From Republic environment today (January 30, 2009) the following article ...
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U.S., denies the river to the Grand Canyon ColoradoPericoli
The Bush administration has ignored or distorted the responses from U.S. research on water resources. At the expense, the ecosystem of one of the most popular parks in the world of CRISTINA Nadotti
A view from the Grand Canyon
falsified scientific reports to work around the expert advice on environmental hazards. It is only the latest in one of the many misdeeds of the Bush administration in terms of environmental protection, and pick up the bill this time was a natural monument, the Grand Canyon. The U.S. newspaper Washington Post disclosed that the Interior Ministry wanted to ignore, and in some cases change, the leaders of scientific research on the proper management of water resources of the Colorado River. In doing so, the fauna and the ecosystem in general of the Grand Canyon, according to environmental group Grand Canyon Trust were heavily damaged. A long-running dispute. The dams on reservoirs that belong to the Colorado are the focus of a long-running dispute. The waters that feed the river provide hydroelectric power and their flow is regulated depending on the needs electricity in the area. But if the opening or closing of dams for hydropower is useful, not necessarily the same for both the ecosystem of the Grand Canyon. Environmentalists maintain that an adjustment of the flow is not natural because, by its nature, the Colorado is characterized by periods of flooding and drought. In contrast, power plants require a nearly constant flow and, to save money, they want to close some dams at night, when you need less power. The five-year plan. Last February, the Interior Ministry, which also deals with environmental management, approved a program that provides only for a full year, in March 2008, after which the Colorado would have had a steady stream until 2012. Any decision on how to manage the water was then postponed, according to the results of studies cost the federal government more than $ 100 million. But these studies, argue environmental groups, say clearly that the Colorado would be better with more occasional floods and the government wanted to ignore them. In their place, as have escaped the leadership of the Grand Canyon National Park, studies have been falsified or incomplete products, amended the parties against the interests of big companies that own hydroelectric plants.
Animals victims of Bush. Among the victims of unscrupulous policy of the Bush administration We are therefore now also Gila Cypha, freshwater fish typical of some American rivers, besides the beaches of Colorado, threatened by erosion due to the policy of management of dams. In particular, the fish population is the subject of a dispute in the dispute because the government has argued in launching the five-year plan, that the population of Gila Cypha is not at risk, while environmentalists say the fish should be included in the lists of species at risk. The fauna of the Grand Canyon is just the latest to be threatened by the choices of the Bush administration: the salmon were among the first species already at risk decimated by Republican policies for the fisheries and the construction of dams. In addition, the President had cut funding to public research on endangered species, research that, even when they were made, were often ignored. The challenge of
Minister Salazar. Ken Salazar, Secretary of State for Home Affairs appointed by Barack Obama declined to comment on the specific case of the Grand Canyon. However, his intent, in accordance with the program's new president, is to reverse the Bush administration and put at least the same plane as environmental and economic interests. "There will be no more mistakes of the past," the minister have said in recent days, and the environmentalists have now launched an appeal: "If you really want change, start by his ministry, challenging him to get rid of employees and officials used to take greater account of the reasons for the industrial relations than science.
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