"Delta Groups Rally Against The Panama Canal North
by Dan Bacher, editor of the FishSniffer
July 9, 2009 -- Legislators and hundreds of Delta advocates held a rally at the State Capitol in Sacramento on Tuesday to oppose the peripheral canal, a budget-busting and environmentally destructive project that would approximate the Panama Canal in width and length.
"I'm not going to vote for a plan that builds a Panama Canal down the middle of the 15th Assembly District," exclaimed Assemblymember Joan Buchanan to loud applause from a crowd of recreational anglers, commercial fishermen, Delta farmers, farmworkers, Indian Tribal members, environmentalists and community activists. “I will do all I can to make that the Delta is protected."
As she spoke, family farmers from North Delta CARES and others held up banners proclaiming “The Peripheral Canal=Panama Canal North," along with signs saying, “Fewer Water Exports, Not Fewer Delta Fish" and 'Give the Delta a Voice!'"
read the rest here: http://www.calsport.org/7-9-09a.htm
by Dan Bacher, editor of the FishSniffer
July 9, 2009 -- Legislators and hundreds of Delta advocates held a rally at the State Capitol in Sacramento on Tuesday to oppose the peripheral canal, a budget-busting and environmentally destructive project that would approximate the Panama Canal in width and length.
"I'm not going to vote for a plan that builds a Panama Canal down the middle of the 15th Assembly District," exclaimed Assemblymember Joan Buchanan to loud applause from a crowd of recreational anglers, commercial fishermen, Delta farmers, farmworkers, Indian Tribal members, environmentalists and community activists. “I will do all I can to make that the Delta is protected."
As she spoke, family farmers from North Delta CARES and others held up banners proclaiming “The Peripheral Canal=Panama Canal North," along with signs saying, “Fewer Water Exports, Not Fewer Delta Fish" and 'Give the Delta a Voice!'"
read the rest here: http://www.calsport.org/7-9-09a.htm