Salmon: Environmentally delicious

The Save Our Wild Salmon coalition appreciates the opportunity to comment on the proposed changes to the NWPPC's Columbia River Fish and Wildlife Program. We take the Council's charge to put energy and fish and wildlife benefits on equal footing seriously, and we hope that this opportunity is taken to implement that duty.

The current energy situation in the Northwest has caused endangered salmon to bear the brunt of the pain caused by our region's lack of planning. We incorporate here, by reference, the comments submitted by the NW Energy Coalition. These comments specifically incorporate ways that the Bonneville Power Administration and the NWPPC can take the burden of producing power off the backs of salmon. Any alternative proposals in those comments that would increase fossil-fuel energy use, and therefore, CO2 emissions, would need to mitigate for those CO2 emissions. Both the drought and this region's overcompensation for its potential effects are endangering salmon.

The region has many ways of producing power, but the salmon have only one river.

Salmon: Environmentally delicious

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