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Klamath News: Dam Removal Would Boost Economy
This week's Klamath River News is highlighted by a report that the Karuk Tribe filed with FERC showing how dam removal would boost the economy of Siskiyou County.
KLAMATH RIVER NEWS: Nov. 14
* DAM REMOVAL WOULD BOOST ECONOMY
* U.S COURT BACKS TRIBE IN FIGHT OVER CALPINE POWER PLANT
* KLAMATH FARMERS APPEAL ORDER OVER SALMON
* ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SAVOR POMBO'S DEFEAT
ACTION ALERTS:
* KLAMATH DAMS HEARING THIS WEEK:
Come to Yreka on the 14th, Arcata on the 15th or North Bend, OR on the 29th. Written comments due
on Dec 1st
* MT. ASHLAND PROJECT OPEN HOUSE IN ASHLAND THIS THURSDAY:
Massive road-building on Mt. Ashland will impact Klamath Coho in Beaver Creek
STUDY DAM REMOVAL WOULD PROVIDE SIGNIFICANT BOOST TO SISKIYOU COUNTY ECONOMY
Tourism and construction industries would see biggest benefit.
Happy Camp, CA - Last week the Karuk Tribe filed a report with FERC that outlines the economic benefits of dam removal for Siskiyou County. The study was performed by Ecotrust, a Portland based NGO.
"Dam removal is about more than fish, it's about jobs and the economy," according to Karuk Vice chairman Leaf Hilllman. "This could be the biggest injection of capital this county has seen since the construction of Interstate 5." Estimates of dam removal costs range from $100 to $200 million.
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=16488
U.S. COURT BACKS TRIBE IN FIGHT OVER CALPINE PLANT
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 6 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court backed an Indian tribe on Monday in a fight in which the bankrupt power producer Calpine Corp (CPNLQ.PK: Quote, Profile, Research) had sought to build a geothermal plant in an area Native Americans consider sacred.
San Jose, California-based Calpine planned to erect a plant on leased U.S. Forest Service land in the northern Mount Shasta region of California after more than a decade of planning.
The Pit River Tribe sued in federal court over the plan in 2002, saying the 66-square-mile Medicine Lake Highlands is sacred ground even if not part of the tribe's reservation.
The tribe lost its initial legal fight, but on Monday the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court and ruled against U.S. government agencies, saying they had improperly extended the leases to Calpine for the land.
"We conclude that the agencies did not take a 'hard look' at the environmental consequences of the 1998 lease extensions and never adequately considered the no-action alternative," Judge Clifford Wallace wrote for a three-judge panel.
"The agencies violated their duties...and their fiduciary duties to the Pit River Tribe by failing to complete an environmental impact statement before extending Calpine's leases in 1998," he continued. "Hence, both the five-year lease extensions and the subsequent forty-year extensions must be undone."
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-11-07T011310Z_01_N06256666_RTRIDST_0_ENVIRONMENT-CALPINE.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
KLAMATH FARMERS APPEAL ORDER OVER SALMON
GRANTS PASS, Ore. Klamath Basin farmers are going ahead with their appeal of a federal court ruling that gave more water to salmon, raising doubts among salmon advocates that farmers are really interested in solving the region's environmental problems.
Attorneys for the Klamath Water Users Association, which represents about 1,000 farms irrigated by the Klamath Reclamation Project, filed a brief Monday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in their appeal of an injunction speeding up the timetable for the government to increase Klamath River flows for threatened coho salmon.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4332872.html
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SAVOR POMBO'S DEFEAT AS SIGN OF NEW POWER
Rather than attacking record, activists painted incumbent as a corrupt servant In playing a critical role in the defeat of seven-term GOP incumbent Richard W. Pombo of Tracy, environmental groups demonstrated political muscle that has eluded them for years. But when the votes were counted, Pombo, the powerful chairman of the House Resources Committee and a longtime incumbent in a comfortably Republican district, had been unseated by Democrat Jerry McNerney, a wind power expert he trounced two years ago.
