POWER and DAMS
and ENERGY

In this turn-of-the-century photo, before the Klamath Project was built, Link River occasionally went dry. No fish. No power.

Klamath Project Made Reliable, Regulated Flows Possible For Power        The water over our houses on the previous Tule Lake was dead water; there was no outlet. More water was evaporated than we could ever use for growing crops.         The Klamath Project has allowed more water, than would have been naturally available, to flow down the Klamath River for reliable, affordable power, fish, and Indian and government demands.       Now our government, tribes, power companies and ecogroups want us to have no water for farms or 489 species of wildlife that live in our canals and farmland.

PacifiCorp Table of Contents
Chiloquin Dam (doesn't produce power, but it is a dam blocking 95% of sucker habitat.)
Bonanza COB proposed power plant Table of Contents
Klamath River Compact
cartoon  
Medicine Lake
Renewable Energy: Ethenol, Biofuel, Geothermal, Hydropower

Articles and letters

*Report of the Oregon Klamath River Commission on Water Resources and Requirements of the Upper Klamath Basin December 1954. http://soda.sou.edu/awdata/031217g1.pdf
page 37 regarding Klamath treaty.
   ***Klamath River Compact Commission, Investigation into methods to control algae in the Klamath River Basin.
http://klamathwaterlib.oit.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/kwl&CISOPTR=553&filename=550.pdf
"Excessive algal growth in the Klamath River Basin is a natural phenomenon that has been present for many years." June 1962. (Note that Iron Gate was built in 1962 and at that time, algae was already a documented historic problem). "In order to operate effectively this project should be free of all political pressure and therefore should be supported..." (KBC NOTE: what a concept!)

PRESS RELEASE: Despite Record High Gas Prices, Democrats Again Vote To Stop ANWR Oil Production; Democrats Vote To Keep 10.4 Billion Barrels Of American Oil Locked Up in Alaska's Arctic, National Resources Committee 5/7/08. (KBC NOTE: farm fuel has doubled in the past couple years thanks to locking up American oil, further raising the price of food. People are starving.

PRESS RELEASE - "President Bush Is Absolutely Correct - The Democratic Anti-Energy Policies Will Continue To Worsen America's Gas & Energy Problems," Alaska U.S. Rep Don Young, 4/30/08  "If President Clinton hadn't vetoed this bill, ANWR production would now be providing our nation with more than one million barrels of oil each day. This Democratic opposition to ANWR oil production has kept 10.4 billion barrels of American oil locked up in the northern coast of Alaska Coastal Desert."

Looters Limit Out on BPA Salmon Dollars, James Buchal, posted to KBC 4/30/08

Salmon win in this dam legal battle, Capital Press editorial 4/25/08. "It's a fact that some environmental groups won't be happy until every dam is removed from every salmon stream and river in the West. Whether that's practical is, for them, not a concern. They simply don't seem to be willing to accept any alternatives. For them, it's an all-or-nothing proposition."

Energy 2008: the coming economic meltdown; The energy policy of the United States seems designed to purposely and artificially raise prices to the consumer by throttling supply, Intellectual Conservative, posted to KBC 4/17/08. "In California there is a concerted effort to destroy the Klamath dams. These dams provide cheap, renewable energy to 70,000 homes in Oregon and California. Replacing this energy with natural gas would release 473,000 tons of additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. This is roughly equivalent to the annual exhaust of 102,000 cars."

Company proposing (Klamath) geothermal power plant, H&N 3/26/08

Klamath water settlement power lawsuit resurrected, H&N 1/25/08

What If Columbia and Snake River Dams Were Helping Salmon? by James Buchal, EcoLogic Powerhouse, posted 11/15/07