This week Joe Grindstaff, executive officer of the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC), announced the publication of the 6th draft of the Delta Plan, which recommends – SURPRISE! – new conveyance as the way to improve water quality in the Delta. This rubber stamp for the BDCP is not what legislators had in mind when they...Read More
Restore the Delta doesn’t like the idea of water, a public trust resource, being sold for private profit. People behind a plan to pump groundwater from under the Mojave Desert and sell it to Southern California cities are arguing that the project would lessen reliance on water from Northern California. Experience suggests it is more...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
Media Release for Monday, May 14, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.comTwitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta Consumer & Environmental Advocates to Alert Ratepayers: “MWD Will Send You the Multi-Billion Dollar Bill”; Call for Independent Cost-Benefit Analysis of Proposed Peripheral Canal or Tunnel: Who Benefits? Who Pays? Los Angeles, CA – Southern California consumer...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… Viewpoints: It’s time to compromise on Delta water projects By M. David Stirling Special to The Bee Published: Sunday, May. 13, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 5E Click here...Read More
In case you missed it… Editorial: Water contractors need to get real Published: Sunday, May. 13, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 6E Click here to read online. Managing the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta means managing expectations. So far, Gov. Jerry Brown and his water team are struggling spectacularly in that task. Since taking office, Brown...Read More
Click here to view online. Some critics are once again blasting the proposed multi-billion dollar peripheral canal project. Members of the group Restore the Delta say the canal around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is too costly and will only support big agribusiness in the San Joaquin Valley. Another group called Food and Water Watch says...Read More
Media Release for Monday, May 14, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta Restore the Delta Responds to Delta Stewardship Council’s Release of Plan: “The Fix is in for a New ‘Conveyance’” Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla Executive Director of Restore the Delta (RTD) today responded to the release of the Delta...Read More
Opinion-Editorial Co-Authored by Restore the Delta Click here to read a recent opinion-editorial piece that appeared in the Sacramento Bee, co-authored by Restore the Delta.Read More
Experts Find Bay Delta Conservation Plan Too Costly, Based on “Surplus” Water that Does Not Exist Would be Death Knell of Salmon, Billions in Water Rate Hikes On Friday a panel of experts on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta hosted a conference call with reporters to explain the numerous flaws with the Bay Delta Conservation...Read More
