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
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
November 18, 2013 Dear readers, The editorials, television clips, and articles are important items of interest. Sacramento Bee Editorial: Big Obstacle for Delta tunnel project — who will pay for it? http://www.sacbee.com/2013/11/17/5915824/editorial-big-obstacle-for-delta.html Channel 5 in SF does a special report on Kern Water Bank, the astro-turf Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, Paramount Farms, and more;...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, November 14, 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 Tunnel Opponents Ask: “Why Would We Trust Deadbeat State Agencies to Pay Billions for Seized Farmland, Habitat When They Don’t Pay for Lands Already Bought?” Brown Administration Agencies Owe Counties Millions of...Read More
For Immediate Release: Thursday, November 7, 2013 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 Sacramento Bee Viewpoints: Why I’m still confused about the proposed tunnels in the Delta By Peter Gleick Special to The Bee November 6, 2013 I and my colleagues...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, November 4, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… My Desert Sun: California water plan outlines broad goals By Ian James October 31, 2013 The state released a water plan Thursday laying out broad goals for alleviating a list...Read More
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 31, 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 State’s Draft Action Plan for Water: “Greenwashing the Water Grab” STOCKTON, CA – Restore the Delta, opponents of Gov. Brown’s Peripheral Tunnels that would drain the Delta and doom...Read More
