![]() We have repeatedly given him the benefit of the doubt. “We have never been more disappointed in a California Governor than we are with Governor Newsom. “Now he wants to do away with standard environmental protections to build the Delta tunnel,” Barrigan-Parrilla continued. He has pitted powerful special interest senior water rights holders against the needs of millions of Californians with the voluntary agreement process,” she observed. “He raided funding from the San Joaquin Valley drinking water program budget to pay for needed flood protections, pitting region against region, disadvantaged community against disadvantaged community, as he did during the drought, pitting drinking water solutions against tribal and Delta environmental justice community needs for freshwater flows. He has now proposed in the May revised budget to subvert rules during flood further weakening water quality protections.” “Governor Newsom does not respect the people in communities that need environmental protection,” said Restore the Delta’s Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla. “During the drought he used emergency rules to destroy Delta water quality and fisheries for tribes and fishing communities. (E) Canal or other conveyance maintenance and repair.Īdvocates for fish, water and the environment responded with outrage over Newsom’s infrastructure plan. ![]() Groundwater and seawater desalination and associated treatment, storage, conveyance, and distribution facilities. (D) Contaminant and salt removal projects, including, but not limited to, (C) Projects for the production, distribution, or use of recycled water, as defined in Section 13050 of the Water Code. (B) Water storage projects funded by the California Water Commission pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 79750) of Division 26.7 of the Water Code. The “water-related projects” that would be subject to the new “streamlined process” include the: Together, these proposals could: “cut project timelines by more than three years, save businesses and state and local governments hundreds of millions of dollars, an reduce paperwork by hundreds of thousands of pages,” according to the Governor.Īlso today, Governor Newsom signed an executive order to stand up a “strike team “to accelerate clean infrastructure projects across the state by implementing an all-of-government strategy for planning and development. The widely-criticized announcement by the Governor followed Thursday’s report urging “permitting reform” from Infrastructure Advisor to California, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and California Forward. ![]() The Governor claimed the measures will “facilitate and streamline project approval” and completion to maximize California’s share of federal infrastructure dollars and expedite the implementation of projects that meet the state’s ambitious economic, climate, and social goals.” Not since the Pat Brown era have we had the opportunity to invest in and rebuild this state to create the clean future Californians deserve.” It’s time to make the most out of taxpayer dollars and deliver results while creating hundreds of thousands of good jobs. “This proposal is the most ambitious effort to cut red tape and streamline regulations in half a century. “The only way to achieve California’s world-leading climate goals is to build, build, build – faster,” claimed Newsom, with no sense of irony, on Endangered Species Day. At the site of a future solar farm in the San Joaquin Valley in Stanislaus County on May 19, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a legislative package and signed an executive order that would gut the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to expedite the construction of the salmon-killing Delta Tunnel, Sites Reservoir and other controversial infrastructure projects, drawing condemnation from environmental groups.ĬEQA is a landmark environmental law that the construction industry, Big Ag, Big Oil and other Big Money interests have been trying to eviscerate for years in order to shorten the contracting process for bridge and water projects, limit timelines for environmental litigation and simplify permitting for complicated developments in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and elsewhere throughout California. ![]()
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