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CSPA Joins with CWIN, PCFFA and AquAlliance in Commenting on Delta Plan and EIR
On 2 February 2012, the Law Offices of Michael Jackson, representing the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, California Water Impact Network, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Associations and AquAlliance submitted extensive comments on the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan and Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The 64-page comment letter detailed numerous inadequacies in both the Delta Plan
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CSPA ALERT! ACTION NEEDED NOW! WRITE A LETTER TO THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION ABOUT STRIPED BASS REGULATION PROPOSAL TO BE HEARD AT FEBRUARY 2, 2012 MEETING
It is time to write that letter to the California State Fish and Game Commission. Why is this important? If we don’t turn back this cynical and spiteful effort by San Joaquin Valley agribusiness, we stand to lose an outstanding striped bass fishery and its Delta protecting constituency. Furthermore, leading fisheries biologists believe that the
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CSPA Sues Bureau Over CVP Contracts
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), North Coast River Alliance, Friends of the River and the Winneman Wintu Tribe have sued the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), in Federal Court, over interim Central Valley Project water delivery contracts. Specifically, the lawsuit challenges the Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for eleven interim
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Major Victory for CSPA: East Bay MUD Abandons Plan To Raise Pardee Dam
The East Bay Municipal Utilities District has thrown in the towel and will no longer pursue a plan to raise Pardee Dam. Pardee Dam, which backs up the Mokelumne River in Amador and Calaveras counties, creates Pardee Reservoir, EBMUD’s largest storage reservoir. EBMUD’s decision removes a threat to drown another two or more miles of
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CSPA to FERC: The Standard License Reopener is Always Closed
Statement of Chris Shutes, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, on the reality of standard reopeners in hydropower licenses Before the Study Dispute Panel, Yuba River Development Project (P-2246,Yuba County Water Agency) relicensing proceeding before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Sacramento, California, November 30, 2011. Study Dispute between National Marine Fisheries Service and FERC Office of Energy
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