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Are Snake River Dams At Risk Again?
| 题名： | Are Snake River Dams At Risk Again? |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | DAVID MURRAY |
| 摘要： | The wars over the four dams on the lower Snake River, just before it joins the Columbia River - Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Granite - are heating up again. Salmon advocates have long sought to have them decommissioned and taken down to protect spawning fish populations, especially salmon and steelhead trout, which have steadily declined since the mid-1950s. The fight has pitted salmon advocates against farmers, barge shippers and businesses and families enjoying the benefits of clean, cheap hydropower. The Biden administration has taken the side of the dam-busters. About 10 percent of our nation's wheat exports and 60 percent of the Pacific Northwest's move down the Columbia-Snake River system. This past March, a contractor for the Walla Walla Engineer District completed the first channel dredging of the confluence between the Snake and Columbia rivers since 2015, taking the channel down to its authorized depth of 14 feet. According to a 2020 study by FCS Group cited by the Wall Street Journal, this will translate into at least 201 additional freight-train loads and more than 23 million ton-miles of new trucking annually-at a huge carbon-emission cost. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 137 |
| 期： | 13 |
| 页码： | 3,8 |
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