FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 19, 2014 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Delta Tunnels Opponents to Senator Feinstein: “Here is a Better Water Resources Solution”, Accuse Senator of Listening Only to Industrial Mega-Growers STOCKTON, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents of Gov. Brown’s plan to...Read More
“Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing . . . .” — William Makepeace Thackeray Calling the water shots Behind the scenes planning by the water contractors who want the twin tunnels is bearing fruit with the formation of...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, May 16, 2014 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Delta Tunnel Opponents: Senator Feinstein Using Drought to Throw Out Protections for Fisheries, Farms & Humans; Bill Could Help Tunnels Approval Offer Better Solutions to Water Challenge Stockton, CA- Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents...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, barbara@restorethedelta.org, or stina@restorethedelta.org for a critique or for any help! To begin, download and/or view our PowerPoint. Documents numbered 2-7 are...Read More
Listen to audio from our teleconference with experts criticizing the flawed BDCP Process and Feinstein’s water bill here: Link to download or listen in separate browser. Relevant document: DWR Outline for Oversight of Design and Construction of tunnels Article of Interest East Bay Express: The Water Tunnel Boondoggle by Joaquin Palomino 5/13/14 Excerpt: “The potential...Read More
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 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 Experts Criticize Flawed BDCP Process, Feinstein Federal Rollbacks: No BDCP Implementing Agreement, Water Exporters Taking Over DWR? S 2918 Would Remove Key Protections Sacramento, CA- Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents of Gov. Brown’s rush...Read More
Media Advisory for Wednesday, May 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 Experts to Criticize Flawed BDCP Process, Feinstein Federal Rollbacks: No BDCP Implementing Agreement, S 2918 Would Remove Key Protections Sacramento, CA- Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents of Gov. Brown’s rush to build Peripheral Tunnels...Read More
Media Advisory for: Saturday, May 10, 2014 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta RTD Executive Director to present BDCP comment information at Valley Water Consortium Water Conference H2O #2 FRESNO – Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, Gov. Brown’s plan...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, May 8, 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… The Seattle Times May 5, 2014 In California drought, fortunes are made As California enters a third year of drought, agribusinesses are planting huge groves of trees, writes syndicated...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 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 Blasts LA Office Of Public Accountability BDCP Cost Analysis: Incomplete, Asks Wrong Question Failed to Consider Alternatives, Excluded Many Costs, Do LA Water Ratepayers want to Subsidize Mega-Ag? Sacramento, CA –...Read More