By Dan Bacher Senator Dianne Feinstein appears ready to sign off on HR 2898, after negotiations with Central Valley House Congressmen that want to over-pump the San Francisco Bay-Delta, according to an action alert from Restore the Delta (RTD). “Californians have not seen the federal drought bill,” said RTD. “We need to make sure it does […]
By Dan Bacher Sacramento – A document obtained under a Public Records Act request reveals a “taxpayer grant” of a $17 million from the Bureau of Reclamation to the California Department of Water Resources under the Jerry Brown administration on July 30, 2015, according to a news release from Restore the Delta (RTD). Read the federal agreement here. […]
By Dan Bacher Jerry Meral, the former Brown administration’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan point man who retired from state “service” in 2013, unwittingly exposed the absurdity of the California Water Fix to build the Delta Tunnels as a “legacy” project for Governor Jerry Brown when he recently compared opponents of the tunnels to people who […]
By Dan Bacher On the same day that Californians for Water Security, the astroturf coalition established to rally support for Jerry Brown’s $15+ billion Delta Tunnels, announced they were approaching their first anniversary, a panel of experts convened by Restore the Delta revealed the alarming information that they have discovered so about the project after reading […]
By Dan Bacher The Environmental Water Caucus, a coalition including the California Sportfishing Protection Aliance (CSPA) and other fishing groups, environmental organizations, businesses and the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, recently submitted a letter to Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Interior, urging her to reject the Delta Water Tunnels. “By the end of 2015, state and federal […]
By Dan Bacher Restore the Delta has just released a letter from the Local Agencies of the North Delta and the Central Delta Water Agency objecting to “potential perjury” by state and federal officials caused by misinformation contained in the Department of Water Resources/Reclamation petition filed to divert Sacramento River water from the estuary. The […]
By Dan Bacher As Governor Jerry Brown continues to push his Delta Tunnels plan, considered by many to be the most environmentally destructive public works project in California history, opposition by the public to the multi-billion dollar plan continues to mushroom. In the latest action by Delta advocates, Restore the Delta (RTD) on August 13 […]
By Dan Bacher California has a terrible track record with giant public works projects going massively over-budget. As state officials continue to pursue their $15-billion vision of a tunnel system that shunts water to big agriculture in the south of the state, keep that history in mind. On Friday, Restore the Delta (RTD) released a […]
Restore the Delta, a coalition opposing Governor Jerry Brown’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels, has launched an action alert to oppose the Emergency Water Delivery Act (HR 3964) a wish list for heavily subsidized corporate agribusiness interests on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. This misguided power-grab threatens to […]
While over 100 protesters held signs and banners asking Governor Jerry Brown to ban fracking outside of the State Capitol in Sacramento on Wednesday, the Governor in his State of the State Address promoted the Bay Delta Conservation Plan to build the peripheral tunnels – which would funnel water OUT of Northern California – as […]
On the banks of the Sacramento River less than a mile from the State Capitol on May 30, four Members of Congress from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta region held a press conference to blast the current Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels and the lack of input afforded their constituents. […]
The Delta Protection Commission voted 9-2 on May 24 to oppose the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels as currently drafted. This is a huge victory for Delta advocates, fish, the environment and the people of California. The construction of the twin tunnels would hasten the extinction of Sacramento River chinook […]
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 […]
Next week, on the first Tuesday in November, American voters will not only choose their representatives. In many states and cities, those casting ballots will also make decisions about water supply. By Brett Walton Next week, voters in San Francisco will decide whether the city should draw up plans to end a century-old dispute over the […]
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 […]