The latest shenanigans By now, we all know that Governor Brown will soon announce a plan to build a tunnel under the Delta and worry about habitat later. The Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), on which $250 million has already been spent, is trailing along behind, with the document itself and an environmental impact report...Read More
For Immediate Release: Friday, May 25, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla barbara@restorethedelta.org; 209/479-2053; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Consumer, Environmental Advocates Call for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Peripheral Canal/Tunnel Despite AB 2421 Defeat How Much Would Water Rates Rise? Who Benefits? Sacramento, CA – Consumer and environmental advocates responded to the failure of the...Read More
For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 24, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.comTwitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta BUILD IT, THEN SEE IF IT WORKS – HUH? Gov. Brown Plans to Ram Peripheral Canal through, Ignore Science in Most Expensive Public Works Project Would be Salmon Death Knell, Cost Consumers Billions in Water Rate Hikes...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… California Progress Report Metropolitan Water District Will Send You the Multi-Billion Dollar Bill By Conner Everts, Southern California Watershed Alliance, and Adam Scow, Food & Water Watch Published on 21...Read More
This week Joe Grindstaff, executive officer of the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC), announced the publication of the 6th draft of the Delta Plan, which recommends – SURPRISE! – new conveyance as the way to improve water quality in the Delta. This rubber stamp for the BDCP is not what legislators had in mind when they...Read More
Restore the Delta doesn’t like the idea of water, a public trust resource, being sold for private profit. People behind a plan to pump groundwater from under the Mojave Desert and sell it to Southern California cities are arguing that the project would lessen reliance on water from Northern California. Experience suggests it is more...Read More
Media Alert, May 18, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta Los Angeles environmental & consumer groups support cost benefit analysis of canal Please click on the following link to hear a KPFA and KPFK radio report on why Southern Californians are demanding a cost benefit analysis of the...Read More
Media Release for Monday, May 14, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.comTwitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta Consumer & Environmental Advocates to Alert Ratepayers: “MWD Will Send You the Multi-Billion Dollar Bill”; Call for Independent Cost-Benefit Analysis of Proposed Peripheral Canal or Tunnel: Who Benefits? Who Pays? Los Angeles, CA – Southern California consumer...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… Viewpoints: It’s time to compromise on Delta water projects By M. David Stirling Special to The Bee Published: Sunday, May. 13, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 5E Click here...Read More
In case you missed it… Editorial: Water contractors need to get real Published: Sunday, May. 13, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 6E Click here to read online. Managing the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta means managing expectations. So far, Gov. Jerry Brown and his water team are struggling spectacularly in that task. Since taking office, Brown...Read More
