Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Delta Water and News Links, March 6, 2012

Delta News
Aquafornia.com
ValleyEcon.blogspot.com
Jeff Mount: Isolated Conveyance Tunnel Debt Service $1.1 Billion Annually
http://valleyecon.blogspot.com/2012/02/isolated-conveyance-tunnel-debt-service.html
(EXCELLENT comment series here.  Dr. Pyke joins in...)

Aquafornia.com
YouTube.com
USACE Folsom Dam Axillary Spillway 101
http://aquafornia.com/archives/63265
(Personal note, my friend's husband is the detonations specialist on this project.  He is one of less than 12 civilians authorized by the US Government to detonate top military-grade explosives.  I have the UTMOST confidence in his abilities!  What a small world!)

Aquafornia.com
SFGate.com
Carolyn Jones: Redwood City: New Shoreline Development Plan Near
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/04/BAQ51NDG3G.DTL
(Take a look at the path to provide that water....Kern County to Santa Clara County.  Awesome Santa Clara County wants absolutely nothing to do with this.  The paper trail for water is, Delta to Kern County WATER BANK, back out of the WATER BANK to be SOLD to another water district up here to provide the water necessary for this boondoggle.

Also of note, Mzzz Feinstein has her pretty little fingers all over this.  When Cargill made the decision to retire these salt flats, she attempted to use these same salt flats to mitigate the runway expansion of SFO, then Jerry Brown got into the mix and wanted HIS runway extension for OAK, the overreach stopped/stalled the proposed expansions and salt marsh habitat restoration. 

Then this morphed into this current Public Trust theft.  If we are to mitigate and provide proper habitat restoration to offset our water fiasco...then seems to me regardless of where it is located within the state, when proper habitat property becomes available WITH a willing seller, THAT proper habitat should be restored.  Restoring these critical salt marshes and tidal marshes are MOST appropriate here and MOST INAPPROPRIATE anywhere within the Delta east of the Suisun Marsh boundary, period.)

Aquafornia.com
Bilingual Weekly
Deanna Lynn Wulff: California's Choices: Two Big Expensive Tunnels or Better Water Management
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/event/17670
(Pretty good read.)

California Water News
Inkstain Blog
John Fleck: That Lone Republican Vote Against HR 1837
http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/2012/03/that-lone-republican-vote-against-hr1837/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JfleckAtInkstain+%28jfleck+at+inkstain%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
(We need more Representatives like this.  He made an intelligent, Constitutionally-appropriate vote here. Bravo!)

Aquafornia.com
SFGate.com
Reps. Nunes, Denham and McCarthy
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/06/ED161NG8VP.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
(Just more of the same crock of you-know-what.)

Aquafornia.com
Redding.com
Damon Arthur: Low Snow Pack on Mt. Shasta May Drain Summer Water Supply
http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/03/low-readings-pose-problem/
(Interesting North state perspective.)

Aquafornia.com
SFGate.com
Reps. Nunes, Denham and McCarthy
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/06/ED161NG8VP.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
(Just more of the same crock of you-know-what.)

Aquafornia.com
Independent Voter Network
Bob Morris: Cadiz Plan Highlights Magnitude of California's Water Problems
http://ivn.us/2012/03/06/cadiz-plan-highlights-magnitude-of-california-water-problems/

Aquafornia.com
Fresno Bee
Mark Grossi: San Joaquin Restoration: $70m Down the River
http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/03/05/2748599/san-joaquin-restoration-70m-goes.html#disqus_thread
(Some decent comments)

Aquafornia.com
Modest Bee
Sprech Rosekranz: Hetch Hetchy Restoration and the Tuolomne River
http://www.modbee.com/2012/03/05/2098956/hetch-hetchy-restoration-and-the.html

Aquafornia.com
San Francisco Examiner
OP-ED: David Mihalic: S.F. Needs to Help in Restoration of Hetch Hetchy Valley
http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2012/03/sf-needs-help-restoration-hetch-hetchy-valley

Aquafornia.com
MontereyHerald.com
Nadir Agha: A Project Worthy of Support
http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2012/03/sf-needs-help-restoration-hetch-hetchy-valley

Aquafornia.com
West Side Connection
Ag Water Supplies Curtailed
http://www.westsideconnect.com/2012/03/05/ag-water-supplies-curtailed/

Aquafornia.com
HanfordSentinel.com
Seth Nidever: Drought Resolution Back on Supervisors' Agenda

Aquafornia.com
Press Enterprise
Janet Zimmerman: Bill Seeks to Open Lake Matthews for Recreation
http://www.pe.com/local-news/breaking-news-headlines/20120305-region-bill-seeks-to-open-lake-mathews-for-recreation.ece

California Farm Water Coalition
Farm Water News, Mike Wade
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/03/news-articles-and-links-from-march-6.html

Water News
Aguanomics.com
David Zetland: Not So Fast UN
(David makes a good point.)

Aguanomics.com
David Zetland: Interested in Urban Water Tariffs?


EvironmentalResearchWeb.com
Conference: SGS presents Water Footprint
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/event/17670

Agriculture News
CapitalPress.com
Tim Hearden: Cattlemen Back Agra-Terrorism Bill, Other Legislation
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/TH-cattle-bills-w-photo-infobox-030912

Co.Exist.com
HRH The Prince of Wales: Takes on Critics of Sustainable Farming
(Too bad the word 'sustainable' has been so diluted as to its original meaning...and he does have a point!)

Environmental News

Political News
Co.Exist.com
Neil Ungerleader: How the Syrian Government Hunts Journalists Covering Its Atrocities
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679429/how-the-syrian-government-hunts-journalists-covering-its-atrocities
(If we think this can't or won't happen here under our current configuration of government...think again, folks.)

California Progress Report
Paul Buchheit: The Best Reason for the Very Rich to be Paying a Lot More in Taxes
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/best-reason-very-rich-be-paying-lot-more-taxes
(Really??  Don't you just loooove that 99% entitlement mentality??? How's about we all take a 12-month break from making ANY money at all.  Geez, classic childish behavior "he has more', 'where's mine'? 'gimme, gimme'...how about that money doesn't belong to you and if you want more, get three jobs, get a higher education....take some personal responsibility.

And hey California???  No one HAS to make as much money this year as they did last year.  And no one has to make more money next year either.  I'd defer as much income as I can just to spite the state...oh wait, I did!)

CalWatchDog.com
Katy Grimes: Capitol Protest: Joke In On Taxpayer
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/03/06/capitol-protest-joke-is-on-taxpayer/

CalWatchDog.com
Katy Grimes: Why Not Skip College?
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/03/06/why-not-skip-college/
("The world needs ditch-diggers, too" --Judge Smails, Caddy Shack)

Government News
California Watch
GW Schulz: SF Officials Urged to Bring Terror Task Force Under Local Control
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/sf-officials-urged-bring-terror-task-force-under-local-control-15167
(Who'd thought THIS would come out to SF!)

CalWatchDog.com
Chris Reed: Bankruptcy Didn't Make the Sky Fall in Orange County
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/03/06/chapter-3-the-sky-didnt-fall-in-orange-county/

Science News
TheFoundry.com
Bryan Kimball: Electromagnetic Pulse: Not If but When
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/06/electromagnetic-pulse-not-if-but-when/

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development

Litigation News

Events

Just For Fun



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