<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><head></head><div class="AppleOriginalContents"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:37.8pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><u></u> </span></b></p></div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-right: 37.8pt; text-align: center; "> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">MEDIA
RELEASE</font></u></b></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">“OVER
TROUBLED WATERS” <o:p></o:p></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">DOCUMENTARY
AND SLIDE SHOW ON <o:p></o:p></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
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center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">GOVERNOR
BROWN’S PERIPHERAL TUNNELS PROJECT</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:37.8pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">WHERE: WEAVERVILLE
FIRE HALL, TUESDAY APRIL 2<sup>nd</sup> at 6:30 PM</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:37.8pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">Contacts: Tom
Stokely (530) 926-9727 or 524-0315<o:p></o:p></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:37.8pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Bob Morris (530) 623-5410</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:37.8pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="color: rgb(14, 14, 14); ">Safe Alternatives for our Forest Environment (SAFE, online at <a href="http://www.safealt.org/">http://www.safealt.org/</a>) is sponsoring “Over Troubled Waters”, a
documentary about the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that will premiere at the Weaverville
Fire Hall, 125 Bremer Street on Tuesday April 2 at 6:30 p.m. </span>Admission is free.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Tom Stokely of Mt. Shasta, a former Trinity
County natural resources planner now with the California Water Impact Network
(C-WIN, online at <a href="http://www.c-win.org/">http://www.c-win.org/</a>) will give a slide show with a question and answer period to discuss the
implications of Governor Brown’s “Peripheral Tunnels” project on Trinity County
and all of California. <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:37.8pt;margin-bottom:
22.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="color: rgb(14, 14, 14); ">The documentary, “Over Troubled
Waters”, by Restore the Delta (</span><a href="http://www.restorethedelta.org/">http://www.restorethedelta.org/</a><span style="color: rgb(14, 14, 14); ">) and the C-WIN slideshow are part of a statewide public
education effort to stop the building of Peripheral Tunnels. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Larry Glass, President of Safe Alternatives
for our Forest Environment (S.A.F.E.), emphasizes that Trinity County is a
major and uncompensated source of much of this water and so Trinity should have
significant say about how much water should be taken and and how that water
should be used.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>These considerations must
be important parts of this effort and the overall education of the California
public before decisions are made to borrow billions for questionable projects
such as the Peripheral Tunnels.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:37.8pt;margin-bottom:
22.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">On
July 25, Governor Brown and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a plan to
drill two 30’-40’ diameter tunnels 150 feet for 35 miles under California’s
Delta to siphon northern California water to thirsty San Joaquin Valley
agribusiness and Southern California cities, according to Stokely.
Previous plans to build a “Peripheral Canal” were defeated by two thirds of California
voters in 1982 during Brown’s first tenure as governor of California.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:37.8pt;margin-bottom:
22.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(14, 14, 14); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">In this visually rich
documentary, Ed Begley Jr. narrates the story of how the people of the Delta
are fighting to protect the region they love and to encourage saner, sustainable
water policies for all the people of California.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:37.8pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">Tom
Stokely of C-WIN said, “The project will harm Trinity County and Trinity River
interests by drawing down Trinity Lake even more. There is absolutely no
protection for Trinity River interests from this project.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Water export amounts and fishery protection
flows are being put off until after the project is constructed, a ‘plumbing
before policy’ decision to misinform the public about the true costs and
benefits. Cost estimates are significantly underestimated. While
Peripheral Tunnel proponents claim that the beneficiaries of the project will
pay for it, they are planning on substantial subsidies from state and federal
taxpayers amounting to billions more borrowed dollars. There are much more cost
effective, job-producing and locally-based ways of providing water supply
reliability including recycling, conservation, stormwater capture and groundwater
desalination.”<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:37.8pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; ">Safe Alternatives for our Forest Environment (SAFE)
is dedicated to promoting healthy ecosystems through
education, community involvement, organizing, demonstrations, activism and
legal remedies.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; "><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; "><a href="http://www.safealt.org/">http://www.safealt.org/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:37.8pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">The California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) promotes
the equitable and environmental use of California's water, including instream
uses, through research, planning, public education, and litigation. <span style="mso-field-code:
" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.c-win\.org\0022 \\o \0022http\:\/\/www\.c-win\.org\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ""><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.c-win.org/">www.c-win.org</a></span></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:37.8pt;text-align:center"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">#<o:p></o:p></font></p>
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