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Congressman Floats $33B Plan To Demolish Four Dams
A concept floated by Republican Mike Simpson, a U.S. congressman from Idaho, holds the potential to loosen the intractable logjam that has persisted for years among lawmakers. Read the full article: Congressman Floats $33B Plan To Demolish Four Dams
Dam Power: Snake River Dams Are Not Big Power Producers, but Play an Important Regional Role
After nearly 2 decades of politicking, controversy, and dispute, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the Cascade Locks on the Columbia River, near The Dalles, Oregon, allowing boats laden with goods to pass by once unnavigable rapids. Read the…
State of Oregon’s Decision To Litigate Undermines Hopes for Regional Collaboration on Salmon
Earlier today, the State of Oregon filed a lawsuit in district court over the federal government’s latest hydropower operations plan for the Columbia River Basin and the Biological Opinion in support of the plan under the Endangered Species Act. Ironically,…
New Website Imagines the Snake River Without Dams
An advocacy group angling for a free-flowing Snake River has released a detailed multimedia website envisioning what the removal of four dams could mean for the region. BPA Snake Dams Fact Sheet 2016 (PDF) Read the full article: New Website…
Are Rolling Blackouts Becoming the New Normal?
The hundreds of thousands of Oregonians who spent days without electricity, due to the recent ice storm, learned firsthand that power outages represent something more than an inconvenience. If you lose power during a period of extreme cold or heat,…
Despite Unknowns, Dam-Breaching Proposal Is Opening Honest Conversations
Miller is the executive director of Northwest RiverPartners, a Vancouver-based nonprofit organization that advocates for hydropower… Read the full article: Despite Unknowns, Dam-Breaching Proposal Is Opening Honest Conversations
Idaho Republican Offers $33.5B Plan To Breach Lower Snake River Dams, Replace Their Benefits
Rep. Mike Simpson, an Idaho Republican, has outlined a plan to spend $33.5 billion to breach 4 lower Snake River dams and replace their benefits through a wide range of investments. Read the full article: Idaho Republican Offers $33.5B Plan…
Idaho Congressman Breathes New Life Into Dam Breaching Debate
Dam breaching is back on the negotiating table in the Northwest and the latest person to propose it might be considered an unlikely source. He’s using a potential clean energy stimulus package as a way to reopen a sometimes intractable…
Proposal To Breach Snake River Dams Prompts Praise, Concern
A new proposal to tear down the four Lower Snake River dams has people agreeing on one thing — the dams’ value to the Northwest region. But many of those who rely on the dams now — to produce low-cost…
Reactions to Simpson’s Proposal To Breach Four Snake River Dams
Shannon Wheeler, chairman of the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee Salmon, steelhead, and lamprey are sacred to the Nez Perce people, and the right to fish for them is reserved in the tribe’s 1855 Treaty with the U.S. government. The…