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by Juliet Grable at opb.org Drawdown of three reservoirs on the Klamath River is well underway, and this step in the dam removal process has already dramatically altered the landscape along the river in Southern Oregon and far Northern California. Iron Gate, the lowest of the three remaining dams, was first breached on Jan. 9, […]
via americanrivers.org Update February 16, 2024: The Copco 1, JC Boyle, and Iron Gate dams have fully completed the drawdown process which refers to the draining of each dams’ reservoir. Draining the reservoirs is a critical step on the path to deconstructing the remaining three Klamath River dams that are slated for removal later this […]
by Conor Coughlin On March 26th, California officials in Siskiyou County declared a local State of Emergency after the ‘fish experts’ at the Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC) had created one the largest man-made ecological disasters in U.S. history. Mark Bransom, the CEO of KRRC had apparently made a unilateral decision to go ‘off-plan’ on […]
by William Simpson at californiaglobe.com According to an April 9th Letter from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to Klamath River Renewal Corporation, “… Kiewit has aborted the Iron Gate Development drilling program in its entirety…” An old NASA phrase comes to mind… Houston, we have a problem! In a letter dated April 9, 2024 from […]
by Conor Coughlin Last year the Seattle Times reported that Sen. Patty Murray and Washington State governor Jay Inslee commissioned, and released a report on all the benefits from removing the dams on the Snake River in the Columbia Basin. The cost to meet this Democrat fish-saving goal, is allegedly between $10.3 billion and $27.2 billion. Which […]
by William Simpson at californiaglobe.com On Tuesday March 26th, the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors declared a local State of Emergency in regard to the adverse impacts of the Klamath Dam removal project affecting the Klamath River. Details of that action by the County’s Board of Supervisors can be found at the California Globe. For nearly two-years, the […]
by Juliet Grable at opb.org Drawdown of three reservoirs on the Klamath River is well underway, and this step in the dam removal process has already dramatically altered the landscape along the river in Southern Oregon and far Northern California. Iron Gate, the lowest of the three remaining dams, was first breached on Jan. 9, […]