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FEDERAL AGENCIES TO RE-EVALUATE ITS PLAN TO DESTROY DAMS IN THE NORTHWEST Dec. 20, 2024
Agri-Pulse reports:
Three federal agencies in charge of operating dams along the Columbia and Snake Rivers intend to reevaluate the project's environmental impact after the Biden administration forged new agreements with local tribes frustrated over declining salmon populations.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bonneville Power Administration plan to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement with updated information about the dams, the endangered species that live in or along the river, and changes in the river's flow caused by the ongoing renegotiation of a treaty with Canada.
The dams have been a source of controversy along the river in recent years, with tribes, environmental groups and fishermen arguing they should be breached to revive shrunken salmon populations. Farmers, shippers and utilities have fiercely opposed that move. It would end a shipping route for 10% of the nation's wheat exports, reduce renewable power supplies, and eliminate a water source for irrigating thousands of acres of farmland.
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