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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=danielbacher@fishsniffer.com
href="mailto:danielbacher@fishsniffer.com">Dan Bacher</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 03, 2009 1:06 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Schwarzenegger Starts 2009 by Shoving Peripheral Canal Down
the California Taxpayer’s Throat </DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Photo of Governor
Schwarzenegger calling for a special session of the California Legislature to
deal with the budget deficit while pushing for a canal that would indebt
generations of Californians for decades to come. Photo from the Governor's
Office.</SPAN></FONT>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Schwarzenegger
Starts New Year by Shoving Peripheral Canal Down the Taxpayer�s
Throat</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">by Dan
Bacher</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger, who played a villain in the Terminator and other action flicks
during his movie career, started the New Year playing the role of the �Fish
Terminator� villain Friday by releasing an environmentally devastating plan to
break ground for the peripheral canal in 2011.</SPAN></FONT><FONT
class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Schwarzenegger,
realizing the opposition his plan faces in the State Legislature, plans to build
the �dual conveyance� facility without the approval of the Legislature or the
voters. The massive infrastructure project would feature a combination of
through-Delta flows and outside of the Delta �peripheral� conveyance, supposedly
to achieve the goals of "ecosystem restoration" and "reliable water supply" at
the same time.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial
color=#111111 size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">The Governor�s
hand-picked group of advisors, the Delta Vision Task Force, released its plan
for the California Delta on January 2, missing the original deadline of December
31. The plan was released at 4:55 p.m. in the classic example of the �Friday
night dump,� where controversial plans and documents are released by government
agencies to avoid full scrutiny by reporters and the public, preferably at the
end of a long holiday weekend.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�There is no time to
waste and we must accelerate implementation of near-term fundamental actions,�
the plan states, in an attempt to convey a sense of urgency. �Additional delay
will only compound the risk to the state and its citizens.�</SPAN></FONT><FONT
class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Fish Flows to be
Recommended after Canal Construction Begins!</SPAN></FONT><FONT
class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">The plan includes a
timeline of proposed actions and associated events for the destruction of the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest and most significant estuary on the
West Coast of the Americas. One of the amazing things about the plan is the
sequence of events and actions it includes. While the plan's goal is to �break
ground� for �new conveyance in 2011, the timeline doesn�t require the Department
of Fish and Game to �recommend in stream flows� for the Delta until
2012!</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Wouldn�t it be more
logical to only begin infrastructure construction after in stream flows for fish
are recommended and secured? This prioritization of the canal over the needs of
fish clearly demonstrates that the plans �eco language� of restoring the Delta
is nothing other than green washing of the most environmentally destructive
project in California history.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">After setting these
and other timelines, the plan claims that the �Delta ecosystem must be protected
and revitalized,� trying to demonstrate that the canal would �help fish,� in
spite of no evidence cited in the document that the conveyance would do
this.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�Fish population
crashes are only the most recent manifestations of a long decline in ecosystem
health,� it goes on. �Several factors, including habitat destruction, invasive
species and productivity losses to water diversions and flow alterations have
together gravely damaged the largest estuary on the West Coast of the United
States.�</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Unfortunately, the
implementation plan does nothing to mention the key role that massive increases
of water exports from state and federal projects have played in the collapse of
chinook salmon, steelhead, delta smelt, longfin smelt, threadfin shad, striped
bass and other Delta fish populations in recent years, only stating that �water
diversions and flow alterations� are among the many factors implicated in the
fish decline.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Crucial data on the
role of exports and other freshwater factors contained in recent independent
scientific reports on the state of trout and salmon fisheries by California
Trout, NRDC and other organizations, as well as past scientific reports by DFG
biologist Frank Fisher and other experts about the primary role of exports in
salmon declines, aren�t heeded by the Delta Vision Blue Ribbon
Panel.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">There�s No Money For
the Canal</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">The Governor�s
advisors also vow to work with the legislature �to place a comprehensive water
bond package on the next statewide ballot so that critical regional and state
infrastructure and ecosystem restoration projects can move forward.� Estimates
of the real cost of the water bond to the taxpayers would be anywhere from $12
to $24 billion � yet the Governor and State Legislature have been been battling
for months over a massive budget deficit and the Governor has already ordered
furloughs of state workers starting in February.</SPAN></FONT><FONT
class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">According to Kelly
Zito�s article in today�s S.F. Chronicle, �Delta Vision Committee members
acknowledge the financial difficulties facing the state - namely a $41.5 billion
budget deficit in 2010, but said the delta - and therefore the state's water
system - depends heavily on additional funding.�</SPAN></FONT><FONT
class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">"We're going to have
to work with Legislature," Michael Chrisman, Delta Vision Committee chairman and
secretary of resources told her. "Given the budget situation we're going through
right now, it's going to be a challenge."</SPAN></FONT><FONT
class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">More than anything
else, pushing for an enormously expensive and environmentally destructive plan
that creates the infrastructure to export more water out of the Delta - when
less water exports through increased conservation are what�s truly needed at a
time of severe economic crisis - is pure insanity and a denial of economic
reality!</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Habitat Restoration:
A Green Washing Farce</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial
color=#111111 size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">The plan does have
some language about addressing global climate change and �large scale habitat�
restoration that may appeal to some corporate-funded �environmental� groups that
are willing to sell out Delta farmers, recreational fishermen, commercial
fishermen, California Indian Tribes and Delta residents in order to have a seat
at the table with the Governor and his staff. The plant�s priorities include �an
investment commitment and strategy to restore and sustain a vibrant and diverse
