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Search results for "Water from the Deschutes River is largely given away to wealthy landowners"

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Chris Abele stated on March 15, 2016 in a television ad:
An image in a Chris Abele TV ad depicts "wealthy citizens" who would benefit from a "lake" created by the controversial Estabrook Dam.
By James B. Nelson• March 29, 2016
Tim Knopp stated on March 06, 2012 in campaign website:
Says "today unemployment has been running near 12 percent or more for the last four years" and the Legislature hasn’t done much to lower it. 
By Janie Har• April 2, 2012
Greg Abbott stated on June 16, 2021 in a press conference:
“Carnage" is being caused "by people who are coming across the border."
By Brandon Mulder• July 2, 2021
Jon Tester stated on August 20, 2024 in a post on X:
“In Montana, we cherish our public lands. But Tim Sheehy called to transfer them off, so the ultra-rich can buy them up.”
By Louis Jacobson• October 29, 2024
Tim Echols stated on October 26, 2015 in an opinion piece in a trade magazine:
"Our state has no major rivers to produce big hydropower."
By April Hunt• November 10, 2015
Free Market Florida stated on March 01, 2011 in a web video.:
Says new EPA water regulations would force the state to make drainage canals every bit as clean as pristine Florida river systems.
By Aaron Sharockman• March 30, 2011
Stop Gillnetting Now stated on May 30, 2012 in campaign press statement:
Says "Oregon is one of only three states that allow the use of gillnets on inland waters."
By Janie Har• June 14, 2012
Al Jazeera America stated on June 14, 2014 in a documentary:
The proposed Gogebic iron ore mine is "just up the hill" from the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore caves along Lake Superior.  
By James B. Nelson• June 23, 2014
Bob Gibbs stated on April 18, 2012 in a committee hearing in the House of Representatives:
"Water transportation is the most fuel efficient, least polluting, safest, and least expensive means of moving cargo."
By Peter Krouse• May 28, 2012
Lee Leffingwell stated on December 13, 2012 in an Austin City Council meeting.:
Says Austin’s treated wastewater, put into the Colorado River, is of higher quality than water the city takes from the lake for public use.
By W. Gardner Selby• January 21, 2013
Facebook posts stated on December 08, 2023 in a video:
A river in Russia turned red in a biblical omen or divine “retribution.”
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• December 13, 2023
Kevin McCarthy stated on July 12, 2017 in a speech on the House floor:
"While California’s population has doubled since the 1970s, we haven’t completed a single major (water) storage project in that time."
By Chris Nichols• July 18, 2017
John Kasich stated on November 29, 2012 in a news conference:
Says "Detroit dumping a bunch of sewage" in Lake Erie "causes big problems" for Ohio.
By Aaron Marshall• January 7, 2013
Michael Moore stated on November 11, 2016 in remarks on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
In Flint, Mich., "the pipes still haven't been replaced. The water is still poisoned."
By Louis Jacobson• November 21, 2016
Marco Rubio stated on October 16, 2015 in prepared remarks in a written speech:
To abide by Environmental Protection Agency rules when mining or drilling you have "to take caution not to disturb bodies of water barely bigger than a puddle."  
By Amy Sherman• October 22, 2015
Kirk Watson stated on December 31, 2012 in an opinion piece in the Austin American-Statesman:
Says in "our region," 2011 was worst drought year ever recorded.
By Sue Owen• January 15, 2013
Billy Richardson stated on August 31, 2017 in on the House floor:
North Carolina is home to "two rivers of the top five most polluted rivers" in the U.S.
By Paul Specht• September 20, 2017
Steve Adler stated on November 19, 2014 in a TWC News debate:
"The city of San Antonio reuses almost 40 percent of its water. You know how much the city of Austin reuses? About 5 percent. And that's not right. We can do better."
By Dylan Baddour• December 11, 2014
Donald Trump stated on May 11, 2017 in an interview with 'The Economist':
The federal tax code includes "deductions for birds flying across America."
By Louis Jacobson• May 15, 2017
Tom Hughes stated on November 02, 2011 in a guest column:
Twenty percent of housing in Portland’s Pearl District is ‘affordable.’
By Janie Har• November 18, 2011

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