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FAQ: Making sense of summer spill science: The current debate over eliminating or reducing summer spill over dams for salmon has little to do with whether summer spill itself is biologically beneficial. Rather, federal agencies are arguing for a reduction in spill so that additional electricity can be generated from federal dams.
FAQ: A $6 billion ticket to extinction: A Summary of the Bush Administration’s Columbia & Snake River Salmon Plan
6001 Final Summary.pdf: 4-24-07 - ESSB 6001, passed by Washington state’s legislature April 17, codifies the emissions-reduction goals and policy recommendations in Gov. Chris Gregoire’s “Climate Change Challenge” executive order 07-02, issued Feb. 7, 2007.
FAQ: Comparison of 4 Lower Snakes Dam Power Replacement Costs: 3-14-06 - The Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition (SOS) study, Revenue Stream, included and estimate of the cost to replace the 4LSR dams’ power output. Other reviews challenged Revenue Stream’s results. This table compares the three studies’ assumptions and results.
A Fair Shake For Salmon Communities: Myths and Facts Regarding Plaintiff's Injunctive Relief Request - A coalition of businesses, fishermen, clean energy advocates, and conservation plaintiffs filed an injunctive relief request to establish specific protections for salmon that migrate through the Columbia and Snake rivers in summer. Some interests have cast the injunction as an extreme measure sure to destroy the Northwest economy, when the injunction actually seeks no more than a simple, fair shake for salmon-based communities in a bad water year.
FAQ: Energy conservation, renewable resources and low-income weatherization: Why are investments in energy conservation, renewable resources and low-income weatherization so important?
FAQ: Why Energy Matters: By using energy more efficiently in our homes, businesses and industries, we can reduce the need for new power plant construction
FAQ: IGCC and New Coal Technologies: April 2006 - Billions of dollars in federal subsidies have been and continue to be sunk into developing "clean coal" alternatives to traditional pulverized coal-burning power plants. The clean-coal technology of the moment is integrated gasification combined cycle, or IGCC. While IGCC has great potential, it must clear a number of technical and economic hurdles.
FAQ: Proposed Kalama Coal Plant: April 2006 - Energy Northwest wants to build a 600-megawatt electricity-generating plant on an 80-acre industrial site in Kalama, on the Columbia River just south of Longview, WA. The proposed plant – called the Pacific Mountain Energy Center -- is slated to start operating in 2012.