Delta ecosystem including the protection and enhancement of agricultural lands
that are compatible with Plan goals.�</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">However, it�s
apparent that this is just �ecologically friendly� language to push through an
ecologically unfriendly proposal to drive Delta farmers off their land and push
the final nail in the coffin of Delta and Central Valley salmon
fisheries.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">The ultimate irony
of this proposal is that it is designed to convert much of the Delta into salt
and brackish marsh by breeching levees and taking some of the most productive
alluvial soil on the face of the planet out of agricultural production in order
to provide conveyance to irrigate drainage impaired toxic soil on the west of
the side of the San Joaquin Valley that should have been taken out of production
years ago! Why are the Governor and his �advisors� willing to destroy Delta
farming and fisheries � and the northern California economy � to provide
subsidized water to corporate agribusiness on land that should have never been
farmed?</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�This plan will turn
the Delta into a Disneyland-type of park to provide historical reminiscences of
what the estuary once was,� said Barbara Barrigan Parrillla, campaign
coordinator of Restore the Delta. �However, it doesn�t matter if you put every
piece of land in the Delta into habitat, it won�t make any difference to fish
restoration if water is not allowed to flow through the Delta naturally. If the
water isn�t there, more habitat won�t help the fish.�</SPAN></FONT><FONT
class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Very well said,
Barbara!</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">New Year Brings New
Name For Resources Agency</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial
color=#111111 size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">As the Governor and
Delta Vision panel were finishing up their peripheral canal plan, a release from
the Resources Agency on December 29 proclaimed that �The Resources Agency will
adopt a new name, the California Natural Resources Agency, on Jan. 1, 2009 to
better reflect its primary mission. Since 1961, the Resources Agency has been
responsible for the safeguarding and stewardship of California�s precious
natural resources.�</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial
color=#111111 size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">In July, Gov.
Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 1464 (Maldonado) authorizing the Resources
Agency to change its name to the California Natural Resources Agency. �The new
Agency logo will remain largely the same and the change will be phased in
gradually as new supplies are ordered. In this way there will be little or no
cost to the Agency or any of its departments, boards or commissions save for any
replacement costs that would normally be incurred,� the release
stated.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Wouldn�t it be more
appropriate for the Resources Agency to adopt a name that truly reflects its
REAL primary mission? Based on my years covering California fisheries, this
mission appears to be presiding over the collapse of Central Valley salmon
fisheries, engineering the decline of the Delta�s pelagic fish populations,
building a peripheral canal, constructing more dams, slashing funds for salmon
and steelhead restoration, and instituting massive closures of public trust
fisheries throughout the state�s ocean waters.</SPAN></FONT><FONT
class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�If the goal of this
agency is to promote a peripheral canal, the agency should be renamed the
Natural Destruction Agency,� quipped Parrilla.</SPAN></FONT><FONT
class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Other potential
names for the former Resources Agency could be �Bureau of Corporate
Greenwashing,� �Raping of Natural Resources Agency,� �No More Natural Resorurces
Agency,� �The Fish Termination Agency,� or the �Water Exports Agency.� Hey, if
you have any ideas for names for the former Resources Agency befitting its
current �mission,� email me at </SPAN></FONT><A
href="mailto:danielbacher@fishsniffer.com"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Arial size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#0c2e5a>danielbacher [at]
fishsniffer.com</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial
color=#111111 size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial
color=#111111 size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Arial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#111111><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Here�s the link to
the Delta Vision�s final plan: </SPAN></FONT><A
href="http://resources.ca.gov/docs/Delta_Vision_Committee_Implementation_Report.pdf"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span face=Arial size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#0c2e5a>http://resources.ca.gov/docs/Delta_Vision_Committee_Implementation_Report.pdf</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT
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size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Delta Vision
Priorities:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
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size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">The priorities that
form the foundation for a sustainable Delta include the following �fundamental
actions�:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">� A new system of
dual water conveyance through and around the Delta to protect municipal,
agricultural, environmental, and the other beneficial uses of
water;</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">� An investment
commitment and strategy to restore and sustain a vibrant and diverse Delta
ecosystem including the protection and enhancement of agricultural lands that
are compatible with Plan goals;</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Arial color=#111111 size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">� Additional storage
to allow greater system operational flexibility that will benefit water supplies
for both humans and the environment and adapt to a changing
climate;</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">� An investment plan
to protect and enhance unique and important characteristics of the Delta
region.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">� A comprehensive
Delta emergency preparedness strategy and a fully integrated Delta emergency
response plan;</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial
color=#111111 size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">�</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">� A plan to
significantly improve and provide incentives for water conservation � through
both wise use and reuse � in both urban and agricultural sectors throughout the
state;</SPAN></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">� Strong incentives
for local and regional efforts to make better use of new sources of water such
as brackish water cleanup and seawater desalination; and</SPAN></FONT><FONT
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial color=#111111
size=4><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">� An improved
governance system that has reliable funding, clear authority to determine
priorities and strong performance measures to ensure accountability to the new
governing doctrine of the Delta: operation for the coequal goals. Completion of
this fundamental action is absolutely essential to the sustained operation and
maintenance of all of these recommendations.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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