Criminal Governor? The governor of California accepted three and a half billion dollars from the federal gov't to build a high speed railway and now..

@soar2newhighs Unfortunately I didn't research the original plans that were presented to Congress in 2010, but this is California, and they are super conscious about the environment. There wasn't enough water to put out the California fires because they wanted to save some kind of clam.

I realize I am making an assumption, but it does seem logical in light of the historical environmental consciousness of California that they would have done such a study.

Are you being sarcastic re: saving "clam", as in a creature, or as in, I believe a term that might be applied to $$$. But other creatures were "protected" and the human was told "BOHICA!"@4meAndyou

@soar2newhighs No, I am entirely serious. I am just mistaken, in that it was not a clam but an endangered tidewater goby, which is a small fish. My memory was never perfect. I read a LOT but I don't always remember it perfectly.

There was a water shortage in California before the drought. Farmers were fighting for water, but a large percentage of the available water was being diverted to a bay that had an endangered species of tidewater goby.

I had to look up BOHICA...😂

If memory serves me too, I'm getting "up there", Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer was involved in a decision on that, I believe.@4meAndyou

@soar2newhighs I never researched who was responsible, but California does have a massive record of being environmentally conscious (or is that self conscious?) 😉. Anyway, their track record really makes me feel as though they had to have submitted an environmental study to Congress when they requested the money for this railroad.