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Epidemic of Comprehension: Outbreak of articles on break-up of BDCP
Following news that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will not issue 50-year environmental permits for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) an epidemic of comprehension has spread, resulting in an outbreak of articles on the break-up of BDCP. On April 11, 2015 the San Jose Mercury News published Delta tunnels: Major changes to environmental restoration…
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CSPA, Coalition Issue Comments on BDCP Scoping Process
On 10 September 2014, CSPA, Friends of the River, the Environmental Water Caucus and California Water Impact Network sent a letter regarding the scoping process for recirculated Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) documents. BDCP announced that it would shortly announce the scope of documents to be recirculated in the near future. The Coalition pointed out…
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CSPA, Coalition Submit Comments on BDCP Reasonable Range of Alternatives
On 4 September 2014, CSPA, Friends of the River, the Environmental Water Caucus and California Water Impact Network sent a letter regarding consideration of a reasonable range of alternative in any recirculated draft Plan, EIR/EIS and Implementing Agreement for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). In response to thousands of highly critical comments, BDCP announced…
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CSPA Releases 14-Point Analysis/Opposition to Water Bond
On 3 September 2014, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) released a 14-Point Analysis and Statement of Opposition to the Proposition 1 Water Bond that is on the 4 November 2014 ballot. The $7.5 billion Bond includes $2.7 billion for new dams and is a serious threat to the Delta and Central Valley rivers and…
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EPA Comments put BDCP on Life Support; Prognosis Poor
The controversial Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) that proposes to construct two 35-mile long tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to divert Sacramento River water to agricultural plantations in the deserts of southern California was placed on life support following the USEPA’s scathing 43-page comment letter on the BDCP’s draft EIR/EIS. DWR announced that a…
