California Cornerstone: June 4, 2013 Delta Water and News Links

Delta Related and Water News
Would Another Burns-Porter Act Resolve the Delta Revuelta?
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2013/06/04/would-another-burns-porter-act-resolve-the-delta-revuelta/
(I say nope...enforce these two acts on the books and I just bet 3/4 of our 'issues' would wash away - pun intended.)

Tenacious Water Lawyers Needed Immediately!
Delta National Park
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2013/06/04/would-another-burns-porter-act-resolve-the-delta-revuelta/

Dirty Water, Dirty Tricks
Lloyd G. Carter
http://www.lloydgcarter.com/content/130523617_dirty-water-dirty-tricks

Maven's Notebook
http://mavensnotebook.com/2013/06/04/mavens-minutes-from-the-press-conference-natural-resources-agency-releases-remaining-draft-bdcp-documents-includes-costs-benefits-and-funding-information/

http://mavensnotebook.com/2013/06/04/mavens-minutes-restore-the-deltas-panel-of-experts-discusses-the-costs-of-the-tunnels/

http://mavensnotebook.com/2013/06/04/blog-round-up-bloggers-on-the-bdcp-fish-screens-climate-change-and-native-fishes-restructuring-the-swp-and-more/

Jerry Cadagan's Clips

Attached to today's Clips is an excellent letter from Friends of the River to the Federal fishery agencies pointing out numerous flagrant violations of law by the Bay Delta Conservation Plan Peripheral Tunnels proposal (Please see additional post for the 8-page letter. km)

the Chapter 8 and 9 material regarding BDCP that the current Brown Administration released last week make it clear that the Gov. will be relying on one or more bond measures to pay for a significant part of the scheme not paid for with the hoped for contributions from the true beneficiaries. That suggests that it is timely to now again float out for you the 2 part series done last year by Lloyd Carter and Patrick Porgans about another Brown Administration effort to use bonds to pay for a major water project -

http://www.lloydgcarter.com/content/121119588_repeating-budgets-billionaires-bonds-big-profits-and-brown-family-–-parts-one-and-

Steven Greenhut again hits the mark in saying that Gov. Brown is being reckless in his search for a legacy and with his Daddy complex -

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-04/who-will-pay-for-jerry-brown-s-father-complex-.html

the Butte Environmental Council is organizing a trip to the Delta this coming Saturday -

http://www.orovillemr.com/news/ci_23384747/road-trip-delta-water-education

this op-ed in the Hanford paper about water cutbacks by the State and Feds deserves a lot of comments, but the Hanford paper limits comments to 500 characters -

http://www.hanfordsentinel.com/news/opinion/mailbag/local-guest-commentary-kings-county-valley-water-allocations-cut-again/article_8fd8a9a6-cca5-11e2-80da-001a4bcf887a.html

June 7 is the last chance to participate in the survey evaluating implementation progress for the Delta Vision Strategic Plan -

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=37289db013af53c1da797dc28&id=53309db5ef&e=4b3e735101

Inland Empire water agencies take an appeal to the Fed. 9th Circuit of lower court decision upholding Fish & Wildlife plan adding habitat to protect Santa Ana sucker (2 items) -

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_23378031/developing-inland-water-agencies-appeal-habitat-expansion-santa

http://www.pe.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20130603-region-water-agencies-appeal-fish-habitat-ruling.ece

Peter Moyle follows up on the recent report suggesting that climate change is a threat to many species of California fish (Clips May 31), but says that there is hope --- greater flows!! -

http://californiawaterblog.com

the Chronicle's Tom Stienstra reports on the great salmon fishing these days -

http://blog.sfgate.com/stienstra/2013/06/02/crazy-ends-to-salmon-spectrum/

NOAA and FWS issue bi-op for several species on the Klamath; Hoopa Valley Tribe says it's insufficient -

http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/06/03/3325490/feds-ok-new-balance-for-klamath.html

and Hoopa chief says dams should come down but Klamath Restoration Agreement is a bad deal -

http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Klamath-water-pact-usurps-tribal-rights-4563630.php?t=bbba780d01cefdcb88

although this is a repeat from a few days ago it shows the complexity of the Klamath issue -

http://www.times-standard.com/opinion/ci_23351704/what-are-facts-about-kbra-dam-removal-and?IADID=Search-www.times-standard.com-www.times-standard.com

and plans for improved passage for steelhead in Piru Creek in Ventura County move ahead, but Clips isn't paying the Ventura paper to read the full story -

http://www.vcstar.com/news/2013/jun/02/steelhead-trout-restoration-projects-swim/#ixzz2VAgNFgb3

ACWA is doing a June 13 conference on Southern California groundwater -

http://www.acwa.com/events/acwa-region-8-event-what-lies-beneath-look-groundwater-southern-california

and on June 12 and 27 the Delta Protection Commission will be having sessions to find a new Executive Director to replace Michael Machado -

http://www.delta.ca.gov/res/docs/MTG_6-12-13_Notice_and_Agenda.pdf

four new fracking stories today -

http://www.voiceofoc.org/oc_north/article_2aa179b6-cc5d-11e2-910e-0019bb2963f4.html

http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/water-125592-oil-fracking.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasdelbeccaro/2013/06/04/californias-anti-fracking-ideologues-look-a-gift-horse-in-the-mouth/

http://grist.org/news/california-illinois-lawmakers-welcome-frackers/

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/03/28/5298444/bay-delta-conservation-plan-documents.html#storylink=cpyEnvironmental News

Economic/Tourism News

High Speed Rail/BDCP Conveyance News

National Political News
Senator Feinstein's Mr/Mzzz Feinstein/Blum does it again...
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Senator_Feinstein%E2%80%99s_Husband_Stands_to_Make_Millions_from_USPS_Contract/26454/0/38/38/Y/M.html
(FYI, Blum's consortium of contractors underbid the other four groups to land the High Speed Rail Construction contract. BTW, Blum's companies are notorious for cost overruns into the billions.)

California Political News

Litigation News

Tribal News

Calendar

Written Comment Opportunities

Because It's Cool!

35 Reasons You Should Never Be Without Vinegar
FarmWars.com
http://farmwars.info/?p=10531&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FarmWars+%28Farm+Wars%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

California Cornerstone

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

June 4, 2013 Delta Water and News Links

No comments:

Post a Comment