Salmon
Up one levelFAQ: 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
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.
Potential Ratepayer Impact of Replacing Power from the Four Snake River Dams
An analysis by Steve Weiss, NW Energy Coalition - 40 KB PDF File