摘要: |
With its report from the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) last September representing the administration's rationale, the Biden administration formally took the side of those salmon advocates who want to tear down four dams on the river-Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Granite-although it had been signaling its intent for months. Biden claimed in March that taking down the dams would bring "healthy and abundant salmon runs back to the [Columbia] River system." The report itself argues, "The increasing role of deteriorating ocean or freshwater conditions from climate change on the health of salmon and steelhead stocks does not diminish the importance or necessity of taking meaningful actions in areas society has more direct influence over." So it admits there are factors impinging on salmo-nid populations that have nothing to do with the four dams. |