Articles and Documents
Lower Snake River Dam Alternative Power Costs
June 2015 Prepared by Rocky Mountain Econometrics, Anthony Jones In early 2015 Idaho Rivers United asked Rocky Mountain Econometrics (RME) to bring its expertise to the subject and revisit the FREIS for the purpose of calculating the cost of replacing the energy produced by the LSRD in current (2015) dollars.
The Costs of Keeping the Four Lower Snake River Dams: A Reevaluation of the Lower Snake River Feasibility Report
July 2015 Prepared by Jim Waddell and Linwood Laughy In its 2002 Lower SnakeRiver Juvenile Salmon Migration Feasibility Report, the Walla Walla District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers vastly understated the costs of maintaining and operating four dams on the lower Snake River in eastern Washington State. The
Regional Economic Analysis of the Four Lower Snake River Dams
February 2016 By Johnny Mojica, Research Analyst, Earth Economics Ken Cousins, PhD, Ecological Economist, Earth Economics Tania Briceno, PhD, Ecological Economist, Earth Economics This report estimates the number of jobs that will be provided by outdoor recreation spending in the six southeast Washington counties along the LSR as a result
National Economic Analysis of the Four Lower Snake River Dams
February 2016 By Johnny Mojica, Research Analyst, Earth Economics Ken Cousins, PhD, Ecological Economist, Earth Economics Tania Briceno, PhD, Ecological Economist, Earth Economics This report presents a thorough analysis of the benefits and costs of the four Lower Snake River dams in both “keep dam” and “breach dam” scenarios. The
A Rebuttal to the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association’s “The Costs of Keeping the Four Lower Snake River Dams: A Reevaluation of the Lower Snake River Feasibility Report”
In the 1960’s and 1970’s the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed four dams on the lower Snake River without specific measures to allow juvenile salmon and steelhead to migrate downstream and out to the ocean. As a result, these dams killed millions and millions of juvenile salmon and steelhead
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