Greenwashing the Delta
It's been four years now since the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) published "Envisioning Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta." Right from the start, S. D. Bechtel and the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, a money laundering operation for corporations according to North Coast environmental leader John Lewallen, have been pushing this ongoing initiative to frame California's discussion of the Delta as "doomed."
"The original document explored nine alternative 'futures,' each conceptual, each an exaggeration stripped of practicality or opportunities for compromise," said Jane Wagner-Tyack of Restore the Delta. "In that document, the authors wrote the score for the song sheet they have been singing from so successfully ever since: the fragile, unsustainable Delta; seismic threat; catastrophic levee failure; inevitable loss of species; failing governance; crisis, crisis, crisis; conflict, conflict, conflict." Read more..
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http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/03/18673760.phpThe PPIC book is funded by some of the worst corporate greenwashers on the planet, including the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Pisces Foundation, the Resources Legacy Fund, and the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority.
Bechtel and Packard funded report greenwashes the peripheral canal
by Dan Bacher
by Dan Bacher
It's been four years now since the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) published "Envisioning Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta." Right from the start, S. D. Bechtel and the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, a money laundering operation for corporations according to North Coast environmental leader John Lewallen, have been pushing this ongoing initiative to frame California's discussion of the Delta as "doomed."
"The original document explored nine alternative 'futures,' each conceptual, each an exaggeration stripped of practicality or opportunities for compromise," said Jane Wagner-Tyack of Restore the Delta. "In that document, the authors wrote the score for the song sheet they have been singing from so successfully ever since: the fragile, unsustainable Delta; seismic threat; catastrophic levee failure; inevitable loss of species; failing governance; crisis, crisis, crisis; conflict, conflict, conflict." Read more..
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