FERC ignores salmon mandates, recommends keeping Klamath dams

FERC ignores salmon mandates, recommends keeping Klamath dams Associated Press article on FERC recommending to keep PacifiCorp’s four hydroelectric dams. By Jeff Barnard Associated Press November 16, 2007   GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – Federal licensing authorities Friday recommended keeping PacifiCorp’s four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, siding with the utility and ignoring calls […]

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Judge recommends higher electric rates for Klamath irrigators

Judge recommends higher electric rates for Klamath irrigators Associated Press article on the possibility of Klamath basin irrigators paying more than 0.6 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity. By Jeff Barnard Associated Press November 14, 2007 GRANTS PASS, Ore. — An administrative law judge has recommended that Klamath farmers’ request for continued cut-rate electricity to pump

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Troubled Waters, Part III: The settlement talks — path to a solution or political fix?

Troubled Waters, Part III: The settlement talks — path to a solution or political fix? By H. Bruce Miller Source Weekly October 11, 2007   Drive around the back roads near Klamath Falls and you’ll still come across a few hand-lettered signs left over from the spring of 2002, when federal officials shut off irrigation

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Triple threat to ag: Development, restoration, climate issues mount

Triple threat to ag: Development, restoration, climate issues mount Capital Press article discussing a recent Family Farm Alliance report titled “Water Supply in a Changing Climate.” By Mateusz Perkowski Capital Press September 14, 2007   According to a recent report by the Family Farm Alliance, more storage facilities and canals like this one are needed

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Water Wars

Water Wars Street Roots article about Klamath Basin water issues. By Matthew Deschaine Street Roots, Street News Servic August 20, 2007 WaterWatch’s John DeVoe works to keep the public interest in conserving Oregon’s public water (Photograph by Street Roots)   For more than a decade, the Klamath River Basin has been the central front in

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Drifting on the Klamath

Drifting on the Klamath Eugene Register-Guard editorial responding to Senator Gordon Smith’s opinion of the state of Klamath Basin. Eugene Register-Guard August 14, 2007   The problem with Sen. Gordon Smith’s defense of the Bush administration’s 2002 decision to divert Klamath Lake water for irrigation isn’t that the Oregon Republican is wobbly on the facts.

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Cheney Role in Water Policy Explored

Cheney Role in Water Policy Explored The Interior Department’s inspector general found no political interference by Vice President Cheney leading up to the Klamath fish-kill in part because investigators were not looking for it, an Interior official told lawmakers yesterday. By AP washingtonpost.com August 01, 2007   The Interior Department‘s inspector general found no political interference

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The Fight for Water

The Fight for Water Oregon Business Magazine looks at current water issues and water politics in the Oregon Legislature By Robin Doussard Oregon Business Magazine August 01, 2007 AUGUST 2007: COVER STORY Can Oregon meet the demands of its farms, fish and people? The battle lines over a controversial effort during this year’s Legislature to

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Irrigation Empire: Water could someday be treated like a commodity

Irrigation Empire: Water could someday be treated like a commodity By David Hendee Omaha World-Herald July 22, 2007   Access to water is shrinking across Nebraska. As accessibility tightens, the growing value of the state’s greatest natural resource will trigger economic changes that stretch from Alliance to Omaha. Farmers pump more underground water for crops

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Tear it out?: Study will determine the future of Gold Ray Dam, which officials say is no longer practical

Tear it out?: Study will determine the future of Gold Ray Dam, which officials say is no longer practical By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune July 14, 2007   The 35-foot-tall concrete wall that spans the Rogue River makes Gold Ray Dam a large form with very little function. The turbines that first sent electricity to

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Fields of conflict in the Klamath

Fields of conflict in the Klamath Activists say farmers are poised to solidify their presence in the basin’s federal wildlife refuges. By Eric Bailey Los Angeles Times May 07, 2007   TULE LAKE, CALIF. — Under the rolling cloud-scape of the Klamath Basin, a curious rite of spring is underway. Migratory birds are flocking to

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How much water flows? Who knows?

How much water flows? Who knows? By Karen McCowan Eugene Register-Guard March 01, 2007 The state is being urged to get a handle on how much of the precious natural resource is being used   Who’s using how much of Oregon’s most essential natural resource? Nobody really knows. Of the thousands of individuals and groups

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Budget boosts Savage Rapids work

Budget boosts Savage Rapids work By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune February 07, 2007 President Bush’s proposed $2.9 trillion budget for next year includes $15 million toward completing a pumping plant that will lead to the removal of Savage Rapids Dam from the Rogue River by 2010. The money is proposed as part of the federal

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CAMPAIGN 2006: Proposition 84: Bond would preserve, restore state’s waterways

CAMPAIGN 2006: Proposition 84: Bond would preserve, restore state’s waterways By Greg Lucas San Francisco Chronicle October 10, 2006 (10-10) 04:00 PDT Sacramento — Proposition 84 would split $5.4 billion in bond money between a laundry list of water-related projects and spending on natural resources preservation and restoration, including $400 million for state parks. Among the

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The beginning of the end

The beginning of the end By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune October 07, 2006 The days are numbered for Savage Rapids Dam: the structure will likely be a footnote by Dec. 19, 2009 Construction crews are scheduled next week to begin the precursor work that eventually will lead to Savage Rapids Dam’s removal from the Rogue

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