Arizona governor Katie Hobbs said this week her administration is terminating land leases that for years have given a Saudi-owned farm nearly unfettered access to groundwater in the parched southwestern state.
  • Nougat@kbin.social
    66·
    2 years ago

    An investigation by the governor’s office found that the foreign-owned farm had violated some of its lease terms. Hobbs called it unacceptable that the farm “continued to pump unchecked amounts of groundwater out of our state while in clear default on their lease.”

    Important to note, AZ didn’t cancel the lease illegally.

    • Decoy321@lemmy.world
      35·
      2 years ago

      Another important thing to note: This change was led by the new governor, Katie Hobbs. The previous governor, Doug “I don’t give a shit about my constituents” Ducey, was content to let them keep up their unacceptable violations.

  • Yewb@lemmy.world
    41·
    2 years ago

    Sounds good lets do it for all foreign owned companies, resources are resources.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 years ago

      Yes and no.

      Imagine how bad the water situation has to be for that government in particular to tell the Saudis and their infinite bank accounts to take a hike.

  • Chemical@lemmy.worldEnglish
    125·
    2 years ago

    Or we can start putting that high quality h2o in barrels and start raising the price.