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DESCRIPTION:An emergency meeting to stop the peripheral canal will be held tonight at 
 the Sierra 2 Community Center in Sacramento at 6:30 p.m.\n\nEmergency 
 Meeting to Stop the Peripheral Canal Oct. 28\n\nby Dan Bacher\n\nOrganic 
 Sacramento and Save the Delta are holding a special emergency meeting to 
 strategize on how to stop plans to build a peripheral canal and to defeat 
 the current Delta/water package being fast-tracked through the Legislature. 
 The meeting is set for October 28, at 6:30 p.m. at the Sierra 2 Community 
 Center, 2791 - 24th Street (near 4th Ave.), in Room 10 in Sacramento. 
 \n\n"We are at a critical juncture regarding the pending legislation on 
 California's water and the Delta, according to Kim Glazzard of Organic 
 Sacramento. "There is a strong push in the California legislature to pass 
 the current water bill, SB 1,   either this week or next week during their 
 special session." \n\nThe Senate Natural Resources & Water Committee and 
 Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee will convene for a joint hearing 
 on the 2009 Delta/Water Legislation today at 1 p.m. in Room 4203 of the 
 Capitol. The hearing will concentrate on bond bills and water financing 
 language.\n\n"The bill presented during this special session is as bad if 
 not worse than the bill(s) presented in the regular session - and creates 
 the road map to the construction of a peripheral canal," said Glazzard. 
 "One of the most onorous parts of this bill is the attempt to create a 
 Delta Stewardship Council composed of 4 of the Governor's appointees, 2 
 legislative appointees, and one representative from the Delta."\n\nThis 
 council will have a great deal of control over the Delta's resources, 
 including land as well as water. Since Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will 
 appoint 4 out of 7 the members of this council, he will undoubtedly appoint 
 people that support the building of a peripheral canal and care nothing 
 about the Delta, its people and its fish populations.\n\nSchwarzenegger has 
 waged a relentless campaign for the past 2-1/2 years to build a peripheral 
 canal and more dams to increase water exports to corporate agribusiness in 
 the San Joaquin Valley and southern California. He has done this in spite 
 of the fact that Central Valley salmon, Delta smelt, longfin smelt, striped 
 bass, green sturgeon and other populations have crashed to record low 
 levels in recent years, due to massive water exports and declining water 
 quality. These fish desperately need more, not less, water in the estuary 
 to stop them from becoming extinct.\n\nGoing to Restore the Delta's website 
 at www.restorethedelta.org will give you additional information regarding 
 the legislative status and the next meeting.  We need as many people to 
 attend these legislative hearings and to call Senator Steinberg's office to 
 voice opposition to this bill.\n\nThe language for the water package 
 circulated at the State Capitol last week, but Delta representatives were 
 barred from preview by Steinberg and Schwarzenegger.  \n\n"Please plan on 
 attending and spread the word about the meeting," added Glazzard. "Without 
 our water, Northern California will not be able to survive."   \n  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/28/18626989.php
SUMMARY:Emergency Meeting to Stop the Peripheral Canal
LOCATION:Sierra 2 Community Center in Sacramento
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/28/18626989.php
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