
<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Good Morning</div><div><br></div><div>In case you've missed it, here's Dan Morain's editorial on the twin tunnels. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dan-morain/article20605575.html">http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dan-morain/article20605575.html</a> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><div id="story-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; "><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 50px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 40px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; color: inherit; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Prepare for a deluge as Delta begins boiling over</h1></div><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: -20px; "><div class="wide-rail" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; position: relative; width: 620px; "><div class="dan_morain

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ata-src="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dan-morain/o8n57q/picture20605572/ALTERNATES/FREE_320/California%20Drought%20(3)" data-media="(max-width: 320px)" style="box-sizing: border-box; "></span><span data-src="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dan-morain/o8n57q/picture20605572/ALTERNATES/FREE_640/California%20Drought%20(3)" data-media="(max-width: 640px)" style="box-sizing: border-box; "></span><span data-src="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dan-morain/o8n57q/picture20605572/ALTERNATES/FREE_768/California%20Drought%20(3)" data-media="(max-width: 767px)" style="box-sizing: border-box; "></span><span data-src="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dan-morain/o8n57q/picture20605572/ALTERNATES/FREE_480/California%20Drought%20(3)" data-media="(max-width: 480px)" style="box-sizing: border-box; "></span></span><div class="gallery-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; bottom: 5px; left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 15px; width: 580px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; font-size: 14px; opacity: 1; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><p class="gallery-caption-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Gov. Jerry Brown, speaking at the Association of California Water Agencies conference last week, made clear that in his fourth and final term, he intends to build twin tunnels through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. <span class="gallery-caption-attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">| <span class="photographer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; ">Rich Pedroncelli</span> <span class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The Associated Press</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></nowrap></div><div id="story-body-items" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 80px; "><div class="byline element-spacing-small" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; "><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; display: inline-block; "><span class="ng_byline_name" style="box-sizing: border-box; ">By Dan Morain</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; display: inline-block; "><span class="ng_byline_email" style="box-sizing: border-box; "><a href="mailto:dmorain@sacbee.com">dmorain@sacbee.com</a></span></div></div><div class="share-tools-wrapper" id="sharebar-story-top_gig_containerParent" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 33px; float: left; top: 50px; z-index: 1; margin-left: -80px; margin-top: -30px; "><div id="sharebar-story-top" class="sb-ui-sharebar" gigid="showShareBarUI" style="box-sizing: border-box; visibility: visible; "><div class="gig-bar-container gig-share-bar-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; "><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-bottom gig-button-container-twitter gig-button-container-twitter-count-bottom gig-share-button-container gig-button-container-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-bottom" id="sharebar-story-top-reaction0" title="Twitter" alt="Twitter" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; paddi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 the audience, though his critics used the opportunity to issue huffy statements expressing their dismay.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">Coming in a week when his appointees on the State Water Resources Control Board ordered deep cuts in residential water usage, Brown made clear that in his fourth and final term, he intends to get stuff done, specifically, the tunnel project. He believes it�s the only reliable way of moving water around the Delta to the farms and cities to the south.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">�You have to build some things. We have got to get water to people,� Brown said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">It was no coincidence that a well-financed political group called<a href="http://watersecurityca.com/our-coalition/" target="_blank" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(13, 118, 186); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Californians for Water Security</a> unveiled a slick ad and lobbying campaign last week. Californians for Water Security includes organized labor, the building trades, business groups including the California Chamber of Commerce, and the state�s largest farming interests.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">�We must act urgently to protect the water supply for California�s homes, farms and businesses, while restoring the environment of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta,� the group said <a href="http://watersecurityca.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/May-Coalition-Letter-Support-CA-Water-Fix.pdf" target="_blank" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(13, 118, 186); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">in a letter signed by representatives</a> of nearly 50 unions, business groups and water agencies.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">Its spokespeople won�t say how much is being spent in the first ad buy. �We�re certainly not done yet,� Democratic consultant Robin Swanson said. Assume the well is deep. They�ll need it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">Wealthy Stockton-area farmer Dean Cortopassi, who like Brown is a septuagenarian, and his wife, Joan, have spent $2 million to <a href="http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0003%20%28Bond-funded%20Projects%20V2%29.pdf?" target="_blank" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(13, 118, 186); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">qualify an initiative for the 2016 ballot</a> that would require a statewide vote on any state projects costing $2 billion or more that rely on revenue bonds. Read: Delta tunnels and high-speed rail.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">�This measure puts the brakes on our state�s public debt crisis by giving the voters a say in all major state bond debt proposals that must be repaid through specific revenue streams or charges imposed directly on Californians like taxes, fees, rates, tolls or rents,� says the initiative, which was written by attorneys at the political law firm Nielsen Merksamer.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">To run the campaign, Cortopassi has retained Democratic consultant Andrew Acosta and Meridian Pacific, a Republican consulting firm whose founder, Matt Rexroad, is a Yolo County supervisor.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">�It doesn�t stop the tunnels,� said Meridian Pacific partner Tom Ross. �It would require a vote on projects of $2 billion or more. It requires a public discussion on the tunnels. We would have a discussion on high-speed rail.