For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 30, 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 Bond Campaign Source, “Polling showing today that bond that’s on the 2014 ballot would go down pretty dramatically.” Points to Opposition to Damaging Delta as Key Cause What now that Gov. Brown can’t...Read More
For Immediate Release: Monday, October 28, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Brown Administration Funding Statewide Propaganda Campaign to Sell Peripheral Tunnels: Community Groups are Paid Agents, PR FirmsSTOCKTON, CA – Restore the Delta, opponents of Gov. Brown’s rush to build Peripheral Tunnels that would drain...Read More
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 24, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053; barbara@restorethedelta.org;Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Stockton School Students Create Display: The Death of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – R.I.P. Save the Delta – Stop the Tunnels! STOCKTON, CA – Students from grades four through eight at Stockton’s Kohl Open School,...Read More
Then, earlier this month, the State Water Resources Control Board sent a notice to Diverters of Surface Water alerting them to lower-than-average storage levels in reservoirs resulting from two years of record dry and warm conditions. “For 2013,” they note, “the combined total precipitation for the months of January through May is the driest in...Read More
Friends of the River (FOR) has sent a comment letter to officers and staff of federal agencies – the Bureau of Reclamation, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) – alerting them to “foundational violations of law and fundamental analytical deficiencies in the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP)...Read More
Restore the Delta Release New YouTube Video: “Find out the real story behind Peripheral Tunnels” SACRAMENTO, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD), a 10,000-member grassroots organization committed to making the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta fishable, swimmable, drinkable, and farmable benefiting all of California, today announced the launch of a new YouTube video. “The Brown Administration is...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Westlands Water District Masquerades as “Tea Party”; One of Largest “Corporate Welfare” Recipients Fears Being Exposed by “Over Troubled Waters” Film Stockton, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD), a coalition of farmers, fishermen, environmentalists and...Read More
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.comTwitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta THIRTY-EIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL, FISHING, CONSUMER ADVOCATES TO U.S. INTERIOR SECRETARY: “ENORMOUS MISTAKE” IN THE OFFING WITH PERIPHERAL CANAL/TUNNEL SACRAMENTO, CA – Restore the Delta today released a letter from thirty-eight environmental, fishing, consumer, Native American and other groups...Read More
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla barbara@restorethedelta.org; 209/479-2053; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Funders With Self-Interests Continue to Direct The PPIC Conversation: Bechtel Funds Studies that (Surprise!) Support Peripheral Canal/Tunnel Bechtel Wants to Build Sacramento, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD) today questioned the influence of special interest...Read More
Media Alert, May 18, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta Los Angeles environmental & consumer groups support cost benefit analysis of canal Please click on the following link to hear a KPFA and KPFK radio report on why Southern Californians are demanding a cost benefit analysis of the...Read More
