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"It’s about building and privatizing taxpayer-built dams and moving the control of the California’s water from the public trust to the private sector," said Leonard Masten, chairman of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. "The measure also paves the way for the construction of a peripheral canal that would more easily ship Northern California Water south."...

Tribal activists essentially took over a meeting of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative in Eureka today and demanded an opportunity to speak on the record. For about an hour Native Americans as well as non-native supporters from the North Coast criticized the process and demanded tribal representation on the science panel. As a journalist who has written dozens of articles investigating the conflicts of interests, violation of tribal gathering and...

The $11.14 billion water bond is part and parcel of the campaign by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and corporate agribusiness to build a peripheral canal and new dams....

The Schwarzenegger administration has taken all other “human uses” and “extractive activities” other than fishing and seaweed harvesting off the table in the implementation of the MLPA process. The MLPA fiasco does nothing to stop water pollution, oil drilling, and wave energy projects or other activities from destroying fish and other marine life populations in California’s coastal waters. Photo: On June 22, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger welcomed Russian Federation President Dmitry Medv...

“The Kashia began on the coast,” Reno Franklin of the Kashia Pomo Tribe stated. “Danaga is the place where we believe the tribe first stepped on the earth. It has tremendous significance for our tribe. We are a very traditional tribe that still speaks our language, follows our culture and respects our elders and follows their direction.” Photo of blessing ceremony at Stewarts Point on April 30 by Violet Wilder, Kashia Pomo Tribe....

MLPA Initiative to hold five "open house" events for the Northern California community July 6-8....

According to Pete McCloskey: “This case is about Caltrans ignoring the science and the will of the people of California in favor of the interests of large trucking companies. Caltrans obviously cares more about trucks than trees. That’s not how most Californians see things, and we are honored to represent these organizations and individuals in their fight against this unnecessary and destructive project.”...

John Lewallen, a well-respected North Coast environmental leader and co-founder of the Ocean Protection Coalition and the grassroots Seaweed Rebellion, has been a staunch opponent of offshore oil drilling for decades. He said that Schwarzenegger's MLPA Initiative not only fails to protect the California Coast from offshore oil drilling, but “paves the way for new offshore oil rigs.”...

Biodiversity Hotspots, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Nature Conservancy, the NRDC, MAXXAM, ENRON, Governor Gray Davis, Barry Munitz, Dr. John Mick Seidl - A lineage of conspiracy, manipulation to capitulation - control, and now fishery fascism disguised as an open and transparent process. And knowing that the effectiveness and contribution (towards conservation) of MPAs to the marine ecosystem is determined by fishery management outside of MPAs... This leads on ... to the next valida...

For thousands of years, tribes have gathered seaweed, mussels, abalone and fish from the inter-tidal zone for subsistence and ceremonial purposes. However, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process has shown no respect for the religious, subsistence and ceremonial rights of coastal tribes....