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Your Presence Needed at Agricultural Waiver Hearing on Thursday!
Here's the latest action alert and update on the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board hearing on the issue of agricultural waivers. We need a huge turnout there!
This Thursday is the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board hearing on the issue of agriculture waivers. We now have over 100 groups opposing the proposed waiver program. We must be present to tell the Regional Board not to allow farmers to pay to pollute!
Now we need to show the Regional Board that California organizations from many different backgrounds and representing many different interests have come together, that we are adamantly opposed to Ag Waivers and adversely impacted by farm pollution.
When you get to the hearing. Look for a grey pickup, parked in front of the entrance, with the Deltakeeper banner. We'll have a sign-in sheet, talking points and comment cards ready-to-go. The press conference is at 9am--so be there by 8:30 am to help us meet critical mass.
We will have carpools going to Rancho Cordova from Stockton Thursday morning, and will be bringing signs, talking points, and refreshments. Bring extra signs and food if you can.
RSVP and call Katie for details at 209 464 5090 or, on that day, call Carrie at 916-952-2185!
Thank you! Carrie McNeil, Katie Hopkins, Dezaraye Bagalayos at Deltakeeper
Action Alert: The Regional Water Board will be voting on another waiver for irrigated agriculture which would allow 8 million acres of farmland to keep polluting our waters with pesticides and fertilizers without any accountability. We are going to the hearing in Rancho Cordova to let the Board know it is time to protect the public's interest--not just the interest of big, corporate agriculture.
We know irrigated agriculture is polluting--the Board's own studies show pesticides rampant in the Delta. We know the "waiver" program that the Board has used the last three years has been a huge failure--just as we predicted it would be.
Regulators can't tell where pollution is coming from, don't know the identities of the farmers in the system and so--nothing is done to make the bad actors change management practices...the result is continued, basically unregulated pollution. The new proposed waiver is even WEAKER.
We're bringing folks from Visalia to Redding from groups representing fishermen, health groups, labor, conservationists, environmental justice groups--many of whom are sacrificing a day's pay to be there. Let us know if you need help organzing your own members, or drafting comments for testimony.
When: Arrive by 8am so the boardmembers will pass through us on their way in. At noon, we'll break for lunch and a press conference. The hearing itself will go til at least early afternoon. If you have to leave at noon, we'll put a note on your comment card.
RSVP: to Katie, katie [at] baykeeper.org or 209 464 5090
Your participation is crucial to impacting this nationally-significant
water quality policy. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Sincerely,
Carrie McNeil and Katie Hopkins
Deltakeeper Chapter of Baykeeper
Bill Jennings, executive director
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance
John Beuttler, spokesman
Allied Fishing Groups
Now we need to show the Regional Board that California organizations from many different backgrounds and representing many different interests have come together, that we are adamantly opposed to Ag Waivers and adversely impacted by farm pollution.
When you get to the hearing. Look for a grey pickup, parked in front of the entrance, with the Deltakeeper banner. We'll have a sign-in sheet, talking points and comment cards ready-to-go. The press conference is at 9am--so be there by 8:30 am to help us meet critical mass.
We will have carpools going to Rancho Cordova from Stockton Thursday morning, and will be bringing signs, talking points, and refreshments. Bring extra signs and food if you can.
RSVP and call Katie for details at 209 464 5090 or, on that day, call Carrie at 916-952-2185!
Thank you! Carrie McNeil, Katie Hopkins, Dezaraye Bagalayos at Deltakeeper
Action Alert: The Regional Water Board will be voting on another waiver for irrigated agriculture which would allow 8 million acres of farmland to keep polluting our waters with pesticides and fertilizers without any accountability. We are going to the hearing in Rancho Cordova to let the Board know it is time to protect the public's interest--not just the interest of big, corporate agriculture.
We know irrigated agriculture is polluting--the Board's own studies show pesticides rampant in the Delta. We know the "waiver" program that the Board has used the last three years has been a huge failure--just as we predicted it would be.
