U.S. Rules Out Dam Removal to Aid Salmon

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - The Bush administration on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of removing federal dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers to protect 11 endangered species of salmon and steelhead, even as a last resort.

In an opinion issued by the fisheries division of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the government declared that the eight large dams on the lower stretch of the two rivers are an immutable part of the salmon's environment.
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The decision is a departure from the Clinton administration's approach to salmon protection. In 2000, it adopted a policy that allowed for dam removal, although only if all other measures had failed.

The Bush administration opinion, first released in draft form in September, provoked immediate outrage on the part of environmentalists and some tribal groups, who see it as another in a series of federal actions weakening protection for the salmon that are an integral part of the regional identity of the Northwest, and whose numbers have been sharply reduced over the decades by overfishing, dam construction, industrial pollution and suburban sprawl.

http://nytimes.com/2004/12/01/politics/01fish.html?hp&ex=1101877200&en=8a5c865f876349c6&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Erika]

1. Bush Proposes Soylent Green Factories

We don't need fish. We'll just do "natural" recycling. I can see the name on the factories "Halliburton Feeding the Hungry-All Natural Ingredients". I can't believe American voters were so dumb as to not see what Bush would do to our country.

[pinniped]

2. Why do we have wild salmon when they have that farm-raised crap?

It must be hard work swimming back to spawn at their birthplace thru dams, bear jaws, and other man-made shit. The shithead presidunce is just trying to save wild salmon all that hard work. When they're extinct they won't have to worry anymore.:silly:

Fuck that piece of human garbage presidunce and farm-raised salmon.

What color do you want your salmon?

[KlatooBNikto]

3. Salman Rush Die (nt).