When Alex Hildebrand passed away in January, Restore the Delta heard from dozens of people who wanted to participate in the comments that we made about Alex’s life and work. While many of those comments were sincere and praised Alex’s fine accomplishments in ways that we did not, we resisted making further commentary because we...Read More
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.comTwitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta THIRTY-EIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL, FISHING, CONSUMER ADVOCATES TO U.S. INTERIOR SECRETARY: “ENORMOUS MISTAKE” IN THE OFFING WITH PERIPHERAL CANAL/TUNNEL SACRAMENTO, CA – Restore the Delta today released a letter from thirty-eight environmental, fishing, consumer, Native American and other groups...Read More
Recently, 18 south-of-the-Delta and Southern California senators and assembly members wrote a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Resources Secretary John Laird, and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor complaining about delays in the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) process. They said the process has been open and transparent (not true); that the threat of...Read More
The Hanford Sentinel reports that Kings County agriculture had a record-setting year in 2011. The annual crop report showed an agricultural output of $2.2 billion, considerably higher than the previous record of $1.76 billion set in 2007, before the recent drought. One crop that saw a major rebound was cotton, which jumped from $244 million...Read More
This week, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) had a meeting to introduce its new publication, “Water and the California Economy.” This publication was funded (as the PPIC’s other water-related think-tank efforts have been) by the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, which has an ongoing interest in the kinds of analysis that make Delta...Read More
Also this week, the Delta Vision Foundation presented its 2012 Report Card assessing progress on implementation of the Delta Vision Strategic Plan, assigning letter grades in seven categories which it analyzes. Only in “Governance” was a B grade assigned, and that decreased to B- from the previous year’s B+. Four of the categories received lower...Read More
SB 250, Senator Mark Rubio’s bill calling for the completion of the BDCP process by 2013, and construction of the canal by 2025, has been moved up for hearing in the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee to June 12, 2012. Please send a letter today to Committee Chair, Jared Huffman, explaining why rushing this...Read More
Voters will kill a peripheral canal Bill Jennings Thursday, June 7, 2012 San Francisco Chronicle, click here to read at SFGate.com. We share The Chronicle’s view that a peripheral canal is a bad idea, but we disagree that its construction is inevitable. Gov. Jerry Brown and federal officials might be attempting to persuade the public...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… San Francisco Chronicle: California Peripheral canal coming soon Published Sunday, June 3, 2012. Click here to read online. While the future of a proposed high-speed railroad to move people in California...Read More
