Supervisors hotly debated their differing perspectives on the value of appointing individuals with the right kind of “constitutional ideology", despite a lack of relevant credentials.
The Board of the Anderson Cottonwood Irrigation District voted unanimously to adopt an agreement that reduces water restrictions during critically dry years. Some constituents oppose it, in part because they believe engaging in further deals with the federal government is a losing proposition.
Have an opinion on Fountain Wind? Want to learn what's happening with a possible state approval? State representatives will be in Anderson today.
The state is deciding whether to approve a PG&E proposal to sell most of its hydroelectric dams, including McCloud and other non-nuclear energy facilities, to a smaller subsidiary company it controls. Environmental groups argue the transaction may slow already long-delayed repairs, increasing current flood risks.
Shasta County's Acting County Counsel says the state agency does not have jurisdiction to consider approving the Fountain Wind Project after it was already denied twice at the local level. We share more.
In 2021, Shasta County officials definitively rejected the Fountain Wind mega-energy project, twice. But now a new California law may allow Texas-based ConnectGen to build the mammoth wind turbine project anyway, despite local decisions based on years of complex environmental studies, hours of testimonies, and in-depth Tribal consultations. Fountain Wind is poised to become a first test of how much the state is willing to bypass local and Tribal governments to meet its clean energy goals.
More than three-hundred acres of family farmland along the Fall River in Northeastern Shasta County will now be permanently protected. The property was conserved by the Shasta Land Trust in collaboration with the California Department of Conservation. It will continue to be used as working farmland while providing essential habitat for migratory birds.
After months of debilitating drought caused by federal water cuts and local water sales, the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District may be receiving up to $3.6 million in federal drought relief funds.
Court documents and interviews with government officials indicate that the federal water cuts that have caused devastation within the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District (A.C.I.D.) weren’t a breach of the water district’s senior water rights contract. Instead, A.C.I.D. and other water contractors negotiated and agreed to the reduction in water allocations as part of an interagency effort to protect endangered salmon during California’s historic drought.
After its driest three-year stretch on record, California braces for another year with below-average snow and rain. Conditions are shaping up to be a “recipe for drought.”
