Hello my name is ______ and I live in _____. You are well aware of the damage the Snake River dams have caused salmon and orca in the Pacific Northwest. Since their inception salmon have declined steadily towards extinction despite billions of dollars spent on recovery efforts, that I helped pay for! Even with a new Environmental Impact Statement, the bias of the industry is paramount, ignoring available science and concluding that the same recovery efforts that have not worked in 20 years will be the plan going forward. These dams are not clean energy and I am here to say is I no longer want to support the Lower Snake River Dams when I pay my power bill. If they are contributing to problems like the collapse of our fisheries and resident orcas, then I should not be forced to pay for them. No one should be forced to pay for something given the clear and justified opposition to their management. The solution is to decommission them. I want no more of my money funding these dams. I urge you to draft a resolution that states our customer preference for power exclude the Lower Snake River dams.
