If you would like more information about what's happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me.
I lost my Oregon list when my computer crashed last year, so please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
Just enough water to fight over...
The battleground is the 13,000-square-mile Klamath River Basin between southern Oregon and northern California. The listing of salmon and sucker fish under the Endangered Species Act in the 1990s touched off years of fighting over water rights, and anger boiled over in 2001 when the feds shut off water to farmers in the region, in a bid to help endangered fish.
Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement (KBRA) in 2010.. calls for the removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River.
All told, the dams are 400 feet high and can produce 145 megawatts of carbon-free power - and taking them offline would make this the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, far exceeding the removal of the 210-foot Elwha Dam in Washington state in 2012.
Oregon’s lone Republican member of Congress, Greg Walden, wrote a bill that would give 100,000 acres of federal forest land to local counties to be managed for timber revenue. The legislation is designed to compensate Siskiyou County in California and Klamath County in Oregon for the loss of tax revenue from the dams.
Who need hydroelectric dams? I get my electricity from the wall outlet.
And who the heck needs water? I get my water from the faucet!!!
And who the hell needs farms? I get my food from the grocery store.
Geesh, it’s like I’m the only smart person in the world with my Prius and recycle all my trash. 8 years of Gender Studies made me pretty smart you know...
Great memories of how FR helped to stop the eco terrorists from destroying the ranchers, farmers below the lake.
I was just a newbee, and I realized how effective FR and FReepers could be when we got organized.
After the eco nazi terrorist backed down, a few us funded a big billboard off I5 slamming the eco nazis. It was up just in time for Al Gorebull Warming to see it on a visit.
Good times and good FRiends and memories were made.
If you would like more information about what's happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me.
I lost my Oregon list when my computer crashed last year, so please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
Makes me wonder...what ever happened to Jeff Head?
Did it address the tons and tons and tons of silt behind the dams that would smother salmon spawning beds down river...
Bookmark