Month

December 2012
Just when we think the situation with Central Valley agriculture is a complicated as it can get (Who farms what and where?  Who buys what is grown?  How does all that affect soil, water, air, and people?), we learn about another player: specialized investors and large pension funds buying up farmland. The LA Times reports...
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Restore the Delta will give geotechnical engineer Robert Pyke the last word this year on meeting the co-equal goals for the Delta.  This is not because we know with certainty his Western Delta Intakes alternative is necessarily THE answer.  We don’t have the data yet to take a stand.  But it is a thoughtful alternative...
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For Immediate Release: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com  Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Restore the Delta in Full Support of Redrafting Water Bond; Applauds Senator Wolk’s SB 42 SACRAMENTO—Restore the Delta today applauded Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) for introducing SB 42, The California Clean, Secure, Water Supply and...
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In November, Fish Agencies made a presentation to a group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) outlining how the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) could be operated to benefit fish. However, the study they presented hasn’t gotten much publicity. That’s probably because it would be very difficult to operate BDCP to actually benefit fish. The Fish Agencies...
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BDCP has published a fact sheet  congratulating themselves on coming up with a “21st Century Strategy” that is a big improvement on last century’s peripheral canal plan. For readers who missed Restore the Delta’s full response, here are some salient points: 35 miles of tunnel are less of an eyesore than 43 miles of open...
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For Immediate Release: Thursday, December 6, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com  Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Peripheral Tunnel Opponents Debunk State’s Effort to Distance New Project from Peripheral Canal New Project is Massive, Costly and Flawed Just Like the Old Project, BDCP is NOT a 21st Century Strategy but more like...
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“Over Troubled Waters”: Selected as Best Documentary Short in the Nevada Film Festival Over Troubled Waters, a documentary about the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, has been selected as a winner in the Nevada Film Festival for Best Documentary Short. “We are pleased and honored to have been selected as a winner for the Nevada Film Festival,”...
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