Analysts say that along with the environmental effort, a variety of factors undermined Pombo: the anti-incumbency mood that swept across the nation, Pombo's brush with the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and the changing nature of his district.
On the resources committee, which shapes public lands, energy and water legislation, Pombo is likely to be replaced as chairman by ranking Democrat Nick J. Rahall II of West Virginia, a 30-year incumbent who has fought many of Pombo's efforts to weaken environmental laws and open up public lands to private development.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-me-defenders9nov09,1,6713843.story?coll=la-news-a_section/view
ACTION ALERTS:
KLAMATH DAMS HEARINGS THIS WEEK!
COME OUT TO THE PUBLIC HEARINGS ON THE KLAMATH DAMS:
TESTIFY FOR DAM REMOVAL AND SALMON: Nov 14th, 15th and 16th, and 29th
DATE : Tuesday, November 14, 2006
TIME : 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon (PST)
PLACE : Shilo Inn ADDRESS: 2500 Almond Street : Klamath Falls, Oregon
DATE : Wednesday, November 15, 2006
TIME : 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon (PST) PLACE : Yreka Community Theatre
ADDRESS:812 North Oregon Street : Yreka, California
DATE : Wednesday, November 15, 2006
TIME : 7:00 -10:00 p.m. (PST) PLACE : Yreka Community Theatre
ADDRESS: 812 North Oregon Street Yreka, California
DATE : Thursday, November 16, 2006 TIME : 7:00 -10:00 p.m. (PST)
PLACE : Red Lion Hotel
ADDRESS: 1929 Fourth Street Eureka, California
Costal hearing just scheduled for North Bend on the Oregon coast on Nov 29th.
Contact John Mudre at e-mail address john.mudre [at] ferc.gov, or by telephone at (202) 502-8902 for info on this hearing.
COMMENT IN ASHLAND THURSDAY FOR MT. ASHLAND/ KLAMATH SALMON
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Yreka Field Office and the Klamath National Forest will be hosting an open house to provide information about the Mt. Ashland Late Successional Reserve (LSR) Habitat Restoration and Fuels Reduction Project. The open house will be conducted on November 16th, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office at 1829 North Oregon Street in Yreka, California.
The purpose of the open house is to share information on the progress of the Mt. Ashland LSR Project; to display minor changes that have occurred to the Proposed Action since the October 3, 2005 scoping letter; and to show how information provided by interested individuals and groups has been used to develop alternatives to the proposed action. The open house will have displays of information (maps, photos, handouts) about the project, and the designers of the project will be available to answer questions.
For more information about the Mt. Ashland LSR Habitat Restoration and Fuels Reduction Project, please join us on November 16th. For information about this open house, contact Leona Rodreick of the Klamath National Forest at 530-841-4485 or Dave Johnson of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at (530) 842-5763.
* NOTE: While parts of this project are good, the Klamath National Forest is proposing 9 miles of road-building as part of this project. This is mainly in Beaver Creek where road density is at 5 miles of road per mile of forest and clear-cut logging is present in most of the watershed. Please comment that while the fuels reduction in the project is a good idea, Beaver Creek is extremely sediment impaired and is a stronghold for Klamath River Coho Salmon. Therefore 9 miles of road-building on land-slide prone slopes is not acceptable.
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/klamath/news/2006/11/ashland.shtml
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL KS WILD AT 541 488-5789
For more information on any of these comments or to volunteer contact the Klamath Riverkeeper at klamath [at] riseup.net of 530-627-3280 (California), or 541-951-0126 (Oregon and cell)
To get involved contact the Klamath Restoration Council at klamath [at] riseup.net or call (530) 627-3446 ext. 3020. To be removed from list or subscribe go to https://lists.riseup.net/www and type in klamath list then hit subscribe or unsubscribe.
Our mission is to restore and protect the uniquely diverse ecosystem and to promote substainable management of the natural resources of the entire Klamath Watershed.
