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(*note: April Fools – by Dan Bacher) Department of Fish and Wildlife News Advisory: For Immediate Release Media Contact: Joe Destructo, CDFW Communications, 916-NOT-THER Blackwater to enforce California’s marine protected areas California Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Chuck Bonham … Continue reading →

“Each individual drilling of a well can use 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 gallons of water,” she said. “Each platform can have multiple drilled ‘wells’ in a 4 mile diameter, a 2 mile radius from the well platform. Each well can be … Continue reading →

Australia, with the world’s largest network of Marine Protected Areas plans to be the world’s largest exporter of LNG, and ocean fracked natural gas. Every Australian MPA shown, is also mapped by basin for drilling and corresponding development (FLNG) or … Continue reading →

Between 2000 and 2011, more than 130,000,000 fish were “salvaged” in the massive state and federal pumps diverting water to corporate agribusiness and southern California, according to a white paper written by Bill Jennings, Executive Director of the California Sportfishing … Continue reading →

by Dan Bacher Missed in the mainstream media coverage of the release of the revised Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) documents on March 14 was the alarming role the peripheral tunnels could play in increased fracking in California The oil … Continue reading →

Gray Whale and Sea Lions by Richard Ellis  By Julie Watson SAN DIEGO (AP) — The California Coastal Commission on Friday rejected a Navy explosives and sonar training program off the Southern California coast that critics said could harm endangered … Continue reading →

“There is absolutely no protection for Trinity River interests from this project,”  said Tom Stokely of the California Water Impact Network.  The Trinity River by Dan Bacher The Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels not only … Continue reading →

The OPC submitted the following letter in support of National Marine Sanctuary expansion. There is still time to submit your own comments (today, March 1st, until 11:59 P.M. E.S.T.). For details, go to: http://cordellbank.noaa.gov/news/expansion.html <————> The Ocean Protection Coalition (OPC) is … Continue reading →

As some speculated all along, it seems the closing of the North Coast ocean in so-called “Marine Protected Areas” – that purposely do not protect from oil exploration/drilling – may have involved back-room deals that also gave southern California the … Continue reading →