Federal Government Threatens: “A Gigantic Grab of All Water Rights in the United States”

Saturday, June 4, 2016
By Paul Martin

Jeremiah Johnson
June 4th, 2016
SHTFplan.com

You may recall, Readers, that I penned a couple of pieces detailing the CKST (Confederated Kootenai & Salish Tribes) Water Compact last March in 2015. To refresh in brief, the Water Compact gives the Indian Tribes the water rights to all surface and subsurface water in almost all of Western Montana, to include Flathead Lake. The problem: these water rights are all off-reservation. That’s right. The Democratic-controlled State Senate, House of Representatives, and Governor of Montana voted this into law. Everyone is to receive a water meter on their well. All revenues will go to “the Tribes” as stipulated by HHS, to be managed by the Bureau of Indian affairs, and enforced by the DHS (Department of Homeland Security).

Now it is a national problem: to the tune of $2.3 billion, to come from the rest of the country.

Senator Jon Tester, D-MT is the culprit pushing the Tribes to ratify the Montana Law at the Federal level. Tester managed to lasso $3 million in Montana, and stick the state with a $55 million obligation toward this theft. Now Tester and all of the Tribes are coming after Federal Legislation to “legitimize” the compact…Congress being the one obstacle to the water grab. They know that Montana will never be able to raise that money in taxes (all of ours went up this year), therefore they’re making the move to put it in the lap of the Federal Government and obtain funding, materials, and manpower to enforce this compact, if necessary from the barrel of a gun.

The obstacle mentioned in the previous paragraph surfaced from the excellent efforts of House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop, R-UT, who had announced a new procedural change in 2015 that requires any Indian and Tribal compact regarding water to be approved and certified by the Department of the Interior and the Attorney General of the U.S. before introduction (into the U.S. House of Representatives). In addition, that introduction of a House version of the compact for a bill consideration rests with the Chairman of the Committee.

In this Democratic chess game is the potential fudge factor: The “Deadly Bishop.”

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