Great News for Klamath Salmon - Judge Rebukes PacifiCorp
By Tom Chandler on Sep 29, 2006 in Environment, Fly Fishing, News
The battered, beaten Klamath River’s salmon and steelhead runs received some good news this week when a judge backed a push requiring Pacificorp to install fish ladders instead of the less-costly (and likely fruitless) trucking plan proposed by the utility.
This decision comes on the heels of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) decision that sided with the utility, but then, FERC are largely a bunch of yahoos unconcerned with environmental issues.
Many opponents of Pacificorp’s trucking plan now believe that the cost of building fish ladders will convince the utility to simply remove the series of dams on the Klamath, helping restore the runs of salmon that have been so dismal lately that slamon fishing up and down the West Coast was severely restricted this year.
More on this cool new development at the LA Times…
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