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Obama officials learning salmon issues
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | No comments posted.
GRANTS PASS (AP) - Two top members of President Obama's environmental team are in the Northwest this week, listening but pointedly not speaking about the tense conflict between salmon and hydroelectric dams in the Columbia Basin.
NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco and White House Council on Environmental Quality chairwoman Nancy Sutley attended closed-doors sessions in Portland on Tuesday with scientists, government officials and Indian tribes, and were scheduled today to tour one of the lower Snake River dams in Eastern Washington that conservationists and some Indian tribes want removed to restore endangered salmon.
"The purpose of this trip here is to listen and learn," Lubchenco spokesman Justin Kenney said.
Afterward, Sutley issued a written statement saying the session helped them better understand the science behind the Bush administration's 2008 plan for balancing salmon against dams.
NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco and White House Council on Environmental Quality chairwoman Nancy Sutley attended closed-doors sessions in Portland on Tuesday with scientists, government officials and Indian tribes, and were scheduled today to tour one of the lower Snake River dams in Eastern Washington that conservationists and some Indian tribes want removed to restore endangered salmon.
"The purpose of this trip here is to listen and learn," Lubchenco spokesman Justin Kenney said.
Afterward, Sutley issued a written statement saying the session helped them better understand the science behind the Bush administration's 2008 plan for balancing salmon against dams.
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