GOP seeks to ban lawsuits on delta twin tunnels

[WB Staff]

A new threat to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the San Francisco Bay is coming not from the governor’s mansion but from the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Corona (Riverside County), inserted language into the Interior and Environment Appropriations bill that would prohibit legal challenges to anything related to California WaterFix — the governor’s name for the twin tunnels project to move water from the delta to Southern California — not just retroactively but in perpetuity.

If this language becomes law, the dozens of existing lawsuits against the project would be summarily dismissed, allowing the twin tunnels to be built without resolution of legal challenges by local governments, water districts, recreational groups and conservation groups.

But the problems don’t stop there. If enacted into law, this language would allow the California Department of Water Resources to send as much water to Southern California as the department wants, and there would be no opportunity to go to court to stop them.

It would prohibit any lawsuit to protect imperiled fish species under either the California Endangered Species Act and the federal Endangered Species Act. It would prohibit legal challenges based on state and federal water quality protections within the delta and San Francisco Bay.

[hydro]

Well there you have it Democrats and Republicans can finally agree on something . Destroying the Cal Delta eco-system in favor of money from the powerful water robber barons from the central valley and southern California .

[MichaelB]

Republicans, Democrats, Utilities, Big Money Agriculture Interests ...... money knows no boundaries.
If this rider makes it out of committee and into law the fight to stop the Tunnels is over.
Enjoy the Delta while you can .....

You can not contact Congressman Calvert by email unless you live in his SoCal District. There is a phone number at following link to call his office. You can contact your own Congressman.

https://mailchi.mp/restorethedelta/acti ... 941322a69d

[monte300]

Republicans, Democrats, Utilities, Big Money Agriculture Interests ...... money knows no boundaries.
If this rider makes it out of committee and into law the fight to stop the Tunnels is over.
Enjoy the Delta while you can .....

You can not contact Congressman Calvert by email unless you live in his SoCal District. There is a phone number at following link to call his office. You can contact your own Congressman.

https://mailchi.mp/restorethedelta/acti ... 941322a69d

For lack of better term Calvert And his cronies are douches