• CSPA Rips Economic Analysis at BDCP Finance Meeting

    CSPA assailed the Bay Delta Conservation Program’s statewide economic assessment prepared by the Brattle Group at the BDCP Finance Committee’s 8 August 2013 meeting in West Sacramento.  The study claimed that construction of twin tunnels to divert the Sacramento River around the Delta would result in statewide economic benefits. Bill Jennings, CSPA’s Executive Director, testified…

  • CSPA Assails Deceptive BDCP Impact Study

    Today, CSPA, CWIN and AquAlliance issued a press release assailing the deceptive BDCP economic impact study released by the Brown Administration.  BDCP’s tunnel scheme will saddle ratepayers with more than $50 billion in debt and imperil the Delta estuary and its tributary waters.  BDCP is predicated on the irrational assumption that you can restore an…

  • Fact Sheet: BDCP and Fish Losses at the Pumps

    CSPA has prepared a short fact sheet on fish losses at the State and Federal Project water export facilities in the South Delta.  Proponents of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and its peripheral tunnels suggest that only by diverting water from the Sacramento River can the Delta be restored because of immense fishery losses…

  • CSPA Joins Coalition Letter to Interior Requesting Revised Notice of Intent for BDCP

    CSPA and a coalition of environmental and fishing organizations sent a 5 May 2011 letter to Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes requesting that the U.S. Department of the Interior revise the Notice of Intent (NOI) for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP).  The letter requests that the NOI be revised so that it…

  • CSPA and Others Attempt to Stop the Hijacking of Delta Water at ‘Closed Door’ Meeting…

    Delta and Fishing Activists Disrupt Secret Delta Meetings For Immediate Release — September 30, 2010 Bill Jennings – 209-464-5067 Dan Bacher – 916-685-2245, ext. 224 Brett Baker – 916-719-6586 A Thursday morning meeting of Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) principals was disrupted by a fisherman, two environmentalists, and a Delta farmer protesting the closed process.…