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/><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Dan Bacher</st1:PersonName>
[mailto:danielbacher@fishsniffer.com] <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, July 18, 2008 1:08
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Stephen Bechtel Jr.
Funds Peripheral Canal Report!</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva">Stephen Bechtel Jr. Funds
Peripheral Canal Report!</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=apple-style-span><FONT face=Geneva size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva">The people and foundations who fund
"scientific" reports and studies often reveal what is the real agenda behind the
publishing of any document. </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=apple-style-span><FONT face=Geneva size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva">A new Public Policy Institute
(PPIC) report recommending the construction of a peripheral canal on the
California Delta, "Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta," was
released yesterday with wild acclamation by the Governor and the state's water
contractors, since it "scientifically" justifies the destruction of the West
Coast's largest estuary by building a canal.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=apple-style-span><FONT face=Geneva size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva">Little noticed in the media reports
was where the funding came from. According to the PPIC's press release:
"The new report, Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, builds
on the findings of a 2007 PPIC study by the same team, which concluded that the
need for a new Delta strategy is urgent. The new report was funded in part by
Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. and the David and Lucile Packard
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=apple-style-span><FONT face=Geneva size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva">Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. (born 1925)
is, with his son Riley, co-owner of the Bechtel Corporation. He is the son of
Stephen David Bechtel, Sr. and grandson of Warren A. Bechtel who founded the
Bechtel Corporation, the world's largest engineering firm.
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=apple-style-span><FONT face=Geneva size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva">Bechtel Corporation, as well as
being a war profiteer instrumental in the "reconstruction" of
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, is a leading advocate
throughout the world of the privatization of water systems. It was Bechtel that
sued the country of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Bolivia</st1:place></st1:country-region> for canceling a contract
there sponsored by the World Bank.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=apple-style-span><FONT face=Geneva size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva">A CorpWatch report, "Profiting
from Destruction," provides case studies from Bechtel's history of
operating in the water, nuclear, energy and public works sectors. These case
studies reveal a legacy of unsustainable and destructive practices that have
reaped permanent human, environmental and community devastation around the
globe. Letters from "Bechtel affected communities" included in the report
provide first-hand descriptions of these impacts, from <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Bolivia</st1:country-region> to Native American lands in <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nevada</st1:place></st1:State>. The report
reveals a 100-year history spent capitalizing on the most brutal technologies,
reaping immense profits and ignoring the social and environmental costs. For
more information, go to <A
href="">http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=6975</A></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=apple-style-span><FONT face=Geneva size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva">Another CorpWatch
report, </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><A href=""><SPAN class=apple-style-span><FONT
face=Geneva color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva; TEXT-DECORATION: none">http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=6670</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
class=apple-style-span><FONT face=Geneva><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Geneva">,
details "Bechtel's Water Wars" in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Bolivia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Fortunately, the people of
Cochabama rebelled against Bechtel's scheme to privatize their water system and
won. </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=apple-style-span><FONT face=Geneva size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva">The role of Bechtel in funding the
PPIC report must be exposed. Are the scientists who authored this report aware
of Bechtel's record of devastation across the globe? And will Bechtel profit
from the destruction of the California Delta fish, farms and people if a
peripheral canal is built? These are both questions that must be
asked!</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><SPAN class=apple-style-span><FONT
face=Geneva size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva">Central
Valley</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN class=apple-style-span><FONT
face=Geneva><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Geneva"> chinook salmon and Delta fish
populations are in a state of collapse, largely due to massive increases in
water exports from the Delta in recent years. A broad coalition of recreational
anglers, commercial fishermen, Delta farmers, Indian Tribes and
environmentalists is opposed to the peripheral canal because it would result in
the diversion of more water from the Delta and further exacerbate the current
fishery collapses. The PPIC report amounts being to an "elaborate sales
brochure" for the peripheral canal, quipped Bill Jennings, excecutive director
of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT
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