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Northern Star wants THIS program to save salmon?
« Thread Started on Jul 31, 2007, 5:15pm »

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Special Report: Cascadia Times
In Defense of Salmon

The Bush Administration, the Bonneville Power Administration and other federal agencies are proposing less protection for Columbia River salmon than they did three years ago when the last salmon recovery plan was published. A federal judge threw out that plan because it violated the Endangered Species Act. Cascadia Times has reviewed a leaked draft of Bonneville's new plan, which shows it wants to do less, not more, for the endangered fish.
Part of the Administration's strategy is to coerce Columbia River Indian tribes into supporting its plan by threatening to cut jobs for tribal members. The tribes reluctantly agreed to take the jobs in exchange for their support, but only reluctantly and only for 2007. (Poverty on their reservations is very high, largely because of Bonneville's salmon-killing hydro operations and historic overfishing). The tribes say the deal, announced in January, may hurt the salmon, and vow not to sign such an agreement again, even though Bonneville is threatening to cut tribal jobs next year if they don't. A lawyer for plaintiffs suing the government on behalf of salmon called the coercion "a mugging on the way to the courthouse."
A showdown between the Administration and Federal Judge James Redden looms this summer as the government looks for a way around his rulings to protect the salmon. Bonneville may turn to the "God Squad" if the court rejects its salmon plan again, sources say. The God Squad can overturn court decisions under the Act for economic reasons.
Bonneville claims salmon programs have cost the hydropower-marketing agency nearly $10 billion, but the Cascadia Times report challenges the accuracy of the figure. And it asks the question: "$10 billion for... what?" Salmon runs are continuing their dramatic slide. Salmon populations in the Columbia have declined more than 50 percent since 2001 as the Bush administration has failed to implement a legally valid salmon-rescue plan for the Columbia. Thirteen salmon populations in the Columbia are on the endangered species list.
Scientists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been gagged for criticizing the Administration's forthcoming salmon plan. They have been barred from internal discussions on salmon recovery planning, and have been told not to talk to the press about their critique. The Fish and Wildlife Service has refused to make the critique available to the public, rejecting Cascadia Times' efforts to obtain it under the Freedom of Information Act. Cascadia Times is appealing that decision. The next draft of Bonneville's plan is expected April 16.
Meanwhile, this spring wild Chinook salmon continue to die by the millions in the Hanford Reach National Monument near Richland. Hydro operations are killing them every day by causing the Columbia River’s water level to fluctuate wildly up and down, exposing countless salmon to the desert sun or trapping them in landlocked pools. The section of the Columbia flowing through the Hanford Reach is the last free-flowing stretch of the river and is supposed to be a refuge for wild salmon. Instead, it has been turned into a killing field. Efforts to fix the problem have failed, according to a report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

And this is the exact same program the outfit trying to move into Bradwood wants to use to "restore" the salmon it will destroy by dredging the shoreline and using the Columbia River to rinse and cool it's holding tanks.

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