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Will Schwarzenegger Push Interior Secretary to Support Peripheral Canal? 
Will Schwarzenegger Push Interior Secretary to Support Peripheral Canal?
by Dan Bacher
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will be coming to the California Delta, now in its greatest-ever ecological crisis, on Wednesday, April 15.
Salazar and Schwarzenegger will announce "economic stimulus projects to help water infrastructure in California and elsewhere" as part of the Department of the Interior’s investments under the American Recovery a...
Posted: Tue, Apr 14, 2009 4:21pm PDT
Delta Farmers Sue to Stop Arnold's Peripheral Canal Delta farmers have filed a groundbreaking lawsuit charging that everyone involved with the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, a thinly disguised process to build a peripheral canal and increase water exports out of the California Delta, is violating numerous environmental laws protecting fish and wildlife....
Posted: Mon, Apr 13, 2009 5:03pm PDT
Senate Majority Leader Calls For Oversight Hearing on MLPA Process Dean Florez (D-Shafter), the California Senate Majority Leader, said he will conduct a Senate Oversight Hearing this year about conflict of interest and “mission creep” in the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process....
Posted: Sun, Apr 12, 2009 10:46am PDT
Demand Peace Vigil: Saturday Vigil at 6:30 pm Debra Reiger, Sacramento Area peace activist, asks you to demand peace now!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 10, 2009 3:12pm PDT
Commission Denies Miners' Call to Close Karuk Ceremonial Salmon Fishery Lodi, CA – Yesterday the California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously to deny a petition forwarded by a coalition of recreational gold mining groups to stop the Karuk Tribe from exercising its aboriginal right to dip net fish at Ishi Pishi Falls on the Klamath River....
Posted: Fri, Apr 10, 2009 1:13pm PDT
Migration/Immigration: A Nation Divided - Photo Show & Discussion April 13 Photographer Francisco Dominguez will present his photo series on the US-Mexico Border Crisis on Monday, April 13, at 7:00 PM at 909 12th ST, Sacramento, CA (between I & J St...
Posted: Thu, Apr 9, 2009 5:33pm PDT
San Francisco's Save The Presidio Files FOIA Request on Fisher Art Museum San Francisco's SAVE THE PRESIDIO, an organization opposed to the controversial proposal to build a contemporary art museum sponsored by Gap Founder Donald Fisher on the Presidio of San Francisco National Park, has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Presidio Trust to get background information on the planned Fisher Art Museum....
Posted: Thu, Apr 9, 2009 3:17pm PDT
California Salmon Season Cancelled for Second Year: Earthjustice Response 
The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PMFC) today voted to shut down the California commercial salmon fishing season for a second year in a row to protect the shrinking population of Sacramento River Chinook salmon, according to Brian Smith of Earthjustice.
"Conservation and fishing groups have been yelling from the rooftops for years that ‘fish need water,’ but their cries fell on deaf ears," said George Torgun, the Earthjustice attorney who represented conservation and fishing groups ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 8, 2009 4:28pm PDT
American Rivers Names Sacramento-San Joaquin As Most Endangered 
A national environmental organization, American Rivers, has named the Sacramento-San Joaquin River system as the "most endangered" river in North America.
Photo of the Sacramento River below Rio Vista by Dan Bacher. If Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has his way, a peripheral canal diverting Sacramento River water will be built, resulting in the destruction of Central Valley salmon and delta fish populations....
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 6:35pm PDT
Group Calls on Politicians to Make Flood Protection a Delta Priority Restore the Delta is calling on local, state, and federal political leaders to take broad actions to protect and restore the California Delta in accordance with American Rivers' findings that the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is the nation's most endangered river system....
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 2:25pm PDT
"To Kill or Not to Kill...Be Killed or Not Be Killed... ....That is NOT our Question ! " The delirious Police melodrama-version of what supposedly happened on March 21, 2009, when Lovelle MIxon would have ALLEGEDLY killed 4 cops in 2 separate instances, before being blasted away by OPD, is fuller of holes than Swiss cheese, and seriouly reeks...Something is badly stinking in the kingdom of Oaktown.....
