Columbia River Keeper: Call To Action - Columbia River Salmon

ACTION ALERT:URGENT -- CALL TO ACTION!Use your voice to protect Columbia River Salmon!

As many of you know, for the past several months the Water Resources Department (WRD) has been considering an application from NorthernStar/Bradwood Landing to take 15 Billion Gallons of water from the Columbia River in it's first year.

The WRD will also be responsible for issuing permits for the continual use of 12 Billion gallons of water during every year of Bradwood LNG operation. As a part of that application the Oregon Department of Fish &Wildlife must make a determination on the impact of that water right to fish in the affected area of the river.

Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW) is poised and ready to claim that NorthernStar's removal of billions of gallons of water will not have a detrimental impact to fish. They are making this evaluation based on inadequate information about the method by which that water will be screened in an area that is crucial habitat for salmon.

The information provided to ODFW is the same information currently being challenged by the State of Oregon, State of Washington, Columbia Riverkeeper and Columbia Inter-Tribal Fish Commission as being incomplete in the EIS for Bradwood Landing.

The possibility of this move by the ODFW is completely out of sync with Governor Kulongoski and the State of Oregon that is petitioning for a rehearing by FERC based on the fact that the analysis done for this project is incomplete.

Please read the attached action alert and sample email and contact the ODFW and Michael Carrier today! They could make this decision at any time within the next couple of weeks and they need to hear from you!Contact information for key decision makers is included here -- for a sample email and additional information please see the attached document titled "Urgent_ODFW_Alert(2)".
Contact:

Michael Carrier, Governor's Natural Resources Director:
michael.carrier@state.or.us, (503) 986-6525

Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife:
Roy Elicker, Director, roy.elicker@state.or.us, (503)947-6044
Chris Kern, Assistant Fisheries Manager, j.chris.ken@state.or.us, (971)673-6031
Jill Zarnowitz, Water Policy Coordinator, jill.zarnowitz@state.or.us, (503)947-6092