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  • Public comment period for Delta tunnels ends

    http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140802/A_NEWS/408020316 By Alex Breitler August 02, 2014 12:00 AM The state asked for comments. And they got ’em. Officials on Friday said they are beginning the process of wading through 10,000 to 11,000 public comments on the governor’s twin tunnels plan for the Delta. The deadline to comment was Tuesday. The letters have not been…

  • Delta tunnel plan called a fish death sentence by key group

    http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Delta-tunnel-plan-blasted-by-key-environmental-5657902.php Carolyn Jones Updated 7:54 am, Thursday, July 31, 2014 The state’s plan to build a pair of 35-mile tunnels under the delta would cause the extinction of winter-run chinook salmon, steep declines in dozens of other species and devastate water quality in San Francisco Bay, an environmental group said Wednesday. “This project would be…

  • Greenwashing Destruction: Fake Marine “Protection” and Brown’s Tunnel Plan

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/29/1317500/-Greenwashing-Destruction Dan Bacher TUE JUL 29, 2014 AT 06:20 AM PDT Today, July 29, is the final day of the public comment period for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels and the Environmental Impact Statement/Report (EIS/EIR). Restore the Delta and other groups opposed to the construction of the twin tunnels…

  • Six Rivers National Forest Just Got 320 Acres Bigger

    http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2014/jul/23/six-rivers-national-forest-just-got-320-acres-bigg/ Mike Dronkers 23 July 2014 @ 5:28 p.m. So basically, the Forest Service acquired 160 acres (apparently with oil company money) from the Smith River Alliance, who then handed over another adjacent 160 acres. Both organizations are pretty excited, since the Smith River, its Siskiyou Fork, and Hurdygurdy Creek are premiere salmon spawning grounds.…

  • Judge shoots down lawsuit that some claim would save Delta habitat, groundwater and fish

    http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/judge-shoots-down-lawsuit-that/content?oid=14086002 By Alastair Bland 7.17.14 Smelt, considered to be canary in the coal mine for entire Sacramento River and Delta ecosystem, at the verge of extinction The effort to stop sending river water from the Sacramento Delta down south took a hit this past week. Now, a species of fish considered to be the canary…