Posted: Sat, Apr 4, 2009 6:09pm PDT
Fisheries Forum Questions Point Arena Closures: What Role is the Oil Industry Playing? “Why is Catherine Reheis-Boyd, CEO and Chief of Staff for the Western States Petroleum Association, a key member of the five-member MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force which has decreed new zones where people can take no food from state waters?” John Lewallen, longtime North Coast environmental activist and seaweed harvester asks. “Is it coincidence that the Point Arena Basin offshore from Point Arena is the area of highest oil industry interest in Northern California, and the only tract here now op...
Posted: Fri, Apr 3, 2009 1:32pm PDT
Stop Clear Cutting the Sierra Nevada The Sacramento Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society will sponsor a presentation on "Clearcut Nation" on Wednesday, April 8, 7 p.m. at Shepard Garden & Arts Center in McKinley Park, 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento CA 95816....
Posted: Fri, Apr 3, 2009 10:26am PDT
Schwarzenegger Official Tries to 'Snow' Public with Drought Claims 
Lester Snow, the Director of the State Department of Water Resources (DWR), used the announcement of the April 2 snow survey as yet another opportunity to promote Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to build a peripheral canal and more dams.
Photo of snow on trees from DWR....
Posted: Thu, Apr 2, 2009 7:43pm PDT
Marriage Equality USA, Out4Immigration & Love Exile Report: Shirley Tan Given Deportation Shirley Tan, the California mother of two who was to be deported April 3rd has been given a stay of deportation until April 22nd pending the possibility of further action. Thanks to the heroic efforts of her counsel, Melanie Nathan, lawyer Phyllis Beech, Rep. Jackie Speier [CA-12], Senator Dianne Feinstein, and Immigration Equality's Julie Kruse, Ms Tan, her wife of 23 years, U.S. citizen Jay Mercado, and their two sons will not be saying goodbye to one another just yet....
Posted: Thu, Apr 2, 2009 5:49pm PDT
The Lamprey Harpoon by the Fishermen's Liberation Front! I just received this clandestine document from the Fishermen's Liberation Front. Among other breaking news, this publication reveals that the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations has filed its 10,000th lawsuit. Lawsuit # 10,000 is a writ filed in Superior Court in Fresno, PCFFA v. Egan, demanding the County District Attorney take criminal action against the Westlands Water District for receipt of stolen property – water unlawfully received from the State Water Project and the ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 1, 2009 5:14pm PDT
Nestle Waters & Westlands Irrigation District to Leverage “Evil Evil Economy of Scale” Breaking news from http://stopnestlewaters.org: Anonymous sources revealed at an April 1 press conference that Nestle Waters of North America and Westlands Irrigation District have agreed to merge, forming a single multinational bent on world domination of water supplies....
Posted: Wed, Apr 1, 2009 4:19pm PDT
Barbara Lee calls for an investigation of the shooting of Tristan Anderson Barbara Lee calles for an investigation of the shooting of Tristan Anderson....
Posted: Wed, Apr 1, 2009 10:18am PDT
Big Turnout Needed At JROTC Hearing in Sacramento April 1 The sponsors of two JROTC-friendly measures, AB 223 and 351, will try to pack the room at the State Capitol with supporters and "we need to counter that effort with lots of opponents," according to this action alert from John Reiger of Veterans for Peace that includes Mark Norton's Beyond Chron article....
Posted: Tue, Mar 31, 2009 11:16am PDT
Schwarzenegger Tries To Link Wilderness Bill to Building Peripheral Canal 
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today praised President Obama's signing of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act while incongruously linking it to an environmentally destructive peripheral canal proposal.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger met with representatives from the seven American states and four Canadian provinces that make up the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) in Sacramento on March 25 as California's fisheries continued to collapse. Photo from the Governor's Office....
Posted: Mon, Mar 30, 2009 3:59pm PDT
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