The Shasta Dam raise proposed by the federal government threatens over 40 of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe's sacred sites and would harm salmon, steelhead and other imperiled fish populations on the Sacramento River.
At the same time, water from the Trinity Reservoir on the Trinity River and Shasta Reservoir on the Sacramento is exported hundreds of miles to benefit California’s agriculture industry, which continues to use 80% of California’s water on water intensive crops such as almonds during the record drought.
Want to find out more about this water grab and how you can help stop it in order to restore the Klamath/Trinity and Sacramento River systems? Then check out a film night hosted by North Coast activists in Arcata, California on Friday, May 8th to discuss the threats to Northern California's rivers.
The film night will focus on impacts to rivers from water diversions and how politicians and corporate agriculture interests are using the drought to push through new harmful water projects, such as the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, Shasta dam raise, and drought legislation, according to organizer Regina Chichizola.
The event will start with a dinner at 6:30 at Arcata’s D Street Community Center, which is located at 1301 D street, and will be followed by several short films along with speakers that are members of the Winnemem Wintu, Yurok, Karuk, and Hoopa Valley Tribes, along with featured filmmakers.
Caleen Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe will speak about the Tribe's campaign to restore winter run Chinook salmon to the McCloud River and to fight the "Brown Water Plan" and Shasta Dam raise.
Governor Jerry Brown and Department of Interior officials are expected to announce the latest version of Brown's plan to build the twin tunnels under the Delta as early as Thursday, April 30. Brown has decided to remove all pretense of "habitat restoration" from the plan by making it a tunnels-only project.
The tunnels will hasten the extinction of Central Valley Chinook salmon and steelhead, Delta and longfin smelt, green sturgeon and other fish species, as well as imperiling the salmon and steelhead populations on the Trinity and Klamath rivers.
Donations will be taken but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. More information is available at SavetheKlamath-Trinity on facebook or through contacting Regina Chichizola at klamathrights@gmail.com or 541 951-0126.
Volunteers are needed to help out with the event.