President Bush has stuck $7 million into the budget to study the impact of removing O’Shaughnessy Dam and restoring Hetch Hetchy. Unfortunately not everyone looks like they’re happy about it.
ScrippsNews: “This week, the administration slid the Hetch Hetchy study funds into its overall Interior Department budget proposal. If approved by Congress, the money would fund research into the environmental and economic consequences of removing Hetch Hetchy’s O’Shaughnessy Dam.
‘We are extremely pleased that the federal government has seen fit to become a full partner with California in the Hetch Hetchy restoration study process,’ declared Ron Good, executive director of the Sonora-based group called Restore Hetch Hetchy.
But almost certainly, the pleasure will be short-lived.
‘It’s dead on arrival,’ Rep. George Radanovich, R-Mariposa, said Wednesday. ‘It’s a complete surprise, and I don’t support one bit of it.’”