Friday, September 28, 2012

September 17-28, 2012 Delta Water and News Links

Delta News
Burt Wilson
YouTube.com
Where Will the Water Come From?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbkPILZ-JcY
(Excellent 15 minutes of background information on the Water Grab.)

Nicky Suard, Snug Harbor Resorts
YouTube.com
Water Conveyance and Navigation History of the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta 1850-2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0RBb1uvHXw&feature=em-uploademail-new

Restore the Delta
Special to San Jose Mercury News
Barbara Barrigan-Parilla and Robert Tyke: Yo Gov. Brown Fixing Delta Levees IS Feasible
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_21601120/barbara-barrigan-parilla-and-robert-pyke-yo-gov

Delta Stewardship Council
Christopher Knopp, Executive Director
http://deltacouncil.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/12-0917%20Knopp%20cv.pdf

Restore the Delta
Newsletter
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=xp76ilcab&v=001sR9KXnYiTHjgMh_HCdiGmDnmeBh3tWAIkFRDfLwZr-EdpT58KRJpOmsl2U30YewB5gNtD6exTEkp19bwoK7V64VGUSHx4XE5BehcwXj5kaitwJNnyRotRg%3D%3D

Aquafornia.com
Weekend Wrap-up
http://www.aquafornia.com/archives/73646/

Central Valley Business Times
Audio: State Official Talks About What May Happen to Delta
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=21946

TheReporter.com
Solve Issue at Other End of the Delta
http://www.thereporter.com/opinion/ci_21612942/solve-issue-at-other-end-delta

Bay Delta Conservation Plan
Introduces New Blog
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=87n6dgdab&v=001T4YSeKItteXGw_BTwSUizMJjpoGUb1_TWvIABmJo9U9qUwDfn3oeTxt2lBqagxkTfwBd84EEwp6ooJy6CInXqDsjxMQB4VwGB-MJCcU6cYfqhWfltDeO03AdmtZJkWdkhgwReUT0Ge-goKYlOS9PgmpHHU_e2lA_ZGsMBHFrRW9Py0s9GybRMA%3D%3D

Aguanomics.com
Speed Blogging
http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/09/speed-blogging_26.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aguanomics+%28Aguanomics%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Alex Breitler's Blog
How About Goats?
http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2012/09/25/how-about-goats/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+san-joaquin-river-delta+%28Alex+Breitler%27s+San+Joaquin+Delta%2C+Delta+College+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Alex Breitler's Blog
Berryhill Attacks Galgiani on Peripheral Canal
http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2012/09/26/berryhill-attacks-galgiani-on-peripheral-canal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+san-joaquin-river-delta+%28Alex+Breitler%27s+San+Joaquin+Delta%2C+Delta+College+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

California Water News
CalWatchDog.com
Politics Clogs Solutions to Delta Water Problems
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/09/25/politics-clogs-solutions-to-delta-water-problems/
(Boy is he way off.)

Farm Water News
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/09/news-articles-and-links-from-september_17.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/09/news-articles-and-links-from-september_18.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/09/news-articles-and-links-from-september_19.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/09/news-articles-and-links-from-september_20.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/09/news-articles-and-links-from-september_25.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/09/news-articles-and-links-from-september_26.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/09/news-articles-and-links-from-september_27.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/09/news-articles-and-links-from-september_28.html

Water News
Aquadoc.com
CRS Report: Clean Water Ace and Pollutant Total Maximum Daily Loads
http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2012/09/crs-report-.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fwaterwired+%28WaterWired%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Agriculture News
CapitalPress.com
Firm Sees Future in Local
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/djw-CNTRorangesider1-092112

Claycord.com
Gov. Brown Signs Assemblywoman Bonilla's School Garden Bill
http://claycord.com/2012/09/28/governor-brown-signs-assemblywoman-susan-bonillas-school-garden-bill/

Levee News

Fisheries News
Packard Foundation
ChartingaCourse.org
Charting a Course to Sustainable Fisheries
http://www.chartingacourse.org/

Environmental News

Tribal News

Habitat News
Lloyd G. Carter
New Riparian Restoration Connection Website
http://www.lloydgcarter.com/content/120926581_new-riparian-restoration-connection-website
(For any one doing Riparian restoration, this looks to be a good resource.)

Infrastructure News
LewRockwell.com
19 Signs That America is Being Systematically Transformed into a Giant Surveillance Grid
http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/us-giant-surveillance-grid.html
(In case you had nothing else to occupy yourself with!)

Economic News
CapitalPress.com
Campbell Closing Plants as Soup Consumption Falls
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/AP-Campbell-soup-cuts-092712

CalWatchDog.com
Now Atwater Teetering Toward Bankruptcy
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/09/27/now-atwater-teetering-toward-bankruptcy/

Tourism News
Rural Tourism Marketing
Promote Fall Agritourism
http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2012/09/extend-your-rural-tourism-season-by-promoting-agritourism/

California Political News
Sacbee.com
The State Worker: Why We Posted California Parks Documents, Available Here
http://blogs.sacbee.com/the_state_worker/2012/09/why-we-posted-california-parks-investigation-documents-download-them-here.html
(And a bunch of them too, for those interested in this.)

