Do you want to help celebrate St. Patrick's Day by doing something "green" for the Delta, Central Valley rivers and salmon? Here's your chance.
Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents of Gov. Brown’s rush to build Peripheral Tunnels that would drain the Delta and doom salmon and other Pacific fisheries, will address a forum in Sacramento today Monday, March 17, to outline the damage the governor’s project would do to the Sacramento area and the San Francisco/San Joaquin Bay delta and estuary.
“The governor proposes to sacrifice salmon and other fisheries, sustainable farming and wise water management to mainly benefit the top 1% of corporate agribusiness in the Westlands and Kern County Water districts,” said RTD Executive Director Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla.
Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director, Restore the Delta, will talk to the ECOS (Environmental Council of Sacramento) meeting today at 6:00 pm, 1325 S Street, in Sacramento.
Resistance to the peripheral tunnels is building throughout the state. A broad coalition of Delta farmers, fishermen, Indian Tribes, grassroots environmentalists, elected officials and Delta residents oppose the tunnels because their construction would hasten the extinction of Central Valley salmon and Delta fish populations, as well as imperil the salmon and steelhead populations on the Trinity and Klamath rivers.
The alleged "habitat restoration" proposed under the plan would take vast tracts of Delta farmland, among the most fertile on the planet, out of agricultural production to continue irrigating toxic, drainage-impaired land on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley.
Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta