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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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Coalition Requests Emergency Action on Scott River
CSPA joined with the Karuk Tribe, California Coastkeeper Alliance, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Associations, Earth Law Center and Klamath Riverkeeper in requesting that the State Water Resources Control Board and California Department of Fish and Wildlife take emergency action to increase flows in the Scott River. The request included a proposed emergency plan to…
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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 and Allies Warn of Looming Salmon Apocalypse in California
CSPA, AquAlliance and the California Water Impact Network is calling attention to poor government policy that could doom salmon runs in a press release. Currently the Sacramento River is providing exports south of the Delta, draining reservoirs of cold water needed to ensure the survival of native salmon in the Central Valley. Federal and state…
