The best-laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft a-gley. (Often go wrong.) – Robert Burns Playing favorites at the Water Board? The Central Delta Water Agency (CDWA) is calling on the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to enforce the same water quality standards against the State and federal water projects as it would...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, November 4, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… My Desert Sun: California water plan outlines broad goals By Ian James October 31, 2013 The state released a water plan Thursday laying out broad goals for alleviating a list...Read More
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 31, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Peripheral Tunnels Opponents Respond to State’s Draft Action Plan for Water: “Greenwashing the Water Grab” STOCKTON, CA – Restore the Delta, opponents of Gov. Brown’s Peripheral Tunnels that would drain the Delta and doom...Read More
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Water Bond Campaign Source, “Polling showing today that bond that’s on the 2014 ballot would go down pretty dramatically.” Points to Opposition to Damaging Delta as Key Cause What now that Gov. Brown can’t...Read More
Media Advisory for: Friday, November 1, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com SANDHILL CRANES EXPERTS TO WARN ABOUT HARM FROM PROPOSED WATER TUNNELS AS ANNUAL FESTIVAL OPENS: Water Export Tunnels Gamble with Threatened Cranes’ Survival LODI, CA – As thousands of birders gather for the annual Lodi Sandhill Crane Festival on Friday, Nov. 1, Sandhill...Read More
For Immediate Release: Monday, October 28, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Brown Administration Funding Statewide Propaganda Campaign to Sell Peripheral Tunnels: Community Groups are Paid Agents, PR FirmsSTOCKTON, CA – Restore the Delta, opponents of Gov. Brown’s rush to build Peripheral Tunnels that would drain...Read More
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 24, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053; barbara@restorethedelta.org;Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Stockton School Students Create Display: The Death of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – R.I.P. Save the Delta – Stop the Tunnels! STOCKTON, CA – Students from grades four through eight at Stockton’s Kohl Open School,...Read More
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053; barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @Restorethedelta Agency Officials Continue to Exclude Delta Views from Government-led Tours; Water Agencies, Tunnel Proponents Misrepresent Delta To Outside Interests in Push To Build The Peripheral Tunnels Stockton, CA — Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents...Read More
From the Mexican Heritage Center in Stockton, CA: The Death of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – R.I.P. (Save the Delta – Stop the Tunnels!) Day of the Dead altars (ofrendas) are built to honor the lives of those who have passed. This alter is designed to honor the life of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and...Read More
The Orange County Register Mickadeit: Delta water fight starts in SoCal By FRANK MICKADEIT 2013-10-21 16:24:32 Even as our reporter Pat Brennan was writing last Sunday’s huge front-page curtain-raiser on the state’s $25 billion proposal to radically alter the Sacramento Delta and send more water to Southern California, opposition was conferencing at an Irvine hotel....Read More
