New report on Snake River dams could affect power bills

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

EVERETT — Four dams on the lower Snake River help to keep the lights on throughout the Pacific Northwest, as key suppliers of electricity for the Seattle metro area and Snohomish County.

The dams also pose 100-foot-tall obstacles for a dwindling population of salmon, and the orcas who depend on them.

This week environmentalists, farmers, tribal leaders and public utility officials are anxiously awaiting a federal report about whether the salmon and dams can coexist, or not, on the Snake. The report is expected to be released Friday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Bonneville Power Administration.

Options range from doing nothing to the dams between Pasco and Lewiston, Idaho, or completely breaching them.

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[2naSalit]

1. this is a decades-long fight

that has been raging unresolved while salmon species go extinct. These dams obstruct the nutrient bearing salmon from their spawning grounds in central Idaho, those nutrients don't get there any other way as they come from the ocean. So the forest have essentially been starved ever since these dame were built which leads to all diseases and infestations the actual trees are dying from and all the other species are affected. Like wolves, salmon are a keystone species. Without them, the ecosystem dies.