"In Sacramento, the Cadiz name is a poison pill."  These are not my words, but those of Cadiz, Inc.'s president and CEO, Susan Kennedy, in describing how Sacramento perceives Cadiz, Inc.  Kennedy stated this during an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

    Sacramento is actually a small network. As it has been fighting Cadiz, Inc. for decades, the word has spread.  Cadiz, Inc. has been branded in Sacramento as untouchable, as in, do not help it.

    That fate fell upon Cadiz, Inc. long ago.  Susan Kennedy is correct... Sacramento views Cadiz, Inc. as a 'poison pill.'

    It also doesn't help that President Trump has previously supported Cadiz, Inc., and Sacramento is adamantly opposed to all things Trump.

    How does this impact Newberry Springs?  Simple.  Many of the grants that the Newberry CSD plans to acquire for its fire department's future operations, including the construction of a new fire department building at a rough cost of $40 million, and the future grants for the Newberry Springs park, must funnel through Sacramento for its blessing.

    The Newberry CSD has a long history of making bad decisions on big items. It appears that the CSD will be making yet another enormous blunder by signing an agreement with Cadiz, Inc. for expected water and grant-writing assistance.

    Any association with Cadiz, Inc. will tarnish the CSD's future grant applications processed through Sacramento.

    One thing appears set in concrete: Cadiz, Inc. can not fulfill its promise to deliver water.  The company's business is based on water delivery, and it can not do so. For income, it must continue to bag investors and work on loans and grants. That is what it is currently doing.

    Cadiz, Inc. needs people to believe in the myth of its ability to deliver water in order to attract investors... and to acquire loans and grants to stay afloat.  It has been making water delivery promises for decades, and the company hasn't delivered a drop!

    I believe the company is operating a con game, a sin that the Newberry CSD shouldn't become a part of.

    Before the organization of the Newberry CSD's Cadiz Water Committee, there was preposterous talk that the company would help the CSD acquire grants to purchase Cadiz, Inc.'s water, and possibly some infrastructure, such as piping to move the water.

    As described in my previous news blogs, with Senate Bill 307, Sacramento is preventing Cadiz, Inc. from pumping any water for its pipeline that runs through Newberry Springs. With the State Lands Commission also preventing water from passing through its State Land, the Cadiz pipeline is not usable.

    Despite this knowledge being available and known, the Newberry CSD board and its water committee are still headed down a path of an absurd alliance with Cadiz, Inc.  The foolish association could negatively impact the community's grant funding for years.

    Cadiz, Inc. has been making promises for four decades that it hasn't kept with others, and the Newberry CSD board is poised to sacrifice its good name.  Cadiz, Inc. is not in any position to keep its water promises.  (That isn't my opinion, but the actions of the State of California!)

    So, why is Cadiz, Inc. making such a tremendous effort in Newberry Springs?  Because Cadiz, Inc., for its grant and loan applications, desperately needs an agreement with a disadvantaged community along its Northern Pipeline between Cadiz and Barstow.  And, Newberry Springs is the only legitimate candidate!

    Cadiz, Inc. is currently on very thin ice, tiptoeing on financial ruin. It is applying for grants that would be greatly assisted if it had an alliance with a disadvantaged community. That is the only reason why the company is so aggressively romancing Newberry Springs.

    A courtship with this wanning company will not do anything for Newberry Springs; it can only taint the community and cause irreparable harm in the grant world.

    If Cadiz, Inc. were a legitimate company, it would only come to Newberry after it had its necessary permits in hand. Not empty promises!  The Newberry CSD should do nothing with Cadiz, Inc. unless Cadiz, Inc. has its necessary permits. The company is currently trying to entangle Newberry in its losing struggle.

    Newberry resident Rose Beardshear, who has been spearheading the Cadiz, Inc. agenda in Newberry Springs, appears ignorant of how Cadiz, Inc. is manipulating her and her groupies with rainbow promises of water that Cadiz, Inc. cannot, and will not, keep. And, worthless grantwriting promises.

    No one is going to give Newberry Springs an infrastructure grant to connect to an empty Cadiz pipeline.

    Cadiz, Inc. is so financially strapped that it will promise us anything to get us in bed.  Its bed promises of a great climax are as empty as its pipeline.

    Beardshear and her followers also do not apparently care about the killing of tens of thousands of wildlife creatures that live in the greater Cadiz region of our Mojave Desert.  Lacking empathy in what they are doing, these well-intended people are a danger to Newberry and the desert's environment.

    For the company's funding, Cadiz, Inc. is currently excited about being invited to apply for a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) $194 million federal Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act ("WIFIA") low-interest loan. The money in the application is supposedly for the Mojave Groundwater Bank - Northern Pipeline ("MGB-NPL") Project.

    It is indeed impressive to be invited; the EPA sets the money aside and then does an extensive review to see if the company qualifies for any portion of it.  Will Cadiz, Inc. qualify?

    Not likely, as the company needs to substantiate that its project will not have a negative impact (0%) on the environment (Cadiz, Inc. overdrafts the environment), that the company is fiscally sound (It is fiscally upside down in heavy debt), and that its project will have no impact on the Native Indian culture (Numerous native tribes are on the warpath against Cadiz, Inc.).

    The company's public excitement is a contrived act for the gullible... and there are always a few.

    Should the above loan become available, a huge chunk of it may go to a big payment coming due on 180 miles of Keystone XL 36-inch pipe that Cadiz, Inc. has purchased. The pipe is sitting in a North Dakota storage yard.

Note: Congratulations on reading this. You now have more knowledge and understanding of the topic than most of those at the Newberry CSD who are handling the Cadiz matter.