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FYI: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/3/724992/-MSM-wakes-up-to-Chevrons-Amazon-disaster:-on-60-Minutes-tonight

There's still time for redemption. Nothing personal; I'm just educating people on the idea that all politics is local.

posted 4 years, 1 month ago
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Again, and probably voiced by others, I would like to suggest a show about the Chevron oil spill trial in Ecuador. It would might be a fitting complement to OPB's series on South American countries currently airing. 

John Denton

aka bob zimway

posted 4 years, 2 months ago
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Correction: the Oregonian supported Smith, I mean.

posted 4 years, 7 months ago
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I'm one who did get sucked into the idea that the authors of the study concluded that dams were irrelevant to fish health, if what you wrote is true. I didn't hear the entire interview, and so I missed any disclaimers they may have stated.

So then I shot off the post below, which now seems a wee bit paranoic. Still, the whole wave of interest in the regional media seems fixated on the dam aspect, perhaps hoping we won't have to do anything. But then, the Oregonian supported McCain, so no surprise.

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The more you think about this study, the more it looks like the work of some geeks who tried out a cool device that they were able to plant in a fish, who then set out to measure fish survival in complex systems with all kinds of effects, but selected only one variable of the matrix--dams-- then drew conclusions that maybe dams aren't so bad, and got a lot of press.

This is the shoddiest piece of offal I've ever seen that's being passed off as science in this debate.

Irresponsible. But then, they'll keep their funding--the conclusions support the vested classes.

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When I called in to ask Jeff's comment on salmon runs into the Upper Klamath Basin, I had hoped that he would point --- with an eye to the future--to the economic advantages of sport fishing to communites like Klamath Falls. I understand his stance for farm families and his conciliatory comments on working together to find a solution to the chronic water crisis.

So he gave a pre-demolition answer to my post-demolition question. Fair enough, since I didn't make clear the big IF.

The fate of the dams likely rests on the findings of the CA Water Board now receiving comments on permits, the main issue involve being an alarming rise in toxic parasites breeding in warm dammed waters.

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Dams clearly make a difference! The obvious case in point is the plague of toxic parasites that breed in warm water behind the Klamath River dams. Not only fish but pets and people are being made ill.

A recent study that touts that the Frasier River in Canana has no worse salmon runs than the Columbia's is a very limited sample river, plus the lice that develop in fish farms along the Fraser are weakening wild salmon.

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