{"id":254634,"date":"2010-02-01T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010931513_salmonruncontroversy.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-02-01T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:30:17","slug":"salmon-run-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/254634","title":{"rendered":"Salmon run controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Follow the money<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a letter published on Jan. 28 [\u201cEnvironmental issues: Salmon runs,\u201d Northwest Voices], Terry Flores, executive director of Northwest RiverPartners, Portland, claims that the premise in \u201cGetting past the dams\u201d is wrong. The premise of the original editorial is that the court-ordered spill program on the middle and upper Columbia and Snake River dams has a measurable impact on salmon survival. In her letter, Flores distorts the opinion piece.<\/p>\n<p>What made me respond is the source of this letter. In the case of Northwest RiverPartners, you need to follow the money. This organization\u2019s board members work for the following groups: Avista Utilities, McMinnville Water and Light, Industrial Customers of Northwest Utilities, Inland Power, PNGC Power and Flathead Electric Cooperative [among others].<\/p>\n<p>These are the \u201cRiverPartners.\u201d They are mostly utility companies who continue to stonewall scientific evidence that the dams on the middle and upper Columbia and Snake rivers have a large impact on salmon survival. Fish scientists and courts battles have consistently held that this impact is quite real.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s OK to believe that energy generation and utility company profits are more important than salmon survival. It\u2019s not OK to distort the science that clearly shows we have to make choices between these competing factors. Personally, I\u2019ll vote for the salmon.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Ed Morrison, North Bend<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the money In a letter published on Jan. 28 [\u201cEnvironmental issues: Salmon runs,\u201d Northwest Voices], Terry Flores, executive director of Northwest RiverPartners, Portland, claims that the premise in \u201cGetting past the dams\u201d is wrong. The premise of the original editorial is that the court-ordered spill program on the middle and upper Columbia and Snake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}