State Senator Lois Wolk told the Stockton Record editorial board the peripheral canal, “is too expensive and ‘won’t ever get done.’”
Like me, Wolk is also deeply disappointed in Senate President Pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg. The Record said she is “dumbfounded” by Steinberg’s role in crafting [...]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger offered an idea Monday that he says might have less political opposition than building a peripheral canal to transport water around the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta. It would be an underground canal -- similar to the one in his movie "Total Recall." The governor actually [...]
Assemblymember Alyson Huber (D-El Dorado Hills) today delivered 2000 postcards to the Governor’s office. The postcards are from Delta residents who are opposed to Governor Schwarzenegger’s plan to build a peripheral canal.
“I have heard from my constituents – residents of the Delta region – and they have said loud [...]
On Monday, Assemblymember Alyson Huber will deliver 2,000 postcards to Governor Schwarzenegger from Delta residents, including me, who are opposed to the construction of a peripheral canal. The postcards are to remind the Governor of the strong opposition Delta residents have toward his canal plan.
Earlier this [...]
By Dan Bacher
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the worst Governor for fish and the environment in California history, today praised the Legislature for its passage of a water package including an $11 billion bond that provides a clear path to the construction of the peripheral canal and more dams.
"Water" [...]
by David M. Greenwald
Editor
California Progress Report
While the Governor and Democratic Leadership are lauding the water deal as an historic achievement, local leaders and environmental groups are lamenting it as the prelude to a peripheral canal that will end the delta as we know [...]
A bill which would prohibit the construction of a peripheral canal around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta without a full fiscal analysis and a vote of the state legislature won’t even get a chance. Considered a long shot to begin with, the bill, AB13×7, by Assemblywoman Alyson Huber [...]
By Dan Bacher
Sierra Club California is strongly urging everybody to take action NOW to stop legislation that could authorize the construction of two dams and a peripheral canal approximately the size and length of the Panama Canal around the Delta.
"We need your help today in order to" [...]
"Coming into Monday, there was a single piece of introduced legislation in the special water session," said Steve Evans, [...]
By Dan Bacher
In a letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on October 23, Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-Pleasanton) criticized plans to build a peripheral canal and the exclusion of input from Delta residents in the current Delta/water bill package now being considered by the California legislature.
The letter reiterates [...]
The influential Westlands Water District and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California are getting behind the latest iteration of a a legislative water compromise in part "because they believe it brings the Peripheral Canal closer to reality," according to reports from the Capitol Weekly.
Ready to put their money where [...]
