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22 A Jan 17 - Feb 1, 2019 VOL.38 • ISS. 3 Jerry Brown Claims Delta Tunnels ‘Will Be Built’ In Exit Interview much out of the Delta after the tunnels were constructed “would be constrained by our wise water laws.” The day after Governor Brown said the Delta Tunnels will be built, documents released to the Planning and Conservation League via a California Public Records Act request revealed the details of a contro- versial No Harm Agreement” between the California Department of Water Resources and the Federal Bureau of Reclamation regarding the California WaterFix, according to Restore the Delta (RTD). Also included in the document release was a “Letter of Dismissal,” a document demanding that specific water districts and local government agencies abandon their case-in-chiefs opposing WaterFix before the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB). This was not previously reported in media accounts of the water deal cut between the Brown and Trump administra- tions,. You can read both documents here: https://www.restorethedelta.org/wp-content/ uploads/Letter-Re-Dismissals-1.pdf The “Letter of Dismissal” — a statement of DWR’s expectations of specific parties to withdraw from WaterFix hearings — does not indicate that the listed parties have agreed to the terms asserted by the Department of Water Resources within the letter itself, according to Barbara Barrig- an-Parrilla-Par- rilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta. “The ‘Letter of Dismissal’ by DWR’s Karla Nemeth addressed to specific parties participating in the WaterFix hearings reads like a “surrender Dorothy” demand Terry 100 Rounds – absolute in its Raahauge’s Sporting Clays insistence without Only $35 any indication of Memorial Hunt Feb. 9th 1000 Rounds Pheasants $25 Ea Sporting Clays Only $320 interest in cooper- ation by the listed Chukar $15 Ea Company or Corporate shoots parties,” said available at reasonable prices! Barrigan-Parrilla. BOOK EARLY! “It seems like 45 Miles North of Sacramento www.lincraahauges.com • traahauge@yahoo.com Governor Brown’s t an event at the Sacramento Press Club that I attended on December 18 entitled, “Jerry Brown, the Exit Interview,” Brown reflected on his five decades in public office, the state of political discourse in the country and the future of the Golden State. After journalist and author Miriam Pawel and Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton asked Brown a number of wide- ranging questions, during the question and answer period, KCRA 3 asked him about what would happen to his two biggest projects, the Delta Tunnels and High Speed Rail, after he leaves the Governor’s Office in January. “They’ll be built in a timely responsible way,” Brown said in reference to both projects. “There’s no real objection to the idea of a conveyance around the Delta,” said Brown, dismissing the massive opposi- tion and pile of lawsuits by a plethora of counties, cities, Tribes, fishing groups, envi- ronmental justice advocates, Delta residents, family farmers, conservation groups and elected officials to the project. “The Delta will be destroyed unless we build some sort of peripheral canal or tunnel.” The Governor also said those who fear that the water contractors will pump too Pheasant, Chukar and Sporting Clays At Its Finest • 3 PHEASANTS FOR ...$92 • 8 CHUKARS FOR.......$154 3 Pheasants & • 12 PHEASANTS FOR $336 100 Sporting Clays • 3 PHEASANTS + $125 4 CHUKARS FOR ....$164 17 Station Sporting Clay Course! 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Brown has also “denounced” Agreement” reads on the surface simply as a the federal proposal to open up new federal oil deal cut between DWR (the junior water rights and gas drilling leases. holder) and the Bureau of Reclamation (the However, the Governor’s Office press senior water rights holder), details contradict releases and most media outlets neglected DWR’s case-in-chief before the State Water to mention that Brown’s oil and gas regula- Resources Control for the WaterFix tunnels, tors, at the same time that Brown portrays calling the accuracy of the assumptions in the himself as an “opponent” of offshore drilling, “No Harm Agreement” into question. approved 238 NEW offshore oil wells in state In the fourth paragraph under Explanatory waters under existing leases off Los Angeles Recitals, the agreement states: and Ventura counties from 2012 to 2016. “DWR and Reclamation submitted the joint That’s increase of 17 percent, according to petition to add points of diversion for the State Water Project “SWP” and Central Valley Project data released in a report issued by Fractracker Alliance in February 2017. “CVP” to the California State Water Resources Then on June 20, 2018, Consumer Watchdog Control Board (“State Water Board”) for the launched a web site that allows you to compare California WaterFix (“CWF Change Petition”).“ “Yet, in their case-in-chief before the SWRCB, California offshore wells under the control of Governor Jerry Brown and President Donald DWR and the Bureau have petitioned for a Trump. change-in-the-point of diversion permit to begin “Brown has called Trump’s federal offshore construction of the Delta tunnels, not an addition oil drilling short-sighed and reckless, but the for points of diversion,” said Barrigan-Parrilla. “An addition of diversion points for the SWP and site shows Brown controls four times more oil wells in state waters than those Trump controls the CVP would require the Brown and Trump administrations to seek new water rights from the in federal waters,” according to Liza Tucker, consumer advocate for Consumer Watchdog. Delta and would have required a different case We need to put political pressure on the new presentation with different facts to the SWRCB.” Governor, Gavin Newson, to make sure that he DWR’s argument has been that they already does the right thing and breaks with the many obtained the water rights for the project, despite bad environmental policies of Jerry Brown, proposing that the intakes should be located in new places with the Delta. RTD and other parties including the Delta Tunnels. I will be covering Newsom’s appointments to key environmental made the case that DWR’s permit to continue posts and the actions he takes in the next adding diversion capability to the State Water several months. Project expired in December 2009, according to In October, Newsom told George Skelton RTD. of the Los Angeles Times that he will keep Tim Stroshane , Restore the Delta’s Policy building the California WaterFix, but would Analyst, commented on the significance of the like to scale it back to one tunnel. “No Harm Agreement. “I’d like to see a more modest proposal, but “The ‘No Harm Agreement’ reveals the Bureau I’m not going to walk away. Doing nothing is asserting its seniority in the Delta to protect its not an option…. The status quo is not helping water contractors’ deliveries from overreach salmon,” Newsom said. by DWR’s Tunnels operations (assuming the For more information, go to: http://www. project is built). These agreements undermine latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-john- DWR’s case before the Water Board that they’re cox-gavin-newsom-california-governor-debate- proceeding arm-in-arm with the Bureau on this 20181011-story.html project, when the agreements reveal that Recla- Let’s hope that recreational anglers, commer- mation and its CVP contractors view the Tunnels cial fishermen, Tribal leaders, conservationists project with fear and hostility. There may not be any rush to surrender as DWR hopes,” Stroshane and environmental justice advocates are able to change Newsom’s mind on the California concluded. Unfortunately, the Delta Tunnels project is just WaterFix and other key environmental issues. one of many of Brown’s questionable environ- mental policies. 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