The Klamath Restoration Council is a special project of the Karuk Tribe's Department of Natural Resources.
* DAM REMOVAL WOULD BOOST ECONOMY
* U.S COURT BACKS TRIBE IN FIGHT OVER CALPINE POWER PLANT
* KLAMATH FARMERS APPEAL ORDER OVER SALMON
* ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SAVOR POMBO'S DEFEAT
ACTION ALERTS:
* KLAMATH DAMS HEARING THIS WEEK:
Come to Yreka on the 14th, Arcata on the 15th or North Bend, OR on the 29th. Written comments due
on Dec 1st
* MT. ASHLAND PROJECT OPEN HOUSE IN ASHLAND THIS THURSDAY:
Massive road-building on Mt. Ashland will impact Klamath Coho in Beaver Creek
STUDY DAM REMOVAL WOULD PROVIDE SIGNIFICANT BOOST TO SISKIYOU COUNTY ECONOMY
Tourism and construction industries would see biggest benefit.
Happy Camp, CA - Last week the Karuk Tribe filed a report with FERC that outlines the economic benefits of dam removal for Siskiyou County. The study was performed by Ecotrust, a Portland based NGO.
"Dam removal is about more than fish, it's about jobs and the economy," according to Karuk Vice chairman Leaf Hilllman. "This could be the biggest injection of capital this county has seen since the construction of Interstate 5." Estimates of dam removal costs range from $100 to $200 million.
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=16488
U.S. COURT BACKS TRIBE IN FIGHT OVER CALPINE PLANT
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 6 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court backed an Indian tribe on Monday in a fight in which the bankrupt power producer Calpine Corp (CPNLQ.PK: Quote, Profile, Research) had sought to build a geothermal plant in an area Native Americans consider sacred.
San Jose, California-based Calpine planned to erect a plant on leased U.S. Forest Service land in the northern Mount Shasta region of California after more than a decade of planning.
The Pit River Tribe sued in federal court over the plan in 2002, saying the 66-square-mile Medicine Lake Highlands is sacred ground even if not part of the tribe's reservation.
The tribe lost its initial legal fight, but on Monday the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court and ruled against U.S. government agencies, saying they had improperly extended the leases to Calpine for the land.
"We conclude that the agencies did not take a 'hard look' at the environmental consequences of the 1998 lease extensions and never adequately considered the no-action alternative," Judge Clifford Wallace wrote for a three-judge panel.
"The agencies violated their duties...and their fiduciary duties to the Pit River Tribe by failing to complete an environmental impact statement before extending Calpine's leases in 1998," he continued. "Hence, both the five-year lease extensions and the subsequent forty-year extensions must be undone."
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-11-07T011310Z_01_N06256666_RTRIDST_0_ENVIRONMENT-CALPINE.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
KLAMATH FARMERS APPEAL ORDER OVER SALMON
GRANTS PASS, Ore. Klamath Basin farmers are going ahead with their appeal of a federal court ruling that gave more water to salmon, raising doubts among salmon advocates that farmers are really interested in solving the region's environmental problems.
Attorneys for the Klamath Water Users Association, which represents about 1,000 farms irrigated by the Klamath Reclamation Project, filed a brief Monday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in their appeal of an injunction speeding up the timetable for the government to increase Klamath River flows for threatened coho salmon.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4332872.html
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SAVOR POMBO'S DEFEAT AS SIGN OF NEW POWER
Rather than attacking record, activists painted incumbent as a corrupt servant In playing a critical role in the defeat of seven-term GOP incumbent Richard W. Pombo of Tracy, environmental groups demonstrated political muscle that has eluded them for years. But when the votes were counted, Pombo, the powerful chairman of the House Resources Committee and a longtime incumbent in a comfortably Republican district, had been unseated by Democrat Jerry McNerney, a wind power expert he trounced two years ago.
