California Water Wars: Not a Conflict Between Fish and People
Unfortunately, this characterization of the battle to save the Delta as one of "people versus fish" couldn't be further from the truth.
View ArticlePush for Peripheral Canal in California Ignites Grassroots Uprising
A grassroots uprising has ignited to stop a mad rush to build a peripheral canal without regard for many Northern California and Delta constituents.
View ArticleSchwarzenegger Celebrates 'Green' Policies as He Wages War On Fisheries and...
So much for the enviro governor, his record towards fish and water is an unprecedented disaster.
View ArticleAgreement Reached On the Klamath River -- Why the Largest Dam Removal Project...
The government, three Indian Tribes and 25 other parties released a tentative agreement providing for the removal of four Klamath River dams owned by billionaire Warren Buffett.
View ArticleGovernor Schwarzenegger Holds California Hostage to Peripheral Canal Water Bond
Schwarzenegger said he wants a water bill package including a peripheral canal and dams on his desk by Friday night before he will act on 700 bills awaiting his signature.
View ArticleGroups Rally to Stop Nestle's Raid on Sacramento Water
Grassroots community activists are mobilizing against the internationally boycotted corporation that is planning to bottle water in an already parched state.
View ArticleEnvironmental Groups Across California Oppose Legislative Water Package
Today environmental groups from around California weighed in with their opposition to the dangerous proposed water legislation.
View ArticleRevealed: Astroturf Groups Planning Massive California Water Grab to Benefit...
Their ultimate goals are to increase water exports from the imperiled Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to corporate agribusiness and southern California.
View ArticleSurprise: Schwarzenegger Uses 'Drought' Announcement to Promote Canal, Dams
A broad coalition oppose the peripheral canal because it would inevitably result in the increased diversion of Delta water to corporate agribusiness and southern California.
View ArticleNASA Report Highlights Need to Retire Drainage Impaired Land in California
The retirement of drainage impaired land on the San Joaquin's west side should be a priority if we want to preserve California's limited water supply and fisheries.
View ArticleSchwarzenegger Uses State of the State Address To Push Misguided $11.1...
He gushed about the legislative package that clears the path for a peripheral canal, new dams and the destruction of the California Delta as one his major "accomplishments."
View ArticleUSDA Data Dispels Myth that California's West Side Growers 'Feed the Nation'
An "Astroturf" agribusiness group has relentlessly promoted the myth that crops grown on drainage-impaired land on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley "feed the nation."
View ArticleIs Schwarzenegger's Big Drought Over?
Don't be surprised if Schwarzenegger will now use the threat of catastrophic flooding of Biblical proportions to promote the $11.1 water bond on the November ballot.
View ArticleThe Resnicks Manipulate Water Policy with Big Campaign Contributions
Expect the influence by corporate giants like the Resnicks to increase even more due to the recent Supreme Court decisions that blocks bans on corporate spending for candidates.
View ArticleWhy Ratepayers and Taxpayers Could Be Stuck Holding the Bill for a Massive...
Most of the cost burden will fall on taxpayers and urban water ratepayers, although corporate agribusiness will receive the majority of the water from the tunnels.
View ArticleFederal Grants Include Money to Greenwash Peripheral Tunnels Plan in California
This grant looks like it gives a "green veneer" to a plan that will result in the destruction of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
View ArticleDespite Dubious Evidence of Safety, You May Soon Be Eating Unlabeled...
Environmental and consumer protection groups are crying foul.
View ArticleWill Plans for Massive Tunnels to Pipe Northern California Water South Mean a...
Where will the industry get the water for fracking on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley and coastal areas, including Monterey County where large Monterey Shale deposits are located?
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LA City Council Members Call for Fracking Moratorium
The measure would outlaw fracking by changing the city's zoning laws.LA City Councilmembers Paul Koretz and Mike Bonin on Wednesday, September 4 called for a fracking moratorium in Los Angeles at a...
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California Poised to Enact Dangerous Fracking Bill
A bill that started out aimed at protecting Californians from fracking veered off course. Sacramento -- Senate Bill 4, a controversial bill sponsored by Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) that...
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