Regulators can't tell where pollution is coming from, don't know the identities of the farmers in the system and so--nothing is done to make the bad actors change management practices...the result is continued, basically unregulated pollution. The new proposed waiver is even WEAKER.
We're bringing folks from Visalia to Redding from groups representing fishermen, health groups, labor, conservationists, environmental justice groups--many of whom are sacrificing a day's pay to be there. Let us know if you need help organzing your own members, or drafting comments for testimony.
When: Arrive by 8am so the boardmembers will pass through us on their way in. At noon, we'll break for lunch and a press conference. The hearing itself will go til at least early afternoon. If you have to leave at noon, we'll put a note on your comment card.
RSVP: to Katie, katie [at] baykeeper.org or 209 464 5090
Your participation is crucial to impacting this nationally-significant
water quality policy. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Sincerely,
Carrie McNeil and Katie Hopkins
Deltakeeper Chapter of Baykeeper
Bill Jennings, executive director
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance
John Beuttler, spokesman
Allied Fishing Groups
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Other side issues that relate to watershed protection;
Pesticide (or biotech genetically engineered pollen) from plantation agriculture drifts far on windy days and also impacts organic farmers who are certified organic, consumers of organic produce, etc..
By decreasing the uneccesary economic demands on small farms to remain in business or lose land to developers, it is needed that small farmers be given more leeway to remain operational despite years of low yield. This would encourage small farmers to decrease heavy applications of petrochemical pesticides, fertlizers and adopt more sustainable methods (slow release organic fertilizer, beneficial insects, experiment with crop diversity, etc..) instead of huffing and puffing on the pesticide treadmill. It would be interesting to discover the impact of petrochemical manufacturers on maintaining the addiction to toxic pesticides..
Suburban sprawl also depends on fertilizers and other petrochemical herbicide inputs to maintain those nice green monoculture lawns (yuck)..
http://www.foodnotlawns.com/
Some other resources about the impact of development in low lying regions, wetlands, river floodplains, etc..
http://www.uchastings.edu/site_files/cslgl/Arreola.pdf
Above site details the case where James Arreola et. al. vs. County of Monterey for placing people at risk by allowing development in known floodplains. Levees are not reliable sources of protection when developers choose to build homes in floodplains. This is not new info, just suppressed by corporate media that favors developers short term profits over ecology..
National Academy of Science panel concluded "it is short-sighted and foolish to regard even the most reliable levee system as fail-safe" in their 1982 report. Now following the Katrina disaster, Sacramento Valley developers and their political mouthpieces intend to make California residents suffer from a similar tragedy in the near future. Woodland's former mayor Matt Rexroad intends to welcome suburban sprawl corporations (Target) east of Pole Line Rd. where Cache Creek enters the Yolo bypass wetlands. Any non-point source pollution and runoff from the parking lot, fertilizer on lawns, etc.. will enter the watershed from this sprawl. In addition, the displacement of wetlands by suburban sprawl will increase the risks of flooding elswhere in Woodland. This is only one example of many, homeowners in Natomas already got fooled by developers who bribed politicians into changing the designation from floodplain to a safe zone for building. What people may not realize is that just because developers and politicians change the name from floodplain to safe zone, does not mean that Madre Tierra is in agreement..
Yolo County as a whole is under attack by developers including Target (Davis and Woodland) Magna Entertainment Corporation (Dixon) and many others including our favorite big box sweatshop distribution retail giant Wal-mart..
People are considering an Sacramento Valley Earth First! collective to address these issues with some non-violent direct action. Eventually also a sister collective, San Joaquin Valley Earth First! to address similar problems in the southern half of the central valley. The new sacramento central valley imc network would be a great place to begin discussions of possible actions..
