Feb. 24, 2010

THE SCREW TURNS: Emily Green, Chance of Rain

NEVADA Governor Jim Gibbons has all but given back what late last month the state supreme court took away when today he released formal instruction to the state legislature to revise 2003 legislation “concerning the time in which the State Engineer must act upon a water rights application so that [it] applies retroactively to all applications filed with the State Engineer between July 1, 1947 and July 1, 2003 and so that provisions … apply retroactively to pending applications and applications/permits under appeal involving certain transfers of groundwater.”

The upshot? Fasten your seatbelt for some time travel. Those who protested the nearly 300-mile long pipeline planned by Las Vegas to draw rural groundwater for the city in 1989, and who under state law at the time should have been guaranteed a hearing in 1991, but didn’t get it until 2007, and who in early 2010 successfully convinced the Supreme Court of Nevada that they had been screwed have been screwed again.

Is it legal? Time will tell. Is it fair? Undoubtedly not. What is it?

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“It’s Nevada, Inc,” said Launce Rake, former environment reporter for the Las Vegas Sun, now on staff with the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada.
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