On September 19, in morning remarks (read here) to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar tied Delta conveyance to the Administration’s jobs plan (which is of course also tied to the 2012 presidential election). “In Washington, Congress needs to pass the American Jobs Act and put people back to work right...Read More

While Salazar was speaking in San Francisco to a select group of people who could afford the time to be there, the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) was holding a workshop in Sacramento on the Economic Sustainability Plan & Delta as an Evolving Place. The DSC is holding workshops on different Delta topics, presumably to allow...Read More

The DSC expressed an interest in hearing what it could do to in the next five years about agriculture, recreation, natural resources, risk reduction, and anything else anyone wanted to mention. Those speaking on behalf of the Delta included Melinda Terry of the North Delta Water Agency; Pete Kutras representing the Delta Counties Coalition; Katie...Read More

A representative of the State Water Contractors suggested growing tules to recreate peat on some Delta islands and getting credit for carbon sequestration.  It was noted that tules aren’t an ag commodity and that there is still no market for carbon sequestration.  But DWR could try it on their land. The water contractors see a...Read More