It’s sad that Brown has been reduced from the “People’s Governor” to agribusiness shill in the twilight of his career. But it’s sadder still that Californians may have to suffer the crushing debt and environmental degradation that could result from his megalomania. We expected – and deserved –better from him Glen Martin Huffington PostPosted: 08/17/2012 [...]

No blueprints.  No operating plan.  Just putting LA ratepayer on the line to pay for this boondoggle. http://www.laobserved.com/writers/stevegreenberg.php

  Brown plans to pursue a massive project to move water from the Sacramento area into the Central Valley and Southland and help restore the ravaged delta habitat.   More than 100 people demonstrated at the California Capitol against Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to build giant tunnels to move water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River [...]

California Water Tunnel Project Revealed: Jerry Brown Unveils Controversial Plan AP Sacramento. — California and federal officials have announced plans for a massive twin tunnel system to carry water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to farmland and cities. Gov. Jerry Brown and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar unveiled the proposal at a Sacramento press conference [...]

Southern California consumer and environmental advocates challenged the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) to support an independent cost-benefit analysis of the proposed multibillion peripheral canal or tunnel during a press conference today in Los Angeles. “Who would get the water and who would pay the bill, which is now estimated to be $20 billion to upwards [...]

Los Angeles Times April 30, 2012 | George Skelton | Capitol Journal The ballot measure, written in 2009, has some good ingredients but also some pork. It’s not right for these times. SACRAMENTO — Might as well scratch one measure from the likely crowded November ballot: a pork-filled $11.1-billion water bond that is dying of [...]