Klamath River News: Support Dam Removal, Clean Water Restoration Act

Klamath River News - September 26, 2007

* CLEAN WATER RESTORATION ACT WOULD PROTECT ALL WATERS
* TRINITY RIVER STRUGGLES FOR PROMISED RESTORATION FUNDING
* SISKIYOU COUNTY SUPERVISORS TAKE DAM SUPPORT TO GOVERNOR

Action Alerts:
* Clean Water Restoration Act - National Day of Action - Call your Rep. TODAY!
* Support California Fishermen - sign petition to Undam the Klamath
* Show Schwartzenegger local support for dam removal

PROTECT ALL WATERS
http://www.nj.com/opinion/times/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1190174760296590.xml&coll=5
New Jersey Times - 9/19/07
In 1977, lawmakers and their constituencies agreed that the time had come to save the waters of the United States, and so came about the Clean Water Act. The time has come to once again protect our most precious natural resource and update the act, which has suffered debilitating blows in recent years...

TRINITY RIVER DESERVES MONEY TO BACK PROMISES
http://www.redding.com/news/2007/sep/22/trinity-river/
Redding Record Searchlight - 9/22/07
What's a promise without the follow-through? A lie.
That's the only way to describe those long-ago vows that Trinity River diversions wouldn't hurt the river's fisheries. Now that decades of agitation and litigation have restored a measure of the river's flows, Indian tribes along the river fear that promises of a full restoration will similarly be forgotten...

HOOPA VALLEY TRIBE CHAIRMAN TESTIFIES IN CONGRESS IN SUPPORT OF TRINITY RIVER FUNDING
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/21/18449003.php
Bay Area Independent Media - 9/21/07

TRINITY RIVER RESTORATION SUPPORTERS GO BEFORE CONGRESS
http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=28560
Eureka Reporter - 9/19/07

DEAR GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER
http://klamathbasincrisis.org/Poweranddamstoc/nodams/letters/sisktoSchwarzenegr091807.htm
KlamathBasinCrisis - 9/18/07
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,
As you are aware, a number of dams owned by PacifiCorp in Siskiyou County are in the relicensing process and the subject of dam removal discussions. The County of Siskiyou and its constituents stand to be significantly impacted if any of the dams slated for relicensing are to be removed. The County of Siskiyou is supportive of fish and river health but has been and continues to be in opposition to dam removal...



ACTION ALERTS:

September 26th is National Clean Water Phone Congress Day!
The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to act this fall on what could be the most important clean water legislation in 35 years: The Clean Water Restoration Act (H.R. 2421). This bipartisian bill would reinstate the original language of the Clean Water Act, neutralizing Bush Administration rollbacks that gutted Clean Water legislation in 2001. Learn more from the Clean Water Network http://www.cleanwaternetwork.org//issues/scope/newsandinfo/DisplayContent.cfm?ContentID=558&ContentTypeID=4PageFormat=DisplayContent or the Sierra Club legislative tracker http://www.sierraclub.org/legislativetracker/109S912.asp websites.
Participate in this National Day of Action, and make a quick call to your Representative in Congress. The message is simple: Please support the Clean Water Restoration Act (H.R. 2421) NOW. The Clean Water Restoration Act will provide environmental protection for ALL of our nation's waters.
Call Greg Walden at (202) 225-6730
Call Mike Thompson at (202) 225-3311
Call Wally Herger at (202) 225-3076
If you do not know who your Representative is, find out at http://www.house.gov/writerep/. You can also call the Wash DC switchboard at 202-224-3121and ask to for your Representative's office. You can also send a quick form email from the National Wildlife Federation:
http://www.online.nwf.org/siteAdvocacypagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=255&s_src=ActionHQ

California Fishermen request your help - sign petition!
http://www.water4fish.org/petition-summary/
Sign on to a petition from California Fishermen supporting dam removal on the Klamath and water protection in the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta.

Remind Arnold that local residents support dam removal!
Help counter the misleading information from Siskiyou County Supervisors
If you live in Siskiyou County, or near the Klamath River, contact the Governor and tell him you support removal of the Klamath Dams. Tell him dam removal will be a safe, cost-effective, and economically invigorating process for Siskiyou County.
Contact him by going to: http://gov.ca.gov/interact
or call: Phone: 916-445-2841 Fax: 916-445-4633

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