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CSPA, Coalition Submit Comments on BDCP Reasonable Range of Alternatives
On 4 September 2014, CSPA, Friends of the River, the Environmental Water Caucus and California Water Impact Network sent a letter regarding consideration of a reasonable range of alternative in any recirculated draft Plan, EIR/EIS and Implementing Agreement for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). In response to thousands of highly critical comments, BDCP announced
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CSPA Releases 14-Point Analysis/Opposition to Water Bond
On 3 September 2014, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) released a 14-Point Analysis and Statement of Opposition to the Proposition 1 Water Bond that is on the 4 November 2014 ballot. The $7.5 billion Bond includes $2.7 billion for new dams and is a serious threat to the Delta and Central Valley rivers and
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CSPA, Coalition Request Extension of Review Period for Statewide Pest EIR
On 2 September 2014, CSPA and 14 other environmental and health organizations sent a letter to the California Department of Food and Agriculture requesting a 90-day time extension of the public review period for the Statewide Plant Pest Prevention Programmatic Environmental Impact Report. The letter pointed out that the minimum 45-day review period was insufficient
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EPA Comments put BDCP on Life Support; Prognosis Poor
The controversial Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) that proposes to construct two 35-mile long tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to divert Sacramento River water to agricultural plantations in the deserts of southern California was placed on life support following the USEPA’s scathing 43-page comment letter on the BDCP’s draft EIR/EIS. DWR announced that a
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CSPA Opposes Dam Building Water Bond
CSPA has carefully reviewed the provisions of Assembly Bill 1471, Water Quality, Supply and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, which is on the 4 November 2014 ballot as Proposition 1, Water Bond, and concludes that it represents a grave and insidious threat to core environmental values and principles buttressing protection for fisheries and the environment. Furthermore,
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