Klamath River Salmon restoration???

Mojo · 02-26-2004, 05:36 AM

Please read the article. What do you think the chances are FERC will allow the re-licensing without a Salmon Plan. Seems pretty myopic in this day and age, to leave out fish...

Dam Re-Licensing

02-26-2004, 05:43 AM

About 75 years too late

Mojo · 02-26-2004, 06:16 AM

PacificCorp probably should have addressed the issue, and the costs involved, as well as any other positive and negative impacts, in their application for re-licensing. Because they didn't it opens the door for a) the denial of re-licensing, and b) big lawsuits. You would think these large corporations would have someone working risk mitigation issues...

Straydog · 02-26-2004, 07:11 AM

If it like most relicensing of these dams, they will offer to do some marginal mitigation work someplace and get thier license renewed and it will be business as usual with little or no fanfare....... :depressed:

Siwash · 02-26-2004, 10:11 AM

I realize i'm opening up a huge can of worms by injecting politics into this but I feel compelled to point out that the FERC is an appointed body, and our current leaders at the federal level who do the appointing have not demonstrated to me that they give a rat's behind about fish. Bush may be your guy on a number of other issues, and that is certainly anyone's perogative, but his appointments to bodies such as FERC are stacked with representatives of energy-producing industries, without any "greenies" to advocate balancing the needs of fish. Remember the stink a couple summers ago during Cali's power crisis, when the FERC chairman (a close Bush ally) repeatedly refused to intervene on the state's behalf in dealing with power companies like Enron. Well, now we can see how reputable Enron turned out to be. That may seem a bit off the subject, but these are the very same folks who are in charge of dam relicensing, so I consider it plenty informative. I hope to be pleasantly surprised, if significantly greater fish passage/habitat improvements are made a top priority in the relicensing process.

Flame away...

02-26-2004, 10:28 AM

No flame necessary. Nothing you posted was BS. It will take MASSIVE political pressure to get a fish pass at Iron Gate Dam.

Mojo · 02-26-2004, 04:32 PM

I didn't post this to start a flame fest. I agree with Keta, politics and money carry a ton of weight on this issue. Us little sporties don't.

BrianMaguire · 02-26-2004, 04:57 PM

There is some good news, "PacifiCorp has announced in a 2.24.04 press release (below) it intends �to decommission the East Side and West Side powerhouses� that have been killing fish at the south end of Upper Klamath lake, despite BOR�s screening the A-Canal that was finally completed last year."

02-26-2004, 04:58 PM

Fish=Suckers and tui chubs

Mojo · 02-26-2004, 08:37 PM

Keta,
You know a bunch about these dams. Is it feasable to put ladders around them? I know Hells Canyon Dam is too high, and in too skinny of a canyon to feasibly build a ladder (or so they say). You have to wonder what the cost break-off is. I mean spending 1.6 Billion dollars on a ladder is rediculous. 1.5 million is a no brainer.