By Scott Unger • Of the News-Register • 

Salmon protections could raise local power rates

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Don Dix

Spill water over the dams to save salmon - while raising power rates. Nowhere in the article was there a mention of the real salmon issue - sea lions.

The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife estimates that sea lions eat up to 44% of the Columbia River spring Chinook run and 25% of the Willamette winter steelhead run each year.

Nearly half of the Columbia springers are eaten by sea lions yearly (they also eat salmon smolts), and the solution is to spill more water over the dams? When did intelligence go on vacation, and for how long?

Doze a sea lion, save hundreds of salmon. It is that simple!

Bigfootlives

Well said, Don.

Everyone needs to keep in mind that the goal of these environmental nazis is to tear out the Bonneville Dam altogether. The NR endorsed Tina Kotek is MIA, she's too busy proclaiming her virtue over President Trump while Oregon burns.

But Don's comment paints the bigger picture and highlights the Democrats' main party platform, right out of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: the end justifies the means. Gaslighting and punishing rate payers is perfectly legit democrat public policy, while pushing local 'politicians' to make insane comments about installing solar panels.

Madam Mayor, where is the financial audit you promised? I'm sure there's more than $12k hidden there.

leo

Eat sea lions instead of salmon!

mikes

There is a permit to take out the See Lions. Of course you know that. Don , Foot, go kill a few. The estimate now is a fantastic $38,000 per sea lion taken out. Some nice cash. I may see I can find a boat and go take out a few. I guest they are not easy as fish in a barrel. Foot I know how love labels but I'm not a democrat or a republican. I care less about sea lions or salmon. Well I like a good slab of salmon.

Bigfootlives

Mikes. You live in a state that has been absolutely destroyed by liberal democrat policies, and this piece details just one of them. This is not an unintended consequence, it’s the plan. You don’t have to be a Republican or a democrat to feel the pain of the 1000 cuts.

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