Three lobbyists in suits strode down the marbled halls of the Senate office building one day last fall. Their mission: to convince the Northwest’s congressional delegation to fight a bill requested by the Bonneville Power Administration. The bill would exempt three runs of imperiled Snake River salmon from federal protection. The men turned into a […]
Hydropower
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
BPA: Making amends for a destructive past
Note: this article appears in the print edition as a sidebar to another news article, “Changing times force agency to swim upstream.” The Bonneville Power Administration was born out of the Depression. Talk of taming the wild Columbia River and its tributaries began in the 1920s, but Congress and President Franklin Roosevelt didn’t authorize the […]
Posted inFebruary 20, 1995: No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry
Bare land at Bear Lake
People who live near drought-plagued Bear Lake, along the Idaho-Utah border, don’t want to see water levels drop another four feet. Yet dredging by Utah Power & Light, which aims to dig a 2,000-foot channel to a pumping station at the north end of the lake, would do just that. The company needs the water […]
Posted inJune 13, 1994: A doomed species?
Five star visitor complex
The Bureau of Reclamation is now building the nation’s first boondoggle tourist stop. Thanks to cost overruns and management neglect, the Hoover Dam visitor center in southern Nevada will cost $119 million instead of an estimated $32 million. Scheduled to be finished in 1995, the 44,000-square-foot center, which sits on the side of a cliff, […]
Posted inMay 31, 1993: Salmon advocates say: the quiet slaughter continues
Down but not out
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Down but not out.
Posted inMay 31, 1993: Salmon advocates say: the quiet slaughter continues
Salt caves not licked yet
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Salt caves not licked yet.
Posted inMay 31, 1993: Salmon advocates say: the quiet slaughter continues
How BPA is ruining the Northwest
The writer challenges the Bonneville Power Administration’s “more’ and “bigger” goals. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline How BPA is ruining the Northwest.