CALIFORNIANS FOR A FAIR WATER POLICY No Wasteful Water Projects No Tunnels! http://www.stopthetunnels.org For Immediate Release Monday, December 9, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft; Contacts for all participating groups below. Farmers, Fishermen, Environmentalists & Consumers Launch Campaign Against BDCP Tunnels: Too Costly, Create No New Water, Better Solutions Available $50 billion Boondoggle...Read More
CALIFORNIANS FOR A FAIR WATER POLICY No Wasteful Water Projects No Tunnels! http://www.stopthetunnels.org Media Advisory for Monday, December 9, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft Farmers, Fishermen, Taxpayers, Environmentalists & Consumer Advocates to Oppose Governor’s Water Export Tunnels: Too Costly, Creates No New Water, Better Solutions Available $50 billion Boondoggle – Urban Families...Read More
Dear Friends, We thought that you would enjoy this article of interest from the Sacramento Bee. “Delta water tunnel project needs $1.2 billion more for planning” –Sacramento Bee /Merced Sun Star — “Known as the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, the proposal calls for two huge tunnels, 40 feet in diameter and 35 miles long, that would divert freshwater out of the …” Click...Read More
For Immediate Release: Friday, December 6, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Water Tunnels Opponents Release Charts: Urban Ratepayers Get the Higher Bill, Huge Agribusiness Gets More Water Call on Gov. Brown not to Force Families, Businesses to Pay for Billionaire Growers STOCKTON, CA – Restore...Read More
“All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.” – Max Beerbohm The Pole Barn and other earthquake fantasies Those of you who listened to the entire November 18 presentation to the Redding City Council by Dr. Jerry Meral will have heard about the Pole Barn with the Floating Poles. Aha! you may have said...Read More
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We don’t want to put words in your mouth (and besides, form letters to politicians are somewhat less effective than those that are personalized). But, we need you to send Governor Jerry Brown a letter expressing your opposition to the peripheral tunnels and the Bay Delta Conservation Plan in time for the December 13, 2013...Read More
“Much of this is based on engineering science rather than experience.” – Dr. Jerry Meral on the subject of earthquakes in the Delta Boring financial details The Department of Water Resources (DWR) told Westlands Water District that it would need $162 million from them over the next three years for pre-construction planning for the Bay...Read More
For Immediate Release: Friday, November 22, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Peripheral Tunnels Opponents Respond to USGS Report on Subsidence: Tunnels will do NOTHING to Address Threat to Valley; Water Takers Weren’t Supposed to Plant Permanent Crops STOCKTON, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents...Read More