One suggestion is a protest in front of Matt Rexroad's home or office in Woodland. This career criminal has attacked anti-sprawl candidate Brenda Cedarblade in many ways, hacking her email, posting threats and possible poisoning her pet dog. Matt Rexroad also is under investigation by the FBI for breaking into and stealing files from South San Joaquin Irrigation District while his Meridian Pacific Inc. was working for PG&E..
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=oid%3A44248
Now Rexroad is blaming PG&E or is it vice-versa? Either way neither the energy monopoly PG&E nor Rexroad's Meridian Pacific is willing to take the responsibility for breaking and entering each pointing the finger at one another. Notice Arnold in the background wishing this spat among his Republican friends would just go away. Well it won't..
Rexroad is directly responsible for the recent "Measure A" in Woodland that he deceitfully termed "Urban Limit Line" and attempted to pass off as environemntally friendly protection. In reality Rexroad's Measure A expands the already existing ULL further east into existing farmlands and wetlands. To avoid misleading voters Measure A should have been named Urban Expansion Line because that is what the outcome of measure A does..
Matt Rexroad's campaign funding comes from Sacramento's wealthiest suburban sprawl developers. Even Arnold is afraid to be associated with this overt criminal politician. The Republican's house of cards are tumbling down and Arnold the Actor doesn't want to fall along with the rest of his cronies like Rexroad. Sort of like the Abramoff/Delay/Doolittle/Pombo campaign finance scandal, Rexroad will bring down a few developers when he hits bottom..
SVEF! will begin online protest of Matt Rexroad and bring attention to his deceitful activities..
Rexroad's website;
http://rexroad.com/
Matt Rexroad
711 College Street,
Woodland, CA 95695
(530) 662-5232
matt [at] rexroad.com
Will announce any protests or direct action in front of Rexroad's office address on this (cv) imc. SVEF! pledges to remain non-violent and law abiding in this case to prevent distracting the FBI from their investigation of Rexroad's theft of SSJID documents, murder of animals, stalking, harrassment, etc..
Earth First! call to action;
http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/articles.php?a=904
"The time is long overdue for radical ecologists to move climate change to the forefront of our actions. Our love for wild places and the traditional focus of EF! activities on place-based actions blinds us to the fact that the single greatest threat to biodiversity is no longer in the forests, deserts, mountains or seas, but on the highways, in the coalfields and factories, and on the industrial ranchlands.
Moreover, climate chaos has strong connections to nearly every contemporary social movement, and as such it provides an important and under-utilized avenue for bringing a biocentric analysis to many societal problems. Equally important, climate action is inextricably linked to global corporate control, presenting important opportunities for campaigning that go beyond political lobbying and reform."
Pesticide (or biotech genetically engineered pollen) from plantation agriculture drifts far on windy days and also impacts organic farmers who are certified organic, consumers of organic produce, etc..
By decreasing the uneccesary economic demands on small farms to remain in business or lose land to developers, it is needed that small farmers be given more leeway to remain operational despite years of low yield. This would encourage small farmers to decrease heavy applications of petrochemical pesticides, fertlizers and adopt more sustainable methods (slow release organic fertilizer, beneficial insects, experiment with crop diversity, etc..) instead of huffing and puffing on the pesticide treadmill. It would be interesting to discover the impact of petrochemical manufacturers on maintaining the addiction to toxic pesticides..
Suburban sprawl also depends on fertilizers and other petrochemical herbicide inputs to maintain those nice green monoculture lawns (yuck)..
http://www.foodnotlawns.com/
Some other resources about the impact of development in low lying regions, wetlands, river floodplains, etc..
http://www.uchastings.edu/site_files/cslgl/Arreola.pdf
Above site details the case where James Arreola et. al. vs. County of Monterey for placing people at risk by allowing development in known floodplains. Levees are not reliable sources of protection when developers choose to build homes in floodplains. This is not new info, just suppressed by corporate media that favors developers short term profits over ecology..
