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As property owners, my clients hold a water right, this is the same as all the farmers along the river, who hold land that has been irrigated, in most cases for over 100 years. That water right is valuable property, which can be transferred. It’s like buying and selling land, except that, Colorado River water can only be transferred if it goes through an extensive review process at both the State and Federal Levels. Any proposed transfer is independently analyzed.

Grady Gammage

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not their land, it’s not their legacy – it’s their bottom line, for me it’s personal because it’s my family’s land that we are fighting to preserve … and that could be in jeopardy when New York comes to play.

Kerry Donovan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Water Asset Management has engaged in a number of different purchase methods to keep their transactions unknown to many of the local jurisdictions, ella Nilson/CNN’s a very unpopular move to come from New York and invest in irrigated agriculture with the intent to dry Ella Nilson/CNN up and watch Ella Nilson/CNN blow away.

Jeremy Harlan/CNN Andy Mueller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These companies are actually pretty savvy in that they come out West, purchase and pick up cheap rural agricultural land, they sit on it for a little while and then they’re trying to sell Colorado River water, i do n’t think that they should be allowed to profiteer off of Arizona’s finite resources … If they’re coming after a portion of our only water supply on the river for many of our communities, we have to fight it.

Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These companies are n’t buying up plots of land because they want to farm here and be a part of the community, they’re buying up land here for the water rights.

Holly Irwin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Greenstone Management Partners is going to make millions at the expense of what Greenstone Management Partners’s going to do to our communities in the future and the precedence it’s going to set, we are in the midst of an extreme drought, our communities need Colorado River water. At some point, the state has a responsibility to protect the people that are here and to protect Colorado River water and not cater to those that are buying property for the water rights to make millions off of Colorado River water to benefit metropolitan areas.

Holly Irwin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s where I think we start to see this investment speculation, when these outside landholders get big dollars to grow nothing, these companies do n’t have the passion to grow crops, they have a passion to make money. It’s a very different land management mindset.

Kerry Donovan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’re trying to suck the very lifeblood out of these communities for their own financial benefit.

Jeremy Harlan/CNN Andy Mueller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Recent decisions handed down by [the Coast Guard’s administrative court] on sexual misconduct cases, such as those highlighted in the recent CNN story, are extremely troubling, and I don’t have a lot of confidence the court would do the right thing in my case either.

Hope Hicks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This industry is not safe, and the Coast Guard must do more.

Hope Hicks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have a series of portraits of so many people, with or without clothes on.

Lucy Liu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What? She was so good, you weren’t.

Lucy Liu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is what I do, i’m weird. You know me.

Drew Barrymore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There would still be a lot of people and entities not being paid. So in that sense, it’s still a default, i think the credit rating agencies would still be upset.

William English

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s simply a recipe for economic and financial catastrophe to think we can pay some of our bills and not all of them.

Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Prioritization is effectively a default by just another name.

Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The government, on average, makes millions of payments each day, and our systems are built to pay all of our bills on time and not to pick and choose which bills to pay, it would be an exceptionally risky, untested and radical departure from normal payment practices of agencies across the federal government.

Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I do believe we have a very strong and resilient banking system and all of us need to shore up the confidence of depositors that that’s the case.

Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I opposed Chair Powell for his initial nomination, but his re-nomination. I opposed him because of his views on regulation and what he was doing to weaken regulation, but I think he’s failing in both jobs, both as oversight manager of these big banks which is his job and also what he’s doing with inflation.

Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She keeps, keeps inspiring myself, all the tennis players around the world. And she’s been really an icon of our sport for so many years.

Novak Djokovic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I really want to be playing there, want to be there, i actually had in 2021 when I lost in the finals against (Daniil) Medvedev, probably one of the best moments I ever had with the New York crowd. And I’ve been fortunate to win that tournament three times, play many finals. And even though I lost that match, I received a lot of love and appreciation from people and I want to go back and I want to reconnect with the crowd there. So that’s something I’m looking forward to and hopefully it will happen.

Novak Djokovic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No, I have no regrets, i’ve learned through life that regrets only hold you back and basically make you live in the past. And I don’t want to do that. I also don’t want to live too much in the future. I want to be as much as in the present moment, but of course think about future, create a better future. Novak Djokovic has spent more weeks at No. 1 than any other player. Carl Recine/Reuters.

Novak Djokovic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

London Hollie was just very, very helpful, london Hollie was like, ‘ We’ve got this. Let’s get stuff done. ’ And we hit it off right away. We became a little team right away, in this chaos around us.

Hollie Savitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Both of us were quite adventurous, really open to traveling, so I think we had already made plans to see each other in the near future, so it was n’t a goodbye, it was an ‘ I ’ll see you in a bit. ’.

Hollie Savitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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