We could absolve higher-ups in Team Obama of the original push by U.S. Fish & Wildlife to remove grizzlies in Greater Yellowstone from Endangered Species Act preservation.
But, after USFW lost that case, to bring it up on appeal, when the griz are listed as threatened again, and nothing else has changed in the plan? Where's Kenny Boy Salazar?
That's even as Obama and Washington state's Democratic Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell are ready to keep playing politics with salmon.
Showing posts with label salmon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salmon. Show all posts
March 09, 2011
February 15, 2009
Pacific NW dams don’t just kill salmon
They cause salmon brain damage to those that manage to make it past dams.
It’s no laughing matter.
These brain-damaged salmon may count in government ledgers as having cleared dams, and therefore making the dams look not quite so bad. But, if the brain damage keeps them from making it all the way to spawning sites, they ARE that bad.
It’s no laughing matter.
These brain-damaged salmon may count in government ledgers as having cleared dams, and therefore making the dams look not quite so bad. But, if the brain damage keeps them from making it all the way to spawning sites, they ARE that bad.
November 17, 2008
End of the line for Klamath dams?
Pacific salmon, Indian tribes, fishermen and environmentalists can only hope that a new working framework for removal spells the end of the line for four Klamath River dams.
The Bush Administration, the states of California and Oregon, and PacifiCorp, which runs four aging hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, which rises in southwest Oregon and goes through northwest California to the Pacific, have agreed to a non-binding framework for eventually removing the dams. Here’s the details:
Even though the agreement is non-binding, it’s hard for PacifiCorp to walk away. It’s being adequately compensated, yet while not being able to fleece customers for stranded costs, and it’s able to let go of liability.
Update, Nov. 18: I may have had too much initial praise for this.
Among other contraindications to the deal:
1. Not all the affected Indian tribes are jumping with joy;
2. Many people are wondering why the wait is until 2020 to potentially take action;
3. Irrigators would get a first-in-line legislative degree for water rights in dry years;
4. A required cost-benefit analysis could allow PacifiCorp (held by Warren Buffett) to permanently avoid an actual tear-down;
5. Schwarzenegger may have some dam California reasons for pushing this.
Read High Country News' full story
The Bush Administration, the states of California and Oregon, and PacifiCorp, which runs four aging hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, which rises in southwest Oregon and goes through northwest California to the Pacific, have agreed to a non-binding framework for eventually removing the dams. Here’s the details:
The new agreement, which is expected to be final by June 2009, provides specifics on financing the dam removal. PacifiCorp, which is a subsidiary of the MidAmerican Energy Holding Company and operates as Pacific Power on the West Coast — would add a 2 percent annual surcharge, amounting to about $15 on average, for its 550,000 customers in Oregon and 45,000 in California.
In addition to the $200 million generated in part by these surcharges, $250 million would be raised by a bond issued by California. The dams would also be transferred to a new federal agency set up for the purpose, relieving PacifiCorp of liability during the actual removal.
Even though the agreement is non-binding, it’s hard for PacifiCorp to walk away. It’s being adequately compensated, yet while not being able to fleece customers for stranded costs, and it’s able to let go of liability.
Update, Nov. 18: I may have had too much initial praise for this.
Among other contraindications to the deal:
1. Not all the affected Indian tribes are jumping with joy;
2. Many people are wondering why the wait is until 2020 to potentially take action;
3. Irrigators would get a first-in-line legislative degree for water rights in dry years;
4. A required cost-benefit analysis could allow PacifiCorp (held by Warren Buffett) to permanently avoid an actual tear-down;
5. Schwarzenegger may have some dam California reasons for pushing this.
Read High Country News' full story
November 04, 2008
Farm salmon killing orcas
That’s the claim of Alexandra Hubbard. Now, many researchers have been developing more and more evidence that large salmon farms pass sea lice on to wild salmon, but Hubbard is taking the idea a step further. A whale researcher in British Columbia, she claims salmon farms are doing the same to her killer whale research subjects.
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