Media Advisory for Thursday, April 4, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.comTwitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Peripheral Tunnel Opponents to Hold “Death of Delta” Funeral Protest Brown Administration’s Refusal to Consider Alternatives; Present Coffin to Peripheral Tunnel Proponents Opponents of Gov. Jerry Brown’s rush to build Peripheral Tunnels that would drain the Delta...Read More
We’re indebted to Dr. Jeff Michael of UOP’s Business Forecasting Center for pointing out how the recent State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) hearings on San Joaquin River flows are reminiscent of the Hunger Games in Suzanne Collins’ bestselling novels. (See Dr. Michael’s March 21 blog posting.) While “relatively small farmers represented by relatively small...Read More
In our last newsletter, we mentioned that the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) is taking credit for habitat conservation work that is going forward anyway, whether or not BDCP is approved by state and federal fisheries agencies. Melinda Terry of the North Delta Water Agency raised this issue regarding Conservation Measure 2, Yolo Bypass Fisheries...Read More
On the afternoon of March 20, while the Water Board and BDCP were holding meetings at which the concerns of Delta residents were being spectacularly ignored, the California Water Commission was hearing from DWR about why they should consider and, presumably, adopt an amendment to the Resolutions of Necessity underlying the pending eminent domain actions...Read More
Corresponding with release of the first chapters of the BDCP administrative draft, the Department of Water Resources has released a video “describing the ecological and economic importance of the Delta and the basic elements of the BDCP.” (The video is posted on DWR’s spotlight archive. ) DWR put together this 10-minute video and managed to...Read More
On March 20, Richard Stapler, Deputy Director of Communications for the California Natural Resources Agency, blogged on March 20 that hydraulic fracturing for oil extraction (fracking) in California uses just 8 acre feet of water per year. Seems they checked a random sample of 30 hydraulically fractured wells, averaged the amount of water used by...Read More
The Delta has just lost two people who valued it and worked to help others appreciate it’s importance. Filmmaker Bruce Tokars reached millions of Californians with his videos for Salmon Water Now. Bruce was relentless in his efforts to show how the greed and corruption of a wealthy few are damaging the Delta, Estuary, and...Read More
