A Washington Post investigation in July found that state land planners had raised alarms about the deal since its start in 2015.
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The Post previously reported that aides to Hobbs prepared a memo in June recommending against renewal of the leases next year.Hobbs said Monday the state was moving immediately to terminate the one lease, covering about 640 acres, after finding that Fondomonte had failed to rectify problems previously brought to the company’s attention, including a lack of fuel containment equipment.
Fondomonte is a wholly owned subsidiary of Riyadh-based food and beverage giant Almarai, which grows water-intensive crops in other regions of the world to avoid depleting the kingdom’s limited supply of the natural resource. Since 2015, one of those regions was the Butler Valley. Agriculture is possible in the valley, smack in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, thanks only to the water drawn through wells like soda through straws.
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