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Marine protected areas
will protect oceans
California’s oceans are extraordinarily vital to the folks of California on each an environmental and cultural foundation.
Our oceans nonetheless account for a majority of the oxygen that we breathe, our literal supply of life. Our oceans additionally function a significant meals supply for many individuals. They've sustained human life alongside its coasts for hundreds of years, and whereas the state’s unique inhabitants have been restricted of their capability to proceed their conventional methods of life, many indigenous communities proceed to depend on the oceans for sustenance.
The oil and fishing industries’ harmful practices are inflicting nice hurt to our oceans. Thankfully, an answer lies forward in marine protected areas, which offer marine life with areas the place they'll reside undisturbed by people. In the event you assist defending our oceans, take motion now and inform Gov. Newsom to triple marine protected areas in our state.
Derick Lietzow
Berkeley
EBMUD ought to think about
quarry web site alternate options
EBMUD’s plans for the quarry web site on Lake Chabot Street would run 60-80 dump vans per weekday via San Leandro for 40-80 years to retailer trench soils from pipeline substitute. Neither the roads nor the location can face up to the burden or vibration, to not point out the noise, air pollution or visitors.
The mission is presently on maintain, spurred by the Save Lake Chabot Street Coalition, with 1,600 signatures and counting, plus a unanimous decision by the San Leandro Metropolis Council.
Viable alternate options embody trenchless applied sciences that scale back the amount of soils on the supply, and reaching out to different native governments and land brokers.
Please encourage EBMUD to pursue these alternate options. Let’s assist ratepayers, scale back public spending and protect union jobs.
Tim Ballas
San Leandro
Make the ban of merciless
rodeo occasion everlasting
The Livermore Rodeo’s Board of Administrators lately confirmed that the nonsanctioned, brutal and blatantly sexist “wild cow milking contest” has been faraway from the June 10-11 rodeo program. Hallelujah. Make it everlasting coverage.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors banned this cruelty in 2022 in unincorporated areas of the county, efforts led by late Supervisors Wilma Chan and Richard Valle. Different jurisdictions ought to comply with go well with.
Once more, these are beef cattle, not dairy, and unused to being dealt with in any respect, a lot much less this roughly. The cows are additional careworn by being separated from their still-nursing infants. One among these frantic cows jumped the fence on the 2014 Rowell Ranch Rodeo, suffered a damaged neck and prolapsed eyeball, requiring euthanasia and leaving an orphaned calf. One other suffered a damaged leg on the 2004 Livermore Rodeo, with related outcomes.
State laws is so as.
Eric Mills
Oakland
Agriculture provides $1B
to county financial system
This week’s Nationwide Ag Day supplied motive to notice that the cattle trade is the second largest agricultural commodity in Alameda County, primarily based on the county Crop Report. Ranching is agriculture, and ranching is the most important land use. There are almost 250,000 acres of rangeland within the county, per Bay Space Inexperienced Print.
UC Berkeley’s current peer-reviewed examine for California Rangeland Belief quantified the ecosystem companies or nature’s advantages supplied by rangelands conserved with conservation easements by CRT and managed by ranching. Some 306,781 acres present $1.44 billion in ecosystem companies yearly.
Alameda County rangelands, due to this fact, present almost $1 billion in advantages to our area — yearly. You’re welcome.
Karen Candy
Rancher
Livermore
SVB collapse one other
motive to keep away from Trump
The collapse of Silicon Valley Financial institution has precipitated vital turmoil throughout international monetary markets. Why and the way did this occur?
A glance again to pre-pandemic 2018 will present the reply. At the moment, Donald Trump occupied the White Home in what's going to absolutely be famous as considered one of America’s best electoral failures. He and his greed-driven minions diminished regulatory oversight for banks with holdings of lower than $250 billion. Deregulation allowed for avarice and monetary manipulation to run roughshod over the rules designed to alert and defend towards such blatant dishonesty.
Please keep in mind that Trump and his credulous lemmings have however one purpose: unmitigated authoritarian energy. They're a lawless, contemptible lot who mustn't ever once more preside over the American socio-political panorama.
Jon James
Pleasanton