FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Gov. Brown’s Tunnel Implementation Plan Lacks Answers: Who will pay? Users Claim to Pay, But No Commitment Yet Made on Finances or Operations 60 Days Left but Governor Brown’s peripheral tunnels project still lacks...Read More
Planning to submit a public comment or need guidance? Missed and attended our BDCP Letter Writing Party on 5/13/14? Here are all the materials we used. Feel free to send your letters to jane@restorethedelta.org, barbara@restorethedelta.org, or stina@restorethedelta.org for a critique or for any help! Deadline for BDCP Public Comment on Draft and EIR/S has now...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, April 14, 2014 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… KPCC Southern California Public Radio and The Center for Responsive Politics The politics of drought: California water interest prime the pump in Washington Kitty Felde and Viveca Novak April...Read More
UPDATE: New working links are provided and deadlines have recently been changed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Follow the links below for where to send your written comment. Need more background on proposed Delta barriers? Read our article by our policy analyst, Jane Wagner-Tyack or this Sacramento Bee article. ■ Submit comments to...Read More
“Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.” – Howard Zinn Articles What did they know? And When did they know it? Old news worth another look And independent scientists say…. And environmental groups across the board agree… What did they know? And When did they know it? In retrospect, state and federal...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, April 7, 2014 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Restore the Delta, Experts: Gov. Brown’s Tunnels Force Byron Relocation; Sen. Feinstein’s Pumping Bill “Reckless” Listen to audio from our teleconference: STOCKTON, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents of Gov. Brown’s plan to...Read More
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Monday, April 7, 2014 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Restore the Delta, Experts: Governor Brown's Tunnels Would Force Relocation of Byron residents; Permanently Degrade Groundwater; Senator Feinstein’s Pumping Bill “Reckless” Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents of Gov. Brown’s plan to build...Read More
INTRODUCING THE TOP 1% WATER TAKERS: Water subsidies, cotton subsidies, and the corporate agribusiness elite 1% Starrh & Starrh Cotton Growers: $10 million in Taxpayer Subsidies Behind the Tears We all pay for cotton and almonds planted in the desert, Legal water purchases and crop subsidies form a broken system Corporate agribusiness tycoons take taxpayer-subsidized...Read More
