value of their trees if their land is condemned.
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Texas law requires that the water plans protect the state's agricultural, natural and water resources. This plan fails on every count.
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These dams are not needed. The damage they would cause is not justified.
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The real fight will come when they actually try to build one of these reservoirs. We lost today's skirmish.