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June 18, 2009 in City, Idaho
Avista issued new hydropower license
Becky Kramer
The Spokesman-Review
Avista Corp. has received a new 50-year license for five hydropower dams on the Spokane River.
The new license was issued today by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. It sets out conditions for Avista’s operation of the dams over the next half century, including protections for water quality, flow measures to help native rainbow trout and improvements to recreational facilities along the river.
More than 200 stakeholder groups took part in the relicensing effort.
The five dams are: Post Falls, Upper Falls, Monroe Street, Nine Mile and Long Lake. They produce about 10 percent of Avista’s electrical generation.
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George_Sands on June 18 at 7:16 p.m.
Sorta like giving endangered species designation to your tape worm.
D Statler on March 03 at 7:47 a.m.
The blood sucking leaches are firmly attatched ! LOL I asked the CEO of AVISTA to donate half his executive compensation to installing fish ladders in the dams mentioned.I mentioned that we could go fishing together for Salmon right outside his corporate headquarters on his lunch break.Seems he thought I was being fishy.Not alot of movement to do the right things for the Spokane River.Just alot of talk and smoke shows. The agency that issued the license are who we really need to dislodge from power. AVISTA will just keep on sucking the life out of us and the Spokane River till they get reigned in by GOVERNMENT !