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GAME FOR WILD SNAKE RIVER SALMON AND STEELHEAD
The Endangered Species Act is being perverted to save four
costly pork-barrel dams on the lower Snake River in S.E. Washington
at the expense of endangered salmon. At risk is an evolutionary
heritage tens of millions of years old that since the Ice Age has
uniquely adapted to infinite habitat niches nearly l,000 miles
inland from the Pacific Ocean.
“I come to bear witness to the official death of the salmon restoration promise of what is commonly called the Northwest Power Act. Thank you for the opportunity to speak on this historic occasion.”
Statement of Ed Chaney presented to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. Boise, Idaho. April 13, 2010.
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“The draft Sixth Power Plan continues the Council’s three‐decades‐long egregious betrayal of the public trust by seeking to subvert the intent of Congress and the letter of the Pacific Northwest Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980.”
Comments of Ed Chaney on the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Draft 6th Power Plan, November 5, 2009.
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25 Years of Failure = Threatened Extinction & A Cascade of Economic and Social Disasters
Time to Resurrect the Unfulfilled Promise of the Northwest Power Act of 1980
Remarks of Ed Chaney, on the failure of governance and resultant threatened extinction of wild Snake RIver salmon and steelhead. Presented to Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority, Portland, Oregon, February 2005.
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Idaho
Economic Effects of Breaching/Not Breaching the Army Corps of Engineers'
Snake River Dams in S.E. Washington—A
Survey of the Disconnect Between Economic and Political Realities,
March
2002
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The Army Corps of Engineers estimated that breaching the four lower Snake River dams would
cost Idaho $32 million per year.
In fact, even using the Corps' flawed numbers, breaching would produce at least $93 million
per year future net benefit to Idaho. Idaho has lost an estimated $1.9 billion to date as
the result of the Corps' failure to meet its obligation to mitigate for the loss of salmon
and steelhead at the lower Snake River dams.
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Army Corps
of Engineers Surrenders to Columbia River Pork Alliance
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In
February, 2002 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers surrendered
unconditionally to the Columbia River Pork Alliance.
The Corps
officially announced that its four dams on the lower Snake
River in southeastern Washington should not be breached–partially
removed–to restore a free-flowing river. Instead, migrating
juvenile salmon and steelhead should be removed from the river
and hauled in trucks and barges hundreds of miles downstream
to the Columbia River estuary for release.
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Duping The Northwest and Nation—The
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Economics of Restoring Endangered Snake
River Salmon, December, 2000.
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The
Corps "cooked the books" to create the false illusion that
straining juvenile Snake River salmon out of the river and
barging them 400 miles to the Columbia River estuary would
be economically superior to allowing the fish to migrate naturally.
In fact,
breaching the four lower Snake River dams would produce more
than $1 billion per year in total Northwest benefits while
keeping whole affected waterway shippers and irrigators.
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