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Northwest Co-ops Face 7.1 Percent Power Rate Hike
Wholesale power rates for much of the Pacific Northwest are on the rise again, and electric cooperatives and other utilities are likely to feel the pinch. Bonneville Power Administration is planning a...
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Warm Water is Bad News for Endangered Fish
Fish species in the Pacific Northwest have to endure predatory attacks by sea lions, cormorants and Caspian terns. A spate of warm weather in the Northwest is causing problems for endangered salmon....
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Sea Lions Step Up Endangered Salmon Feast
Sea lions in the Pacific Northwest are extending their reach and their consumption of endangered fish species that ratepayers in the region spend hundreds of millions of dollars to protect. California...
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Sea Lion Return Bad for Fish, NW Ratepayers
Maybe wood panels will help. A sea lion eats a salmon in the Columbia River near Bonneville Dam, an ongoing concern for electric cooperatives. (AP Photo/Don Ryan) That’s the newest tactic wildlife...
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Feds OK Kill of Salmon-Eating Cormorants in NW
First, hungry sea lions were targeted for extinction. Now, it’s ravenous double-crested cormorants. Wildlife managers are set to kill 3,200 cormorants that threaten to eat endangered juvenile salmon in...
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Court Rejects Salmon Plan, Suggests Breaching Dams
Electric utilities are concerned that a federal judge has raised the possibility of breaching hydroelectric dams in the Northwest after rejecting a $1 billion government plan to save endangered fish as...
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Bill for NW Fish and Wildlife Hits $757 Million
The cost to Northwest power users of protecting fish and wildlife dropped last year, but just barely. A draft report says Bonneville Power Administration spent $757 million on fish and wildlife in...
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Sea Lions Continue Feast on Salmon, Ratepayers
The migration season that attracts sea lions to gorge on endangered fish in the Northwest is over, and this year’s numbers are not pretty for the pinnipeds, salmon or ratepayers. A California sea lion...
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Is Northwest Cormorant Kill Paying Off?
Maybe fish-gobbling cormorants aren’t quite to blame after all. Double-crested cormorants might not be affecting the survival of endangered fish as much as prevously thought, a study says. (Photo By:...
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Feds Extend Sea Lion Kill Order through 2021
A federal agency will allow three states in the Pacific Northwest an additional five years to trap and kill sea lions that gorge on endangered species of fish. Idaho, Washington and Oregon have...
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