Conflict of interest
It appears there is a conflict of interest in the Biden administration about the lower Snake River dams.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says breach to save the salmon.
The Department of Energy wants to invest in green energy and assist with building a battery factory in Moses Lake because of the plentiful electricity produced by the dams.
OK. So who wins now?
RODGER K. RAWSON, of Clarkston
Breaching dams won’t work
With no known proof of what will happen, environmentalists want to take out the lower Snake River dams because they think it will bring back fish numbers.
ack fish numbers. They should use some common sense and look at the following:
- On Alaska’s rivers with no dams, where the fishing is considered the best in the world, there are low fish numbers.
- On Canada’s rivers with no dams, there is the same problem — low fish numbers.
Dams are not the problem. The ocean where the fish enter from all of these rivers is the problem.
Until pollution and commercial over-fishing (most by other countries) is fixed, there will be low fish numbers.
Dams are not the problem. Common sense tells me these environmentalists are not looking at the real problem. Dams help us in too many ways. They should not be taken out.
They say wind and solar will work, again with no proof. So far, wind and solar only cost us a lot of money with very, very little return.
I foresee high maintenance costs with bird and bats being killed by wind towers.
ABEL WORKMAN, of Weippe
