The demolition of the Klamath River dams is a huge victory for Native American tribes who depend on the fish.
PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday toand open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward.
“The Klamath salmon are coming home,” Yurok Chairman Joseph James said after the vote. “The people have earned this victory and with it, we carry on our sacred duty to the fish that have sustained our people since the beginning of time.” “We’re closing coal plants and building wind farms and it all just has to add up in the end. It’s not a one-to-one,” he said of the coming dam demolition. “You can make up that power by the way you operate the rest of your facilities or having energy efficiency savings so your customers are using less.”
across the U.S. as they come up for license renewal and confront the same government-mandated upgrade costs as the Klamath River dams would have had. “Some people might ask in this time of great need for zero emissions, ‘Why are we removing the dams?’ First, we have to understand this doesn’t happen every day … a lot of these projects were licensed a number of years back when there wasn’t as much focus on environmental issues,” said FERC Chairman Richard Glick. “Some of these projects have a significant impact on the environment and a significant impact on fish.
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