�</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">Although Cortopassi will have allies, the vast majority of the power and money will be on the other side. The anti-tunnel group, Restore the Delta, released emails showing that Paramount Farms, one of the largest land holders and growers in the state, is a driving force behind Californians for Water Security.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">As he often does, Brown in his speech to the water association looked to history. Gov. Goodwin Knight was working on a trans-Delta conveyance back in the 1950s. Brown�s father did the same in 1960s. Brown tried too when he was governor 40 years ago.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">�If these problems aren�t handled, they get worse and don�t go away,� Brown said last week.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">Brown has surrounded himself with lifelong environmentalists. Like Brown, the governor�s aides would never think to drive the Delta to ruin or cause the extinction of species so cattle ranchers, almond growers and land speculators could make more money.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">But there�s also an incongruity between Brown�s advocacy of the tunnels and his governing philosophy. He talks about subsidiarity, the notion that issues and problems ought to be handled locally if at all possible. If he were to apply that to water, local water districts would focus more on recycling, conservation and underground storage.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">He advocates alternatives to a centralized system of energy delivery and wants to wean commuters off gasoline-powered cars. The state uses huge amounts of energy to move water over the Tehachapi Mountains.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">He�s certain that climate change is disrupting weather patterns. Why, then, depend on massive new tunnels to move what could be an uncertain supply of water?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">He talks about frugality and the need to pay off California�s accumulated debt, but remains intent on building the $17 billion tunnels to move water around the Delta.</p></div></div></div></div></div></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"> <br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: -20px; "><div class="wide-rail" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; position: relative; width: 620px; "><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 80px; "><div style="box-sizing: border-box; "><div style="box-sizing: border-box; "><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px; ">Perhaps the tunnels are the best solution for the Delta and California�s 39 million residents. I haven�t spent a million hours studying the situation. But in the coming months, as our lawns turn brown, our showers get shorter and our water bills rise, we all will become steeped in the Delta, and likely be called upon to vote on its future.</p></div></div></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: -20px; "><div class="wide-rail" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; position: relative; width: 620px; "><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 80px; "><div style="box-sizing: border-box; "><div style="box-sizing: border-box; "><div class="ng_endnote_contact" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><p style="font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; box-sizing: b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ir acreage in the driest areas of California,� said Chichizola, "and they are planning to destroy Northern California�s rivers and flood sacred sites to keep up their unsustainable water.� </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">Chichizola noted that almond acreage alone has gone up over 150,000 acres since the drought began, yet Governor Jerry Brown on May 6 told environmentalists to "Shut Up" in response to criticism over his twin tunnel plans. (</font><a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/05/06/18771989.php" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(22, 52, 92); ">http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/05/06/18771989.php</a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">) </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">The film night focused on impacts to Northern California�s rivers from water diversions and how politicians and corporate agribusiness interests are using the drought to push through new harmful water policy and projects, such as the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), the Shasta dam raise, and drought legislation, while allowing the state�s aquifers to be drained. </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">Native American speakers highlighted how the proposed Shasta dam raise, which threatens over 40 actively used sacred sites of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, and how the continued water exports to the Central Valley threaten the Trinity and Klamath River salmon and Tribes. They also shared efforts by Tribal activists and other river and salmon activists to stop what they called the "biggest planned water heist in decades." </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">The speakers included Caleen Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe; Jene McCovey, Yurok Tribe Member; Allie Hostler, Hoopa Valley Tribe Member; Dania Rose Colegrove, Hoopa Valley Tribe Member; and Will Doolittle, Filmmaker. </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">Chief Caleen Sisk said the water bond, peripheral tunnels, Shasta Dam raise and other water projects now being planned by the state and federal governments are in in reality "one Big Project" that will destroy salmon, rivers and groundwater supplies. </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">�It does not make sense that people are separating the water puzzle into individual pieces, such as: the raising of Shasta Dam, Proposition 1, the Delta tunnels, BDCP, Sites Reservoir, Temperance Flat, CALFED, Delta Vision, BDCP, OCAP, the Bay Delta, Trinity/Klamath Rivers, the Sacramento River, the San Joaquin River, and water rights," said Chief Sisk. "It is all one BIG Project." </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">She emphasized, "These are not separate projects; they are all the same thing that the State is asking us to fund - California water being manipulated for the enrichment of some and the devastation of cultures, environments, and species all in the name of higher profits.� </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">On May 6, Governor Brown told the crowd at the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) Conference, �I asked my water man sitting over there how many man and woman hours have gone into the Delta Project? Would you tell them? One million!" </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">"Until you've put a million hours into it, Shut Up!" said Brown, referring to critics of his tunnels and Delta policies. </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">In response, Chief Sisk said, "A million hours is not enough obviously to know what's good for the Delta because those million hours must not have included the path to extinction of the Delta smelt and salmon. These fish are so necesssary to the Delta - there won't be a Delta without the smelt and salmon. The smelt and salmon have been here for over six thousand years. </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">"If people want to survive, they can't trust the Governor and staff, who have only spent a million hours on this project," Chief Sisk said. "The Delta has been dying since they've been doing what they've been doing - and they don't even know that it's dying." </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif">For more information about this and future events, call Regina Chichizola: (541) 951-0126 </font></div><div class="article" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 16px; margin-top: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, aria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