For Immediate Release: June 27, 2017 Contact: Nora Kovaleski, 408-806-6470, nora@kovaleskipr.com Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org Biological Opinion for Delta Tunnels a Milestone? “Not so fast,” say Delta protection advocates Stockton, CA–Yesterday, Jeffrey Kightlinger, general manager of the Metropolitan Water District issued a statement celebrating the federal biological opinions for CA...Read More
For Immediate Release: June 26, 2017 Contact: Nora Kovaleski, 408-806-6470, nora@kovaleskipr.com Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org Delta Tunnels Opponents: Fed Biological Opinion Ignores Best Available Science Stockton, CA – Today’s decision by the Trump Administration attempts to green light the controversial Delta Tunnels project. The decision was quickly denounced by San...Read More
For immediate release: June 22, 2017 Contact: Nora Kovaleski, 408-806-6470, nora@kovaleskipr.com Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org Delta Stewardship Council Votes to Approve Delta Plan Amendments: Fails to Meet State Mandates Sacramento, June 22–The Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) endorsed proposed conveyance and storage amendments to the Delta Plan today. For years,...Read More
Excerpt: It should be noted that with climate change droughts will be longer, and floods will be more extreme. Tunnels will not protect people or the state’s water supply. While we celebrate Brown building overseas alliances to do the hard work of mitigating climate change and reducing emissions in light of the Trump administration’s failure...Read More
Media alert: The Fight to Stop the Delta Tunnels Heats Up this Summer In case you missed it, read: Why years of waiting may be over on Delta tunnels "Love it or hate it, the Delta tunnels project is reaching a decision point." The Sacramento Bee 6/13/17 Restore the Delta, Delta advocates, and...Read More
For Immediate Release: June 5, 2017 Contact: John McManus, Golden Gate Salmon Association, 650-218-8650 Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053 Press Release: Trump Nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior Has Serious Legal, Ethical, & Conflicts-of-Interest Issues WASHINGTON, D.C. – A coalition of California fishing, conservation, and environmental groups sent a letter today outlining their concerns over the...Read More
This article is very troubling in the Associated Press. If the state does not provide oversight for Delta tunnels’ construction and operations, the Delta will be essentially colonized by outside water districts. Will water districts influence Delta land sales? Or levee maintenance in reclamation districts? How will outside water districts manage drinking water quality...Read More
The hardest part of our job is encouraging you, our members, to respond to government processes that induce weariness in even the hardiest public policy geeks in California. But that is what the Brown Administration, Metropolitan Water District, Kern County Water Agency, and Westlands are counting on: that if approvals for the Delta tunnels are...Read More
