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The Biden administration, leaders of four Columbia River Basin tribes and the governors of Oregon and Washington celebrated on Friday as they signed papers formally launching a $1 billion plan to help recover depleted salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest.

The plan, announced in December, stopped short of calling for the removal of four controversial dams on the Snake River, as some environmental groups and tribal leaders have urged. But officials said it would boost clean energy production and help offset hydropower, transportation and other benefits provided by the dams should Congress ever agree to breach them.

The plan brokered by the Biden administration pauses long-running litigation over federal dam operations and represents the most significant step yet toward eventually taking the four Snake River dams down. The plan will strengthen tribal clean energy projects and provide other benefits for tribes and other communities that depend on the Columbia Basin for agriculture, energy, recreation and transportation, the White House said.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Wait, the U.S. government did something involving indigenous people that isn't explicitly designed to fuck them over?

On the other hand, it's almost in time for Trump to get back into office and start the drilling at Bear's Ears he was desperate for last time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

so instead of removing the dams, we're strengthening clean energy(dams)?

this is good? am i stupid or something?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

This article has more specific information:

https://earthjustice.org/press/2023/us-government-sets-a-path-to-breach-the-four-lower-snake-river-dams

But yeah sounds like investing in new clean energy for multiple reasons, eventual removal of the dams is one of them

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I might be wrong here but to me it reads like they're investing in projects that will eventually enable the removal of the dams.

I don't know much about the issue, but playing devils advocate, it may be the case that removing the dam would hurt too many people in the short or intermediate term.

The again, if it just hurts business like data center owners, then it's a hollow victory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Can't really remove the dams until we have something to fill the void.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Y'know you could probably make a pretty decent redraw of the US by putting major watersheds together and then naming each after the significant indigenous food sources of those regions, PNW being Salmonlands, California being Foragelands, the heartland being Bisonlands, Turkeylands in the Northeast, so on and so forth.