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Governor Brown met privately with Beverly Hills ag queen, junk bond king 
The Resnicks are notorious for the influence they have exerted over California politicians from both the Democratic and Republican parties, including Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor Jerry Brown, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and others, through campaign contributions.
Photo of Jerry Brown courtesy of http://www.atvn.org...
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 11:38am PST
Winnemem Wintu Chief says Frankenfish must be stopped 
“It must be recognized as an inherent right of Indigenous Peoples for the Winnemem Wintu to hold the salmon as a relative that is so intrinsic to our culture," said Caleen Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe. "There are complete eco systems based on the clarity, knowledge and health of the salmon."
Photo of Joe Simmons, Winnemem Wintu Tribe member, Caleen Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, and Kayla Carpenter, Hoopa Valley Tribe member, ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 18, 2013 7:41pm PST
Delta Pumping Restrictions: It's About Salmon 
"While the immediate reason water diversions are reduced in the delta is due to delta smelt being killed at the diversion pumps, the juvenile salmon are also out migrating through the delta now and are being killed by the pumps," said GGSA president Victor Gonella.
Photo of Chinook salmon courtesy of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife....
Posted: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 8:53am PST
Brown administration employs water cut announcement to promote tunnels 
"Time and time again, the best available Delta science has shown that Delta Smelt and other threatened fish species are on the brink of collapse due to too much water being taken out of the Delta," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of RTD. "In the face of the threatened extinction of fish species, the Brown Administration has presided over record-high water exports."...
Posted: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 12:20pm PST
Restore the Delta opposes both twin and single tunnel proposals 
A single Peripheral Tunnel would still harm the Delta, and wouldn’t be cost-effective for the water-takers, according to Barrigan-Parrilla. The question with the portfolio-based alternative to the BDCP is, "Why would water contractors pay for a tunnel that would deliver less water?’"...
Posted: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:18pm PST
Governor Jerry 'Tunnel Vision' Brown Is Letting California Get Fracked 
Write your State Assemblymember and State Senator and tell them to support legislation to ban fracking in California. Go to: https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=445...
Posted: Fri, Feb 1, 2013 9:22am PST
“Over Troubled Waters” made official selection at NorCal Film Festival 
Over Troubled Waters is the centerpiece of a public education effort to stop the building of the peripheral tunnels....
Posted: Tue, Jan 29, 2013 10:50am PST
Sen. Kerry's Vietnam Medals Evaluation Report Sen. Kerry's Vietnam Medals Evaluation Report...
Posted: Sun, Jan 27, 2013 4:24pm PST
Stop the raising of Shasta Dam - take action now! 
Monday, January 28 is the deadline for public comments regarding the federal government's proposal to raise Shasta Dam, a plan that will flood many of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe's sacred sites and lead to the the destruction of Central Valley salmon and Delta fish populations. Send in your letter now!
Photo of McCloud River courtesy of Friends of the River....
Posted: Sun, Jan 27, 2013 12:48pm PST
C-WIN slams Brown's call to build the twin tunnels 
C-WIN’s Executive Director Carolee Krieger responded, “Governor Brown is not giving the full cost of the Peripheral Tunnels when he says it will cost $14 billion. The cost will easily exceed $60 billion by the time financing, cost overruns, mitigation, operations and maintenance are counted. Californians will spend billions for tunnels with not a drop more of water delivered to our cities and no benefits to the environment."
Photo of the Sacramento River at Hamilton City by Dan Bacher. Gov...
Posted: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 6:57pm PST
Defense contractor is no longer lead consultant on Delta tunnel plan 
In the latest scandal to hit SAIC, the corporation had to pay over $500 million in a settlement over an employment timekeeping program it managed for New York City, according to an article by Marjorie Censer in the Washington Post on March 18, 2012.
Photo of Governor Jerry Brown delivering his State of the State Address courtesy of the Governor's Office....
Posted: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 5:49pm PST
Governor Brown uses address to promote peripheral tunnels 
"My proposed plan is two tunnels 30 miles long and 40 feet wide, designed to improve the ecology of the Delta, with almost 100 square miles of habitat restoration," said Governor Brown. "Yes, that is big but so is the problem."
Photo of Brown delivering address courtesy of the Governor's Office....
Posted: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 10:58am PST
Restore the Delta responds to 'portfolio-based' tunnel proposal 
Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore Delta, said, “The question with the portfolio-based alternative to the BDCP is, ‘why would water contractors pay for a tunnel that would deliver less water?’ Their agencies cannot afford it. There is already doubt that they can afford to pay for the currently proposed tunnels, which would deliver between 4.5 and 6 million acre feet of water."
Photo of Tracy Fish Collection Facility on the South Delta courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Recla...
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2013 12:11pm PST
Term 91 -- Flips Senior Water rights to Junior The new Delta Watermaster is changing Senior Water Rights in Northern California...
Posted: Wed, Jan 16, 2013 11:37am PST
Mangrove forests threatened by Climate Change in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh and India 
A new study has found the Sundarban coast retreating up to 200 metres in a single year due to rapidly deteriorating health of the world's largest Mangrove forest in the Sundarbans, the Ganges delta region of India and Bangladesh....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2013 1:24am PST
Jerry Brown, Secretary John Laird Win Cold, Dead Fish Awards 
While federal officials, corporate agribusiness interests, sleazy politicians and others have done an “admirable” job in their war against fish and fishermen, there are two detested public figures that stand out above all of the rest – Governor Jerry Brown and Natural Resources Secretary John Laird. Just like Obama has continued and expanded the abysmal fish and water policies of GW Bush, Brown and Laird have continued and expanded the abysmal policies of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Photo of G...
Posted: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 2:06pm PST
Groups blast Brown regime for squandering opportunity to restore Delta 
"This entire process is not only an outrage against the environment and the Delta," said Bob Wright of Friends of the River. "It is also an outrage against the people and the taxpayers of California. The people voted down the peripheral canal back in 1982 by a 63-37% vote."
Photo of chinook salmon by the Department of Fish and Wildlife. If the peripheral tunnels are built, Californians can expect to see imperiled Central Valley chinook salmon, along with Delta smelt, longfin smelt, Sacrame...
Posted: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:44am PST
Klamath scientists claim political interference and censorship 
“Our fear is that professionalism has become hazardous to our careers inside Reclamation,” said Keith Schultz, one of the seven scientists. “We hope this complaint will make a difference in allowing other scientists to come forward and be truthful about science.”
Photo of coho salmon courtesy of Siskiyou Land Conservancy....
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2013 3:29pm PST
Delta Fish Populations Reach Record Low Levels 
To avoid these fish population crashes from happening in the future, Thomas Cannon, fishery biologist, recommended that the Water Board develop specific standards for inflows, outflows and exports on the Delta, according to year type....
Posted: Fri, Jan 4, 2013 5:41pm PST
Reinventing the American Economy Stream or download at http://greatspeechesandinterviews.blogspot.com/
Broadcast at Access Sacramento at http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/mini.cgi?station_name=accesssacramento&site=pro&tm=6524...
Event Date: Sun, Jan 6, 2013 6:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2013 10:19am PST