How megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick built their billion-dollar empire. The Resnicks are known for their billion-dollar-feel-good empire, including brands like Teleflora, Fiji Water, and Wonderful Pistachios (famously known for its “Get Crackin’” ad campaign). But most folks aren’t aware … Continue reading
Faulty Delta Stewardship Council Plan and EIR Stopped 6.23.16: We won! The Delta Stewardship Council’s poorly-crafted Plan to reduce reliance on water exports from the Delta, provide a reliable supply of water, and protect and enhance water quality from the Delta failed … Continue reading
Thanks to the Chico Enterprise-Record for speaking out on our critical North State water issues! Below are some excerpts from the editorial — to read it in full, please click: Trump lives in fact-free world 6.6.16 … Talking and pandering to a group of … Continue reading
by Robert Speer Chico News & Review, 11.12.15 Crises have a way of compelling change. California’s four-year drought has forced us to confront, once and for all, the scarcity of the state’s most precious resource, its water. A … Continue reading
3.20.16, Modesto Bee: For years now, Gov. Jerry Brown has been telling us that he will save the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – the greatest fresh-water estuary on this side of the continent – by taking water out of it. Environmental … Continue reading
3.18.16, Contra Costa Times: Give it up, governor. Gov. Jerry Brown is counting on the Westlands Water District to be one of the major financial backers of his $15 billion Delta tunnels, easily the largest public works project in U.S. history. It’s … Continue reading
by Dan Bacher, Daily Kos.com 3.10.16: Westlands Water District, considered to be the “Darth Vader” of California water politics by leaders of fishing groups, Indian Tribes and environmental organizations, is in boiling hot water with the federal Securities and Exchange … Continue reading
3 Oil/Gas Wells Listed on Brown’s Family Homestead by Red Smith 2.10.16: Recently California Governor Jerry Brown came under fire for the use of public funds to conduct a geological survey on his family property in Colusa County. The Governors … Continue reading
Protest of CSPA, C-WIN & AquAlliance of the Petitions “Requesting Changes in Water Rights of the Department of Water Resources and US Bureau of Reclamation of the California Waterfix Project” Click here to view the Protest document. (Yellow highlights show our specific section, although … Continue reading
New York Times, 12.31.15: A powerful article about the political clout of Westlands Water District: “A water utility on paper, Westlands in practice is a formidable political force, a $100 million-a-year agency with five lobbying firms under contract in … Continue reading
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