http://yubanet.com/california/Environmental-Water-Caucus-requests-extension-of-BDCP-comment-period.php#.UrzMOPRDuSo By: Dan Bacher Dec. 20, 2013 – The Environmental Water Caucus on December 19 sent a letter to federal and state authorities asking for an 120 day extension in the public review and comment period for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan Draft Plan and EIR and EIS, noting that the 40,214 actual pages of…

http://www.postindependent.com/opinion/9385035-113/bill-rivers-fish-federal By Nathan Fey and Matt Rice, Guest Opinion Last week Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) wrote a column for this newspaper touting his so-called “Water Rights Protection Act” (H.R. 3189) and its supporters. His claim that the bill is supported by conservation groups just isn’t true. To our knowledge, no conservation group has supported Rep. Tipton’s bill…

http://www.rivernewsherald.org/articles2013/tunnel_12-18-2013.html By Galen Kusic, Editor Californians for a Fair Water Policy protested the beginning of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) Environmental Impact Report/Statement 120-day public comment review period for the second time in a week at the State Capitol on Friday. Only this time, even more speakers were present to denounce Gov. Jerry Brown’s $24.7 billion…

http://www.norcalfishingnews.com/stories/bill_jennings:_in_defense_of_the_delta?id=1207 Bill Jennings, Executive Director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, made a direct and impactful speech Friday on the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento in protest of the Bay/Delta Conservation Plan and in defense of the Delta and its fisheries. We reprint it in its entirety:  So, on this Friday the 13th the BDCP…

http://yubanet.com/california/Dan-Bacher-Feds-kill-fall-salmon-eggs-on-Sacramento-River.php#.Urajg_RDuSo By: Dan Bacher The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is one of the biggest killers of salmon and salmon eggs in California every year – and this year is no exception. The Obama administration has continued and expanded the Bush administration war on salmon and other fish, as evidenced by the Bureau’s sharp cut in…