Rick Dowd: Resighini Rancheria challenges dam removal EIS

Friday, November 18, 2011  

"Members of the Resighini Rancheria strongly object to the approach taken by the federal government and the state of California for Klamath River dam removal. We are a small, federally recognized Indian Tribe with a reservation in Del Norte County upstream of Highway 101 on the Klamath River. We have been studying the Klamath Hydroelectric Project Facilities Removal Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for several months and want to inform the community about major problems we have discovered. Comments on the DEIS/DEIR are due Monday.

The DEIR/DEIS leads up to a secretary of Interior decision in March 2012 which, if affirmative, will not only carry out the Klamath Hydropower Settlement Agreement (KHSA) that removes dams but also the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement (KBRA).

The KBRA is very damaging to Indian rights and will not bring about restoration of the Klamath River."

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Rick Dowd: Klamath Dam removal linked to very bad restoration agreement (The Eureka Times-Standard 11/18)