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The Delta Stewardship Council is preparing next week to vote on the Delta Plan, which we see as a totally inadequate effort for restoring the Delta. This is your last chance to get your statement on the public record regarding the inadequacies of the plan. The meeting will be held at Thursday, May 16, 2013 [...]
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) have released new “red flag” documents in response to the administrative draft of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). These documents identify issues with BDCP that would make the fisheries agencies unwilling to issue the necessary “take” permits for a habitat [...]
Restore the Delta Policy Analyst Jane Wagner-Tyack, said, “The Coalition for a Sustainable Delta is interested only in sustaining high levels of water exports used to grow permanent crops on arid land or to support housing and commercial development in what is essentially desert.
Governor Brown’s plan, an enormous mistake, would exterminate salmon runs, destroy sustainable Delta family farms and saddle taxpayers with tens of billions in debt, mainly to benefit a small number of huge corporate agribusinesses on the west side of the Central Valley.
“We urge you to reject these unsustainable water demands and their high public costs, and instead invest in more efficient use of our scarce water resources through cost-effective water conservation and recycling.
March 2012 Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our [...]
Under one scenario sketched by critics, customers such as the Kern Water Bank could now buy federal irrigation water from the CVP and then sell its state-delivered water to urban users and developers in Southern California.
ALL of DWR’s entries and activities under the Temporary Entry Permit (TEP) statute have been stayed by the court for the “first wave” of petitions. There should be no TEP entries going on at all now, other than where a landowner has given permission.
The third bill, H.R. 2354, was authored by Rodney Frelinghuysen of New Jersey and makes 2012 appropriations for energy and water development. It appears to fund 22 of the 23 California water-related projects proposed by President Obama’s budget. Sounds good except for an amendment to rescind the remaining balance of the San Joaquin River Restoration Fund, which would have been used to implement the San Joaquin River Settlement Agreement. This bill has passed the House.
Who’s in charge here? (1)
portions of the “Economic Sustainability Plan” are still under development. But here are some initial findings:
