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Use your voice to hold the Bonneville Power Administration accountable!
Our Northwest salmon and steelhead are on the brink of extinction and Idaho’s pristine river habitat is the best remaining in the region. Our rugged, high-elevation landscape with cold, free-flowing rivers in the Salmon River Basin are the beating pulse of salmon country.
On December 15th, 2023 the White House reiterated its commitment to salmon recovery, announcing a substantial development in the long standing litigation between the federal government and Tribes, conservation organizations, and the states of Washington and Oregon toward the removal of the four Lower Snake River dams. This promising demonstration by the Administration is a commitment to honoring Treaty rights of Columbia Basin sovereign Tribes, preventing salmon and steelhead extinction, and transitioning the region to real, clean energy solutions. After three decades of court battles, fishing, conservation, and renewable energy organizations, along with Tribes and states, have agreed to a multi-year pause in litigation.
However, Idaho Rivers United, along with our litigation partners, will not stop working until dam removal is approved by Congress. We need your support to continue to speak up and ensure that decisive, urgent and bold action will be implemented and build on these initial steps. The fish don’t have any more time to waste.
BPA has continuously placed its twin mandates of hydropower sales and recovering salmon at odds, to the detriment of native fish populations. However, they needn’t be conflicting mandates – BPA must move away from an over-reliance on the hydrosystem and prioritize non-hydro renewables, conservation, energy storage, and demand response to ensure its generating portfolio is resilient to climate change and better aligned with the position of the federal government on recovering wild salmonid stocks to abundance.
We do not have to choose between salmon recovery or the services provided by the Lower Snake River Dams. With planning and engagement by federal agencies in the region, we can have a diverse, reliable, and clean energy grid alongside abundant runs of salmon, while meeting federal Treaty and trust requirements to Tribes – all to the benefit of our communities and local economies in Idaho and the Northwest.
Thank you for your support and advocacy for wild salmon and steelhead recovery!
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