Good Job, Ms Hobbs! gov. pulls saudi leases over unlimited pumping of groundwater

[butters]

former gov. allowed unlimited groundwater pumping by saudi company growing alfalfa for cattle farms in saudi with no payment to state. Now, with so much drought and water-rationing, Hobbs has said enough is enough and is pulling the leases.

Hobbs announced on Monday the termination of the lease for Fondomonte Arizona, a Saudi-based company that operates an alfalfa farming operation in La Paz County in western Arizona in the Colorado River Basin.

Saudi companies lease huge swaths of land along the Colorado River border between Arizona and California where they use ground water to grow alfalfa to make hay for cattle ranches in Saudi Arabia.

Fondomonte’s lease under Hobbs' predecessor Republican Governor Doug Ducey allowed them to take as much ground water as they wanted to grow alfalfa without any payment to the state.

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[LincolnDuncan]

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[ToPleaseHim]

It is incomprehensible to use that much water to benefit cattle farms in another country! I need to read further…does meat from those cattle farms go to McD’s or something and ultimately end up back in the states? How do these arrangements end up in effect? Yikes.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

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