I'll only quote the beginning of the article; please go to the link to read the entire article.
"We finally have an interim something from the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, although it isn't what the steering committee intended to have at this point: a quick fix for the Delta ecosystem that would let them get all their exports back.
Westlands has thrown a fit and pulled out of the process; the state is making placating noises about building a conveyance (in this economy? with what environmental protections?); and the U.S. Department of the Interior may or may not be on board for the same conveyance, depending on how we read comments from Secretary of the Interior Salazar and Deputy Secretary Hayes. (This is not a good time for the Obama administration to run afoul of agribusiness, wealthy water districts, or private equity investors looking to make money on water.)
The Five Delta Counties gave Lester Snow some suggestions for improving the BDCP planning process. They said that the Steering Committee should be “reconstituted as a true stakeholder body with authority to make decisions on the BDCP based on votes of its membership.""
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"We finally have an interim something from the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, although it isn't what the steering committee intended to have at this point: a quick fix for the Delta ecosystem that would let them get all their exports back.
Westlands has thrown a fit and pulled out of the process; the state is making placating noises about building a conveyance (in this economy? with what environmental protections?); and the U.S. Department of the Interior may or may not be on board for the same conveyance, depending on how we read comments from Secretary of the Interior Salazar and Deputy Secretary Hayes. (This is not a good time for the Obama administration to run afoul of agribusiness, wealthy water districts, or private equity investors looking to make money on water.)
The Five Delta Counties gave Lester Snow some suggestions for improving the BDCP planning process. They said that the Steering Committee should be “reconstituted as a true stakeholder body with authority to make decisions on the BDCP based on votes of its membership.""
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http://restorethedelta.org/?p=675