Friday Top of the Scroll: Tribes celebrate as biggest dam removal project in history is about to start in California
The biggest dam-removal project in history moved one step closer to reality Thursday after the federal government cleared a key regulatory hurdle that would allow demolition to begin on four hydroelectric dams along California’s border with Oregon. The decision Thursday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission allows PacifiCorp, a utility company controlled by financier Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, to surrender the dams’ license to a nonprofit organization backed by California and Oregon. Demolition on the Klamath River dams — three in California and one in Oregon — could begin as quickly as a few months from now.
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- Oregon Public Broadcasting: The world’s largest dam removal will touch many lives in the Klamath River Basin
- Eureka Times-Standard: It’s official – FERC approves removal of Klamath dams
- American Rivers: Five key lessons as world’s biggest dam removal project will soon begin on the Klamath River
- North Coast Journal: Feds OK Klamath Dam Removal
- Reuters: To save salmon, U.S. approves largest dam removal in history