FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 18, 2015 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; [email protected]; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 [email protected]; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… Fresno Bee: Valley Voices Esperanza Vielma: Gov. Brown, abandon delta tunnels plan By Esperanza Vielma 6/13/15 Excerpts: “Growers are paying farmworkers to ride buses to serve as props for their pro-delta tunnels campaign “Pro-tunnels growers decry pollution of rural drinking water — which their pesticides polluted “We who live and work in the delta need water, fish and farms … “…My personal perspective leads me to strongly oppose the governor’s massive underground water export tunnels. It saddens me to see huge growers and water exporters using farmworkers’ unemployment to push for even more exports that [...]
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Sac Bee Viewpoints: Delta plans completely ignore non-English speakers
Sacramento Bee Viewpoints: Delta plans completely ignore non-English speakers By Javier Padilla Reyes Special to The Bee Published: Wednesday, Jun. 18, 2014 – 12:00 am The reckless indifference of Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration in failing to provide adequate access and participation for non-English speaking Californians shows that the state’s rush to build the twin Delta tunnels at all costs effectively disregards nearly 600,000 Delta residents and 20 percent of California’s population. The Bay Delta Conservation Plan’s environmental impact report for the twin tunnels project is notoriously huge. With more than 40,000 pages full of legalese, even native English speakers can’t help but feel overwhelmed. Now, imagine that the overwhelming amount of information is available only in a language entirely different [...]
BDCP Violates Non-English Speakers’ Civil Rights To Call for Restart & Extension of Public Comment Time; No Access to BDCP for Limited-English Speakers
Media Advisory for Thursday, May 29, 2014 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; [email protected]; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 [email protected]; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Environmental Justice Representatives: BDCP Violates Non-English Speakers’ Civil Rights To Call for Restart & Extension of Public Comment Time; No Access to BDCP for Limited-English Speakers Sacramento, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents of Gov. Brown’s rush to build Peripheral Tunnels that would drain the Delta and doom sustainable farms, and salmon and other Pacific fisheries, announced today they will hold a teleconference on Thursday, May 29, calling on State and Federal officials to restart and extend the public comment period for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and its EIR/S and to do adequate public outreach to [...]