Analysts say that along with the environmental effort, a variety of factors undermined Pombo: the anti-incumbency mood that swept across the nation, Pombo's brush with the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and the changing nature of his district.
On the resources committee, which shapes public lands, energy and water legislation, Pombo is likely to be replaced as chairman by ranking Democrat Nick J. Rahall II of West Virginia, a 30-year incumbent who has fought many of Pombo's efforts to weaken environmental laws and open up public lands to private development.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-me-defenders9nov09,1,6713843.story?coll=la-news-a_section/view
ACTION ALERTS:
KLAMATH DAMS HEARINGS THIS WEEK!
COME OUT TO THE PUBLIC HEARINGS ON THE KLAMATH DAMS:
TESTIFY FOR DAM REMOVAL AND SALMON: Nov 14th, 15th and 16th, and 29th
DATE : Tuesday, November 14, 2006
TIME : 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon (PST)
PLACE : Shilo Inn ADDRESS: 2500 Almond Street : Klamath Falls, Oregon
DATE : Wednesday, November 15, 2006
TIME : 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon (PST) PLACE : Yreka Community Theatre
ADDRESS:812 North Oregon Street : Yreka, California
DATE : Wednesday, November 15, 2006
TIME : 7:00 -10:00 p.m. (PST) PLACE : Yreka Community Theatre
ADDRESS: 812 North Oregon Street Yreka, California
DATE : Thursday, November 16, 2006 TIME : 7:00 -10:00 p.m. (PST)
PLACE : Red Lion Hotel
ADDRESS: 1929 Fourth Street Eureka, California
Costal hearing just scheduled for North Bend on the Oregon coast on Nov 29th.
Contact John Mudre at e-mail address john.mudre [at] ferc.gov, or by telephone at (202) 502-8902 for info on this hearing.
COMMENT IN ASHLAND THURSDAY FOR MT. ASHLAND/ KLAMATH SALMON
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Yreka Field Office and the Klamath National Forest will be hosting an open house to provide information about the Mt. Ashland Late Successional Reserve (LSR) Habitat Restoration and Fuels Reduction Project. The open house will be conducted on November 16th, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office at 1829 North Oregon Street in Yreka, California.
The purpose of the open house is to share information on the progress of the Mt. Ashland LSR Project; to display minor changes that have occurred to the Proposed Action since the October 3, 2005 scoping letter; and to show how information provided by interested individuals and groups has been used to develop alternatives to the proposed action. The open house will have displays of information (maps, photos, handouts) about the project, and the designers of the project will be available to answer questions.
For more information about the Mt. Ashland LSR Habitat Restoration and Fuels Reduction Project, please join us on November 16th. For information about this open house, contact Leona Rodreick of the Klamath National Forest at 530-841-4485 or Dave Johnson of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at (530) 842-5763.
* NOTE: While parts of this project are good, the Klamath National Forest is proposing 9 miles of road-building as part of this project. This is mainly in Beaver Creek where road density is at 5 miles of road per mile of forest and clear-cut logging is present in most of the watershed. Please comment that while the fuels reduction in the project is a good idea, Beaver Creek is extremely sediment impaired and is a stronghold for Klamath River Coho Salmon. Therefore 9 miles of road-building on land-slide prone slopes is not acceptable.
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/klamath/news/2006/11/ashland.shtml
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL KS WILD AT 541 488-5789
For more information on any of these comments or to volunteer contact the Klamath Riverkeeper at klamath [at] riseup.net of 530-627-3280 (California), or 541-951-0126 (Oregon and cell)
To get involved contact the Klamath Restoration Council at klamath [at] riseup.net or call (530) 627-3446 ext. 3020. To be removed from list or subscribe go to https://lists.riseup.net/www and type in klamath list then hit subscribe or unsubscribe.
Our mission is to restore and protect the uniquely diverse ecosystem and to promote substainable management of the natural resources of the entire Klamath Watershed.
The Klamath Restoration Council is a special project of the Karuk Tribe's Department of Natural Resources.
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