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CADIZ PROJECT GATHERS LEGAL SUPPORT

An appeal is in process by an environmental group and a company with a mining operation in Amboy to block the Cadiz pipeline project, which will tap an aquifer in the Cadiz Valley and move it to coastal California. Reporter Dan Stork says that many organizations have weighed in on the side of the developers…

Eleven local governmental bodies, trade groups, labor groups and others have filed amici curiae, or “friend of the court,” support for the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project.

Cadiz CEO Scott Slater welcomed the support, and criticized the appeals against his project by the Center for Biological Diversity and Tetra Technologies as unjustly blocking the project. On the other side, Ileene Anderson, senior scientist and public lands deserts director for the Center for Biological Diversity, said “They can have all the amici they want. For us, it’s all about draining an ancient desert aquifer—which wildlife and local residents rely on for fresh water—and exporting it for profit.”

The amicus curiae support was filed by the American Groundwater Trust, Association of California Water Agencies, Building Legal Defense Foundation, Building Industry Association of the Bay Area, California Building Industry Association, California Business Property Association, California Chamber of Commerce, California Association of Sanitation Agencies, California State Association of Counties, Property and Environment Research Center, and the Southern California District Council of Laborers.

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