Comments closed on the EIR/EIS for the BDCP yesterday. Restore The Delta organized a protest at the Sacramento Capitol where they delivered thousands of signatures against the plan to siphon 9K CFS of Sacramento River water to the #ThirstyBillionaires growing permanent crops in the Southern San Joaquin Valley. Mavens Notebook had a host of links to the comments that are pouring against this disaster of a plan.
From John Garamendi “The twin tunnels project is being unilaterally implemented under authority claimed through the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), which is ironic given how destructive the tunnels will be to the Delta and how they completely fail to meet the law’s co-equal goals of water supply reliability and ecosystem restoration,”
From Jared Huffman - “Congressman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) today led a letter to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) outlining a strong opposition to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). The letter, cosigned by California Reps. George Miller, Mike Thompson, Doris Matsui, John Garamendi, Barbara Lee, Jackie Speier, and Jerry McNerney, was offered as part of the public review and comment period, which ends today. The letter states: “Implementing the BDCP as presently described would be far too expensive, it would undermine the health of the Bay-Delta estuary and Northern California fisheries, it would harm tribes as well as communities in the Bay-Delta region, and it would violate numerous state and federal laws – including several laws that the authors of this letter have written and championed.”
Please go read.
The hubbie and I attended. Since it is far easier to post tweets with photos than dealing with the image library (Which really isn't that hard, but I wanted to do both) Here is my twitter line of the protest.
The other side of the hubbies sign says - Quit Planting Almonds - yes he is provocative!
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