How out-of-step is Governor Jerry Brown, when it comes to his destructive water polices for the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas? The Sierra Club of California has called on Brown to abandon his position on the construction of twin peripheral tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a policy that would harm [...]
What’s for Christmas dinner? How about some Frankenfish?
December 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a draft environmental assessment (EA) finding, in spite of much evidence to the contrary, that genetically engineered (GE) AquaAdvantage salmon pose no risk to the environment. The document claimed that the fish “will not have any significant impacts on the quality of the human environment of [...]
Shocking long-term study reveals massive tumors in rats fed GMOs
September 19, 2012 by 6 Comments
In the first ever peer-reviewed, long-term animal study of Genetically Modified (GMO) food, genetically engineered corn has been linked to mammary tumors, kidney and liver damage and other serious illnesses in rats. The study examined the long-term effects of Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller and NK603 Roundup-resistant GM maize. “Scientists found that rats exposed to even the [...]
California’s peripheral canal – not yet in the bag
September 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
While the state and federal governments have doubled down on a water-sucking peripheral canal that would be a boon for big agribusiness and Southern California, other state officials are emphasizing that it’s not yet a done deal. The California Natural Resources Agency on August 29 held the first public meeting of the Bay Delta Conservation [...]
Muddying the waters of California’s marine protection mess
August 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Jason Scorse, the director of the new Center for the Blue Economy at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the author of What Environmentalists Need to Know about Economics, has written an interesting opinion piece in the Oakland Tribune discussing the economic value of the coast to the California economy and the need to [...]
Californians have no idea what they’re getting themselves into
August 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Will Southern Californians learn from the costly mistakes of their neighbors, or will they be pushed into a massive, costly water project that will do more harm than any possible good? An LA Times editorial, Give the Bay Delta Conservation Plan a chance, uses a typical straw-man argument, accusing critics of the proposed tunnel of over-the-top [...]
Applause for Brown’s water-stealing tunnel (from the companies that will make millions)
August 2, 2012 by 1 Comment
California Governor Jerry Brown got some backing for his plan to ship water to big agriculture and Southern California sprawl. But the source shouldn’t come as a surprise: it’s the American Council of Engineering Companies, California (ACEC California). But Delta advocates disagree strongly with ACEC California’s rosy assessment of Brown’s peripheral tunnel plan, noting that [...]
Opposition grows as Jerry Brown announces plan for water-stealing tunnel
July 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Over 300 people, including fishermen, environmentalists, family farmers, and a large contingent of members of the Winnemem Wintu, Pit River, Hoopa Valley and Miwok Tribes, protested Wednesday’s announcement by Governor Jerry Brown and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to fast track the plan to build the peripheral tunnels around the California Delta. During a press conference [...]
Has California’s peripheral canal been downsized? Not so much.
June 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Delta advocates dismissed claims made by the Brown administration that the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral canal or tunnel is being downsized. Restore the Delta slammed the administration for issuing a revised plan to construct a peripheral canal or tunnel without a cost-benefit analysis and without completing scientific studies in order [...]
California’s marine protector pushes for more offshore drilling, less regulation
June 19, 2012 by 2 Comments
Catherine Reheis-Boyd, a big oil lobbyist who served as the Chair of the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Blue Ribbon Task Force for the South Coast, has been very busy lately. After overseeing the implementation of so called marine protected areas that now ban kayak anglers and other sustainable fishermen from large areas of Southern [...]
