Posted on 04/12/2024 8:38:37 AM PDT by george76
April 9 Letter from FERC to KRRC, ‘… Kiewit has aborted the Iron Gate Development drilling program in its entirety…’
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This is part of a series about the Klamath Dam Removal project in Siskiyou County.
The removal of dams along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, Northern California was sold as necessary to save salmon – specifically, “to restore habitat for endangered fish.”
The dams are part of the Klamath project, a series of seven dams built in the 1910’s and 1920’s in the Klamath Basin to bring electricity and agricultural water mitigation for Southern Oregon and Northern California, the Globe reported in 2020. However, in recent years, concerns over the dams’ effect on the wildlife and fishing industry have been raised, especially regarding claims of fish facing extinction because the dams.
According to an April 9th Letter from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to Klamath River Renewal Corporation, “… Kiewit has aborted the Iron Gate Development drilling program in its entirety…”
An old NASA phrase comes to mind… Houston, we have a problem!
In a letter dated April 9, 2024 from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (‘FERC’), Office of Energy Projects to Mark Bransom, CEO of the Klamath River Renewal Corporation (‘KRRC’), FERC stated the following in Item 6 of their Letter (attached PDF):
6. According to Mr. Sean Iiams’ March 27, 2024 email to Ms. Elisabeth Jacquot-Matt of this office, Kiewit has aborted the Iron Gate Development drilling program in its entirety negating the requirement for the DPP. Therefore, we will not provide comments on the DPP. We remind you that you may not proceed with exploratory drilling in any of the project embankments without prior authorization from this office
In the concluding paragraph of the April 9th Letter from FERC to KRRC, FERC said: “We cannot authorize the Iron Gate Dam removal at this time based on the above comments.”
Maybe the engineering report from Stephen Koshy about the dangers of decommissioning a “clay-core” dam might have finally come to light, and may have some folks worried! It would make sense that the insurance underwriters on this project are starting to get really nervous about this ill-fated project.
And I am certain that the states of California and Oregon need to be worried, since they are on the hook for all cost over-runs as well as liabilities on the Klamath Dam Removal project, according to an order by FERC.
Earthen dam engineer Stephen Koshy has written a Letter (attached PDF) to FERC and other agencies offering a grave warning. Maybe the insurance underwriters for project contractor Kiewit have new concerns?
(Please Note: It seems that Google and or some cooperating agencies have disabled and scrubbed links to the Koshy Letter that is attached to this article as a PDF)… WHY?
I read this the other day and the letter the engineer wrote should be used to Criminally Prosecute every last person involved in this deliberate destruction and they belong in PRISON for what they did.
I don't remember hearing about Salmon being an endangered species.
Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors declared a State of Emergency in regard to the Klamath Dam removal project affecting the Klamath River.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4228824/posts
Every time the far left turd rollers in the Dung Beetle Party comes up with a “good idea”, it goes to sh**. I guess the retards didn’t learn anything from closing down all the forestry companies and were shocked when what wasn’t destroyed by the bark beetles, ended up burning down. Liberals all need a good swift kick in the ass every time they open their big dumbass mouths with one of their “good ideas”.
I’m still convinced one of the underlying motives for the dam removal was to show the locals “who is the boss” after they made the powers that be back down roughly 20 years ago.
DDP == [Definite Decommissioning Plan].
DPP == [Degree Partnership Program]
Where’s the plan to take down o’shaughnessy?
“I’m still convinced one of the underlying motives for the dam removal was to show the locals “who is the boss” after they made the powers that be back down roughly 20 years ago.”
Don’t doubt that for an instant.
https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2020/01/beginning-of-this-america-first.html?m=1
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Let these people live like they’ve lived for decades in a place they love and treat like it is loved. More than YOU will ever dream of loving a piece of land. It’s THEIR road. They NEVER harmed their river. They’re not telling you how to live, or where..... Where you may travel and on what road. Some things never change, like evil power. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce said it best:
“PERHAPS YOU THINK THE CREATOR SENT YOU HERE TO DISPOSE OF US AS YOU SEE FIT. IF I THOUGHT YOU WERE SENT BY THE CREATOR I MIGHT BE INDUCED TO THINK YOU HAD A RIGHT TO DISPOSE OF ME. DO NO MISUNDERSTAND ME, BUT UNDERSTAND ME FULLY WITH REFERENCE TO MY AFFECTIONS FOR THE LAND. I NEVER SAID THE LAND WAS MINE TO DO WITH IT AS I CHOSE. THE ONE WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO DISPOSE OF IT IS THE ONE WHO HAS CREATED IT. I CLAIM A RIGHT TO LIVE ON MY OWN LAND, AND ACCORD YOU THE PRIVILEGE TO LIVE ON YOURS.”
Since when has that stopped the eco-nazis?
DPP==[DIRTY DEEDS by Poiticians]
Mother Nature will heal that river catastrophe with enough time; I’m guessing seven centuries. Wanna bet?
As a whole no, but for some river systems they are.
Thank you for posting, George 76.
We are fighting this ECOTERRORISM but still cannot get any media to cover it, even conservative media.
On venues like Facebook we are badly outnumbered and outfinanced by groups who won’t allow any opinion or testimony against dam removal.
We have a chance to save some wildlife and property if we can just make them stop DESTROYING the entire Irongate Dam scheduled for May 1. Residents are heartsick.
My old neighbors tell me the smell is sickening. The river is black.
One sent me a satellite photo of the Klamath River running into the ocean as it infects everything in it’s path.
https://truthsocial.com/@OffGridAmerican/posts/112256779384027255
You will see the coast line at the right with a spot that looks brownish as it empties into the Pacific ocean.
His comment:
Here is the sat photo of the mud going out to Sea. It has been reported that crabs and fishes are washing ashore at a higher than normal rate.
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I wonder when they start experiencing rolling brownouts, will they picket and protest the salmon?
Oh look, The Sierra Club destroyed another river. It may never recover.
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