National Academy of Science panel concluded "it is short-sighted and foolish to regard even the most reliable levee system as fail-safe" in their 1982 report. Now following the Katrina disaster, Sacramento Valley developers and their political mouthpieces intend to make California residents suffer from a similar tragedy in the near future. Woodland's former mayor Matt Rexroad intends to welcome suburban sprawl corporations (Target) east of Pole Line Rd. where Cache Creek enters the Yolo bypass wetlands. Any non-point source pollution and runoff from the parking lot, fertilizer on lawns, etc.. will enter the watershed from this sprawl. In addition, the displacement of wetlands by suburban sprawl will increase the risks of flooding elswhere in Woodland. This is only one example of many, homeowners in Natomas already got fooled by developers who bribed politicians into changing the designation from floodplain to a safe zone for building. What people may not realize is that just because developers and politicians change the name from floodplain to safe zone, does not mean that Madre Tierra is in agreement..
Yolo County as a whole is under attack by developers including Target (Davis and Woodland) Magna Entertainment Corporation (Dixon) and many others including our favorite big box sweatshop distribution retail giant Wal-mart..
People are considering an Sacramento Valley Earth First! collective to address these issues with some non-violent direct action. Eventually also a sister collective, San Joaquin Valley Earth First! to address similar problems in the southern half of the central valley. The new sacramento central valley imc network would be a great place to begin discussions of possible actions..
One suggestion is a protest in front of Matt Rexroad's home or office in Woodland. This career criminal has attacked anti-sprawl candidate Brenda Cedarblade in many ways, hacking her email, posting threats and possible poisoning her pet dog. Matt Rexroad also is under investigation by the FBI for breaking into and stealing files from South San Joaquin Irrigation District while his Meridian Pacific Inc. was working for PG&E..
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=oid%3A44248
Now Rexroad is blaming PG&E or is it vice-versa? Either way neither the energy monopoly PG&E nor Rexroad's Meridian Pacific is willing to take the responsibility for breaking and entering each pointing the finger at one another. Notice Arnold in the background wishing this spat among his Republican friends would just go away. Well it won't..
Rexroad is directly responsible for the recent "Measure A" in Woodland that he deceitfully termed "Urban Limit Line" and attempted to pass off as environemntally friendly protection. In reality Rexroad's Measure A expands the already existing ULL further east into existing farmlands and wetlands. To avoid misleading voters Measure A should have been named Urban Expansion Line because that is what the outcome of measure A does..
Matt Rexroad's campaign funding comes from Sacramento's wealthiest suburban sprawl developers. Even Arnold is afraid to be associated with this overt criminal politician. The Republican's house of cards are tumbling down and Arnold the Actor doesn't want to fall along with the rest of his cronies like Rexroad. Sort of like the Abramoff/Delay/Doolittle/Pombo campaign finance scandal, Rexroad will bring down a few developers when he hits bottom..
SVEF! will begin online protest of Matt Rexroad and bring attention to his deceitful activities..
Rexroad's website;
http://rexroad.com/
Matt Rexroad
711 College Street,
Woodland, CA 95695
(530) 662-5232
matt [at] rexroad.com
Will announce any protests or direct action in front of Rexroad's office address on this (cv) imc. SVEF! pledges to remain non-violent and law abiding in this case to prevent distracting the FBI from their investigation of Rexroad's theft of SSJID documents, murder of animals, stalking, harrassment, etc..
Earth First! call to action;
http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/articles.php?a=904
"The time is long overdue for radical ecologists to move climate change to the forefront of our actions. Our love for wild places and the traditional focus of EF! activities on place-based actions blinds us to the fact that the single greatest threat to biodiversity is no longer in the forests, deserts, mountains or seas, but on the highways, in the coalfields and factories, and on the industrial ranchlands.
Moreover, climate chaos has strong connections to nearly every contemporary social movement, and as such it provides an important and under-utilized avenue for bringing a biocentric analysis to many societal problems. Equally important, climate action is inextricably linked to global corporate control, presenting important opportunities for campaigning that go beyond political lobbying and reform."
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