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Fish Die-Off Page
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Testimony of Dr. William
Lewis before the U.S. House of Representatives, House
Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water and
Power, July 31, 2007. Dr. Lewis was Chair
of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Endangered
and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin (“Klamath
Committee”) between 2002 and 2004.
House Hearing Fails To
Link Klamath Fish Kill To VP Cheney, FishLetter 8/17/07
Science clears Cheney
in Klamath salmon die-off, by
Jerry Reynolds, Indian Country
Today, August 3, 2007
Fur should fly, Colorado
Gazette, posted to KBC 8/7/07. "The
inquisitors were hoping for a smoking gun linking Vice
President Dick Cheney to the die-off of salmon in Oregon’s
Klamath River, stemming from a water dispute in 2001, which
was the focus of a recent expose (read: hit piece) by The
Washington Post. But no damning revelations were produced by
the dogs and ponies paraded before the committee."
"Crisis of Confidence" Hearing
Highlights,
by Dan Keppen, Family Farm
Alliance Executive Director 8/3/07
Investigators not told about Cheney contact, official says,
Capital Press 7/31/07
Comment by retired government scientist who wants to remain
anonymous, "I do not understand why someone is not standing
up and pointing out that Mike Kelly's (whistleblower)
conclusions were probably wrong in the first place.
There have been 3-4 years, in the Klamath River, where water
conditions were worse than those that occurred in 2002 when the
fish were KILLED! During these other years there was not a fish
die-off. But, of course, those that are willing to look at the
circumstantial evidence are aware that the salmonids were indeed
killed (murdered) by meth lab idiots.
Furthermore, Dave Vogel clearly established that the water upstream
at Iron Gate was warm and would not help the salmon if sent
downstream to them."
Klamath River hearing won’t help settlement group’s efforts,
H&N, Congressman Greg Walden, posted 7/30/07
Water hearing stirs up debate, H&N, posted to KBC 7/30/07
What caused salmon deaths, by Barry Clausen, rerun
in the Pioneer Press July 2007. (Note from author:
"I
spent three weeks on this story.
The Washington Post story on this issue and their
criticism of VP Cheney is so inaccurate IT IS
PATHETIC.")
This and related articles are on our
Fish Die-off page.
Die-off continues to be controversial, Pioneer
Press, posted to KBC 7/20/07
Stop the Myth-Making: Now’s the Time to Focus on the
Positive, by
Dan Keppen, Executive Director Family Farm Alliance,
posted to KBC July 19, 2007, for Siskiyou Daily News.
"Disease,
warm water, and crowded conditions were contributing
factors to the (2002 fish) die-off...A final report
released by the National Research Council (NRC) also
failed to find a link between the die-off and Project
operations. These slightly important facts are
consistently and conveniently ignored by outside
anti-farming organizations and their messengers in large
urban newspapers."
Klamath River hearing won’t help settlement group’s efforts,
H&N, posted 7/30/07
Water hearing stirs up debate, H&N, posted to KBC 7/30/07
Klamath-Cheney tale is all fiction, Register Guard
7/20/07, By Dan Keppen, Family Farm Alliance, and Todd
Kelstrem, Klamath Falls Mayor.
Blaming Cheney for die-off is far-fetched, H&N
Letter, 7/12/07. "But what was Cheney’s “secretive meddling?” At the
request of Republican Congressman Bob Smith, Cheney
contacted someone in the Interior Department and asked
them to get a second opinion from the National Academy
of Sciences. Holy Moley!! How could he get away with
that? And even worse, the NAS found no scientific
foundation for cutting off the water. How dared they
disagree with government biologists, environmentalists
and commercial fishermen?"
Washington
Post article plows partisan ground,
by Greg Addington, Klamath Water Users Executive
Director 7/15/05 Herald and News.
"...it
claims that Mr. Cheney gave personal attention in early
2001 to Klamath Basin water policy issues. On the other
hand, it fails to report that just a few months later,
this same administration announced there would be no
water for irrigators in the Bureau of Reclamation’s
Klamath Project – the first time that this water supply
had been shut off in the Project’s 100-year history."
Klamath water pact said at risk, Sacramento Bee
7/14/07
(KBC Note: Kandra says there is no finger pointing in settlement
talks; Hoopas seem to claim otherwise:
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Solving the Klamath River fisheries issues requires true
and wise leadership by Steve Kandra, Klamath Water
User, "The farmers, tribes and fishermen are
solving problems, not pointing fingers."
And
Fish and Farmers Both Need Water, by Hoopa Tribal
Chairman Clifford Marshall,
"fish in the Trinity
and Klamath rivers are still fighting for their lives as
the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation starves the Trinity River
for restoration funding and aged dams block natural
propagation on the Klamath River," Washington Post,
posted to KBC 7/10/07.
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