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Governor Holds State Hostage to Peripheral Canal Water Bond by Dan Bacher Governor Arnold "Fish Terminator" Schwarzenegger has told Legislative leaders that he wants a water package including a peripheral canal and dams on his desk by Friday night before he will act on 700 bills sitting on his desk. He is in effect holding the State of California hostage to his plan to build a monument to his gigantic ego, the peripheral canal, a budget-busting government boondoggle estimated to cost ...

Southern California fishermen exposed the environmental hypocrisy of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at a protest in front of the Hyatt Regency Plaza in Los Angeles during the Global Climate Summit on September 30. Photo: Fishermen protest the Governor's disastrous environmental policies in front of the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on September 30. Photo courtesy of California Fisheries Coalition....

John Lewallen, North Coast environmental leader and co-owner of the Mendocino Sea Vegetable Company, has written a blistering letter to the Ecotrust Corporation, a group hired by the Resource Legacy Fund Foundation to remove Indian Tribes, seaweed harvesters, commercial fishermen, recreational anglers and abalone divers from the North Coast under the guise of "marine protection." Lewallen argues that the Governor's fast-track Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process, supported by corporate "...

This Friday, October 2nd at 8:45am, concerned citizens and redwood area activists will bike from the Arcata Plaza south along Redwood Highway 101 to raise awareness of the threats to our State Parks and the intentions of Caltrans to “RIP” a hole in our "Redwood Curtain" located within Richardson Grove State Park....

In the largest dam removal project in history, the federal government, three Indian Tribes and 25 other parties released a tentative agreement today providing for the removal of four Klamath River Dam owned by billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Company. Un-dam the Klamath boat photo courtesy of the Klamath Riverkeeper....

Local environmentalists, fishermen, seaweed harvesters, Native Americans and other supporters of environmental justice showed in force at the "Take A Stand Concert and Seafood Tasting" against Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's corrupt Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process in Albion, on September 22. Over 500 people attended, enjoyed great music, and won lots of raffle prizes. Photo of Archie Richardson giving electric guitar to Rick Parrish, a member of the Kashia Tribe and the Black ...

As Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger continues to wage a relentless war on Central Valley salmon and Delta smelt populations, he today participated in another cynical photo opportunity celebrating his "leadership role" in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to promote the false notion that he is the "Green Governor."...

A public workshop is scheduled for members of California’s north coast community to learn more about the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) planning process. The MLPA requires the state to reexamine and redesign California’s system of marine protected areas (MPAs) in state waters....

Meet at Arcata Plaza at 8:45 Oct. 2nd Meet at Avenue of the Giants Pepperwood Exit(674) at 9:45am Oct. 3rd Meet at Garberville Town Square(across from Chautauquas) at 10:45am Oct. 4th Meet at point of action in Richardson Grove State Park at noon on Oct. 4th for gathering and protection ceremony....

Neo-conservative talk show host Sean Hannity aired live from the west side of the San Joaquin Valley last night to garner national attention for California’s "water crisis," falsely portraying the battle by a broad coalition of fishermen, conservationists, California Indian Tribes, Delta farmers and environmental justice activists to restore the Delta and Central Valley salmon as a conflict of "fish versus jobs."...