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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…
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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…
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Massive Loss of Endangered Winter Run Salmon
During April, May and early June, perhaps half of this years spawning population of endangered winter-run Chinook salmon were drawn into the irrigation channels of the Yolo Bypass and Colusa Basin and stranded. Approximately 300 fish were rescued and returned to the Sacramento River but most were lost. The majority of those rescued were in…
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CSPA Sues Delta Stewardship Council over Delta Plan
On 17 June 2013, the California Sportsfishing Protection Alliance joined the California Water Impact Network, AquAlliance, Friends of the River, Center For Biological Diversity and Restore the Delta in filling a lawsuit against the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan and Environmental Impact Report. The lawsuit alleges numerous explicit violations of the statutory requirements of the…
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EWC, CSPA Release Updated Solution to California Water Crisis
CSPA worked closely with the Environmental Water Caucus to develop and update the EWC California Water Solutions Now report that establishes both a path and goal for restoring devastated Bay-Delta fisheries while meeting the water supply needs of California. The report identifies six fundamental criteria and ten basic principles of water policy reform. Previous plans…
