Judge rules Bush hydro plan violates Endangered Species Act

[Newsjock]

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_052605_env_salmon_dams.2b2719d57.html

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Bush administration's plan for balancing salmon against hydroelectric dams in the Columbia Basin violates the Endangered Species Act.

U.S. District Judge James Redden in Portland ruled in favor of a challenge by environmentalists, Indian tribes and fishermen.

Redden had previously ruled that a biological opinion issued by the Bush administration in 2000 was illegal.

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[fooj]

1. All well and good if Shrub gave a crap...

:banghead: His behavior indicates that he isn't interested in "the law"...



peace.

[baby_bear]

2. Doesn't matter about Shrub

Although DOJ will probably appeal.

No details available yet on the ruling itself.

b_b

[driver8]

3. "I'm a dictator, see...and I don't have to explain nothin' to the

'Merkan people. I do what I want and no one, and I mean no one, tells this dictator what to do."

[swag]

4. The adult salmon returns have been almost non-existent this year.

If anybody wants any extremely detailed information about the relationship between spill and juvenile salmon downstream survival (and adult returns in subsequent years) in the Columbia River Basin, the group that has it all is the Fish Passage Center:

http://www.fpc.org/

Bonneville Power Administration has been trying to neuter this NPPC-mandated data collection and reporting organization for years, but the data speak powerfully and loudly, and the staff is fearsomely dedicated.

[pinniped]

5. The first year in office and the POS* already set the course for the...

continued demise of wild salmon. These evil POS came to office with death and destruction on their evil minds.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/opb/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=777245

--In its plan to save Columbia River salmon, the Bush administration proposed spending six billion dollars to make dams safer. But it also took the controversial stance that dams are an immutable part of the natural environment and could not be removed to save fish.--