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Our opinion is that the biggest reason our water is still polluted is because the proponents of the Bajagua project, the Agua Clara corporation, have literally blocked every effort to deal with the myriad of pollution sources on the border over the past eight years.
by Serge Dedina
Our opinion is that the biggest reason our water is still polluted is because the proponents of the Bajagua project, the Agua Clara corporation, have literally blocked every effort to deal with the myriad of pollution sources on the border over the past eight years.
This corporation, Agua Clara, the promoters of the project, that consists of lobbyists and owners who do not either surf our beaches or live in the southern part of the county will make hundreds of millions of dollars from a contract with no public oversight, and our beaches will still be polluted. So if the project doesn't work, they won't have to worry about surfing polluted beaches: we will.
According to the reporter who wrote this story, Agua Clara/Bajagua is also criticizing Wildcoast. We are honored that Agua Clara/Bajagua is now part of the honor roll of agencies/corporations that are critical of Wildcoast for defending our community and our coast. That list of course includes: Chevron-Texaco, Sempra, FONATUR, Mitsubishi and now the toll road proponents who want to destroy Trestles. As a longtime IB local who has spent my life defending our waves here locally, I say: "Bring it on."
We absolutely support the efforts of Assemblymember Lori Saldana to investigate the more than $20 million dollars this company spent lobbying for this project and the lack of public oversight by the most incompetent agency in the federal government: the International Boundary and Water Commission.
The company's biggest past supporter: Duke Cunningham who "arranged" a meeting with the company and Vice-President Dick Cheney.
We continue to track flows in the TJ river and pressure the IBWC to stop them (they deny they exist) and are currently organizing a surfer health survey and upcoming community meetings on developing a "Comprehensive Clean Water Action Plan."
The 2008 Beachley Classic got underway this morning, completing Rounds 1 and 2 as well as the opening two heats of Round 3 at nearby Freshwater Beach in clean two-to-three foot (1 metre) waves
Layne Beachley (AUS), 36, has officially announced her retirement from full-time competition, effective at the end of the year
Former Exeter University student Josh Lewin first heat at the Ocean and Earth Pro in the Canary Islands has been delayed because the 2ft surf was deemed uncontestable
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