The L.A. Times reports that in an effort to help boost Governor Brown’s tax initiative, Democratic legislators are preparing to remove the $11.14 billion water bond from the November ballot. The water bond was part of the 2009 Delta Reform legislation, and it was originally going to be on the 2010 ballot. Supporters of the bond keep...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 28 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta RESTORE THE DELTA NAMED 2012 FULL CIRCLE FUND GRANTEE, WILL PARTNER WITH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC & AMERICA’S CUP STOCKTON, CA – Restore the Delta announced today that it has been selected, along with eight other non-profits,...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Thirty-Six Organizations Call for “Policy before Plumbing” Ask U.S. Government to Answer 7 Questions on Peripheral Canal/Tunnel Sacramento, CA – Thirty-six California environmental, fishing and consumer advocacy groups, including the Sierra Club, Environmental Water...Read More
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Newton: Water ethics and a peripheral canal Southern California needs the water, and Northern California has it. But let’s not sacrifice the delta. By: Jim Newton June 25, 2012 Click here to read online. Jeff Hart is a scientist who knows the history of the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta better...Read More
On June 20, Resources Agency staff and consultants held one of their periodic meetings to brief the public on the progress of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). We still don’t know exactly what Governor Brown and Interior Secretary Salazar will be announcing next month in the way of conveyance in the Delta, except that...Read More
Dr. David Sunding and the Brattle Group did a good job of producing what they are being paid to produce: an economic justification for exporters to pay for BDCP and Delta conveyance. To do that, the Brattle Group had to ignore the economic effects of this project on the rest of California, including the Delta. ...Read More
The biggest difference between Sunding’s and Michael’s analyses is that Sunding’s analysis took a lot of economic credit for “regulatory certainty” under BDCP. Sunding assumed that under BDCP, exporters could make plans without having to worry about regulations changing in response to changing conditions. Now remember that decision tree? Resources Secretary Jerry Meral said there’s...Read More
If the decision tree led to different water supply yields, they could, said Meral, augment water supplies by buying upstream. With this strategy, irrigators in the north are paid to use less of the water they have rights to so that those in the south can use more. What often happens is that irrigators in...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Restore the Delta: BDCP Plus “Defies Common Sense” Would impose 75% of cost on LA ratepayers, for 25% of water Sacramento, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD) today told the Resources Agency that the...Read More
Dear Friends, Sometime between the middle and the end of July, Governor Brown will announce a plan to proceed with building tunnel conveyance under the Delta – the current version of the Peripheral Canal that voters defeated with a referendum in 1982. We are asking our supporters to write a letter to the Governor urging...Read More