Eco Farm News
GE News: No on 37 Radio Ads Littered With Falsehoods
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=76c0bb8f4637459fcb1d94bf3&id=b5b57e7b23&e=70f6a0af54

CalWatchdog.com
Prop. 31 is a Trojan Horse for Wealth Redistribution
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/09/27/prop-31-is-a-trojan-horse-for-wealth-redistribution/

CalWatchDog.com
Dianne Feinstein's Empty Chair
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/09/26/diane-feinsteins-empty-chair/

Political News
Roll Call
Phone Company PAC Funds Campaigns Against Republicans With Customer Over-payments
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/58_24/Phone-Company-PAC-Funds-Campaigns-Against-Republicans-217773-1.html?ET=rollcall:e14289:33852a:&st=email&pos=eam
(You can do this???  Hmph...I know I would NOT be a happy customer.)

John Rappaport
NoMoreFakeNews.com
Why They Had to Stop Ron Paul
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=4tixiugab&v=001KOjYle_zlG-2qBt9BS6ljGWp3fIoPzLblV1KRMxUISd76lM8L64Duh-h12nOcADaW6yLpvclTGM2vEIdm0i0a_5pOpQX7VORJsJ9npysriPjDdI3SukZag%3D%3D
(A good read.)

National Legal and Policy Center
USDA Submits to Shakedown by Hispanic and Women Farmers
http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/09/28/usda-submits-shakedown-hispanic-and-women-farmers

Science News
National Acadamies Press
Science Debate 2012: Science in Public Policy
http://notes.nap.edu/2012/09/24/science-debate-2012-science-in-public-policy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nap%2Fnotes+%28Notes+from+NAP%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Science Debate 2012: Fresh Water
http://notes.nap.edu/2012/09/28/science-debate-2012-fresh-water/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nap%2Fnotes+%28Notes+from+NAP%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

ScienceDaily.com
Reduced Sea Ice: Fewer Consequences Than Anticipated
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120914082552.htm

High Speed Rail News
CapitalPress.com
Feds Approve First Leg of California High Speed Rail
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/AP-California-high-speed-rail-091912

California Progress Report
CHRSA Releases Agriculture White Papers
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/chsra-releases-agriculture-white-papers

California Progress Report
When Will Daylight Come to California Coast
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/when-will-daylight-come-california-coast

California Progress Report
Is Bay Area Transit Stagnating Under the Weight of Oppressive Zoning Codes?
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/bay-area-transit-stagnating-under-weight-oppressive-zoning-codes

UN/Agenda 21/Sustainable Development
American Policy Center
Protecting Man's Rights in a Changing World
http://americanpolicy.org/2012/09/27/protecting-mans-rights-in-a-changing-world/

PublicWorks.com
Secretary Vilsack Announces USDA Has Reached Its Goal to Fund 250M in Smart Grid Improvements
http://www.publicworks.com/doc.mvc/secretary-vilsack-announces-usda-has-reached-its-goal-to-fund-m-in-smart-grid-improvements-0001?sectionCode=News&templateCode=EnhancedStandard&user=2431777&source=nl:35073

American Farmland Trust
Newsletter
http://www.farmland.org/news/newsletters/enews/2012/September.asp

News With Views
Planning Commissions, Smart Growth and Land Use, Part 2
http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh167.htm

EPAAbuse.com
The End of International Environmentalism
http://epaabuse.com/9106/news/the-end-of-international-environmentalism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-end-of-international-environmentalism

Freedom Advocates
Civilian National Security Force is the Creature in Your Community
http://www.freedomadvocates.org/articles/education_transformation/civilian_national_security_force_is_the_creature_in_your_community_20120912466/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freedomadvocates+%28Freedom+Advocates+-+Articles%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Public Comment Opportunities

Litigation News
Quite a few cases here that in one way or another might be useful for the legal-minded readers in our build up to the EIR and post-survival in the Delta thereof!

Findlaw.com
USCourts.com
Brennan Ctr. for Justice at NY Univ. Sch. of Law v. U.S. Dept. of Justice
http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/540a65d2-8dc0-436c-9aff-a94280c09d23/1/doc/11-4599_opn.pdf#xml=http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/540a65d2-8dc0-436c-9aff-a94280c09d23/1/hilite/
(Concerns FOIA, and US-based NGO's.)

Findlaw.com
Council of San Benito County Governments v. Hollister Inn, Inc.
http://login.findlaw.com/scripts/callaw
(Create an email and password.  This suit is pertinent in Agenda 21 (Council of Governments and property takings under eminent domain and failure by EIR to properly address an alternative route that doesn't involve taking of private property.)

Findlaw.com
Earth Island Inst. v. U.S. Forest Service
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2012/09/20/11-16718.pdf
(Has to do with building projects within protected or Forest Service areas and intermediate indicator species.)

Findlaw.com
Wolfsen Land  Cattle Co. v. Pac. Coast Fed'n of Fishermen's Associationhttp://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/11-5113.pdf(This is a takings case arising from the government’s releases of water from a dam in central California. Downstream property owners sued in the Court of Federal Claims, alleging that the releases unlawfully impaired their property rights in the water and inundated their land.)

CapitalPress.com
Judge Tosses Russian River Water Diversion Rules
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/AP-CA-Vineyards-frost-protection-092712

Events Calendar

Just For Fun
Glenn Beck
The Project
http://email.theblaze.com/gb40/wmws/THBL/1348492402699_464/w591099.php?custcode=THBL&bid=239984643&porefererid_=239984643&pbid_=239984643&pemail=karenmedders%40gmail.com&preflname_=&preffname_=
(Something that might best interest to at least get educated as you see fit.)

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