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upon setting aside more and more land for preservation. Without going into the myriad of reasons why the Clintons' environmental policy is doomed to fail, it is enough to say that it stifled the development of both the Channel and its green technologies, all during their administration. Fortunately, for the people of the United States, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger did not view the Channel, and its green technologies, with the same disdain, closed mindedness, and set of predetermined misconceptions, that the Clintons did.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was first made aware of NORC's Channel Proposal by DR. Abe Beagles on August 18, 2005. Dr. Beagles and a team of six international scientists had done an extensive reclamation study to see if either Electro-coagulation or the Plasma Incubator Reactor System, a revolutionary desalination process, could restore the Salton Sea.The report was then delivered to the Governor in 2003. Shortly after his personal examination and meetings with key individuals, throughout the United States and Mexico, he soon became convinced of both its validity and its potential but, was forewarned by the California Legislature against releasing it to the public until further, more thorough, examination by them. He acquiesced to their experienced judgment, in part. Indirectly, though, on January 5, 2006, he released, the Channel's income potential, and some other aspects, in his State of the State address. In spite of the Legislature's continued apprehension, he personally saw the need for immediate assistance, and did personally assist, in the development of the Channel, and its green technologies. Were it not for Governor Schwarzenegger's bold leadership and early commitment to the Channel, and its green technologies, the Channel, and those technologies, may never have been developed, as they were, by United States citizens.
Throughout the following two years, the Governor only hinted, in public, about the forthcoming green technologies but, it wasn't until his most recent State of the State address, on January 8, 2008, that he began to unveil the Channel. Therein, he revealed the need to re-build (to modernize) California's antiquated water production and distribution system. In a recent February 08 meeting with President Calderon of Mexico, a joint agreement was reached that included this "Green Technolgy" in their restoration plans for both Mexico and California. He also revealed the need for the private sector to build the new

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