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Posted on 10/12/2006 9:18:57 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Kulongoski? what is that, Klingon/Polish?
Victory for Klamath River salmon
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/9976/1/343/
“The judge affirmed what we have been saying for years — the river is in a lot of pain caused by PacifiCorp’s dams,” said Steve Rothert of American Rivers.
PacifiCorp, recently acquired by billionaire Warren Buffett, had challenged the prescriptions of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife and National Marine Fisheries Service.
“PacifiCorp’s Klamath Dams have been a disaster,” noted Glen Spain, Northwest region director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations. “These aging dams produce less than 2 percent of PacifiCorp’s energy, but have nearly destroyed a river that was once the third most productive salmon producing system in America. If there are any dams that should come down, these are the ones.”
It is astonishing to me that in a basin so full of "endangered" suckers that they are in every stock pond and exceed the carrying capacity of Upper Klamath Lake, and the "endangered" salmon are on sale for $4.99/lb. ("wild coho"), these fantastic lies have such traction. What a colossal failure of leadership in the Klamath Basin.
No one mentions the Tribes herding the salmon into gillnets with powerboats at the narrow mouth of the river; a few years ago, they were harvesting more than half the returning fall chinook. This subject has more lies printed about it than any other environmental issue on the West Coast, as far as I can tell.
Well, not "every" stock pond, but so many that several years ago a federal judge ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider whether the fish should be listed, and the Service has been ignoring the judge ever since.
Wasp needs to see this. The Austrian is stepping on a hornets nest.
Why don't you go worry about squirrles. This is serious stuff here.
Why am I not surprised by the dual citizen pulling crap like this. Why the hell does he continue to call himself Republican?
Yeah, I meant to ping a few folks but got sidetracked.
I think I'm gonna just HURL!!! This is a preliminary indicator of how hard this joker is gonna be to live under during the next four years... Mark My Words!!!
This wouldn't be any worse than having Bruce Babbit as CA Governor, or for that matter, his right hand man at Interior... John "The Fish Come First" Garamendi!!!
What's worse, no REPUBLICAN will ever have the intestinal fortitude to stop this pathetic dude from promoting this damaged thinking, or non-thinking attitude!!!
And some of you FReepers want the rest of us to cast our votes for this turkey in good conscience??? You've just GOT to be kidding me!!!
And straight from pww.org, the communist news source.
>>“We have the problems of water quality, water supply, listed species, energy generation, and agricultural sustainability expressed in countless ways in the Klamath Basin,” Governor Kulongoski said.<<
Pushing Agenda 21 hard for the 2010 meetings. Attaboy, Governor.
Walt my FRiend, I think it's getting close to take up the battle axe....
Just like first mortgage holders, or corporate bond holders, the property owner with water rights comes first and does NOT share common status with all other "claimants" or "stakeholders" or "claim-jumpers!
The property owner with inalienable and self-evidident property rights that has the rightful control of all his property and accompanying water rights wrested away from him by federal, state, local, or any other governmental entity is being denied one of the most fundamental and elementary reasons this nation was founded in 1776!!!
This right ranks right up there with freedom of speech, religion and the right to keep and bare arms to defend said property and it's inherint rights!!! What this Governor has suggested in this statement is blatantly UN-American in every respect!!!
Is your Republican taxer and spender as full of GANG-GREEN as our Repbulican borrower and spender?
Best not "bare" those arms or they will be confiscated, SW. ;-)
(I'm just tryin' to keep that sense of humor you were talkin' about earlier).
That is really the no-kidding and righteous actual Communist News Sorce and they're calling it a vast victory!!! I think I've actually understated the magnitude of the Un-American attitude of our petulant/flattulent CA Governor!!!
Am I the only one that has the guts to say it right here in FR??? Right before an election??? What??? After we fought the good fight for the Klamath Farmers in the not so distant past???
Any "CONsensus" arrived at at any "summit" called by these goofy Governors will innur to the benefit of the "claim-jumpers" and will serve to strip the rightful owners of water rights for "the highest and best use" of the water as has ALWAYS been well known and understood by EVERYONE to be for the needs of humans above all else.
We are NOT a nation that was established to create affirmative action for fish and plants and welfare for wildlife!!!
Neither Schwartzenegger, not the Oregone Governor can make this come out a "win/win" situation that helps both the economics of humans simultaneously with the needs of every form of wildlife from fish, to foul, to bacteria!!!
The flaura and fauna are important, but they do NOT come first before human needs!!! If that were true, then we would have sacrificed all of America to the animal world and indigious savages from the get-go!!!
If the people that populate FR won't stand strong against this preverted altruism while calling themselves "conservatives," then all is lost as far as I'm concerned and I'll hang my head in shame for having hung with you all!!!
A dim from Oregon who has been governor here for too long. Saxton, although more of a RINO, may defeat him this year.
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