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Friday, December 20, 2002
Tribal leaders argue for conservation funds
PORTLAND -- Indian tribes urged the Northwest Power Planning Council yesterday to preserve salmon-conservation projects threatened by a potential $1.2 billion Bonneville Power Administration budget shortfall.
Tribal leaders, including Donald Sampson of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, told the eight council members they stand behind the regional agency's conservation plans and would fight any Bonneville cuts.
"We're not complaining about the Northwest power council -- we're complaining about Bonneville," Sampson said at an emergency meeting called to address a BPA request to reduce the 2003 fish and wildlife budget from about $180 million to the 2001 level of $139 million.
The council was created by Congress in 1980 to balance wildlife conservation with regional energy needs. But it is Bonneville that carries out the conservation projects along the Columbia River and its string of 30 hydroelectric dams.
Sampson said the council should have final authority over spending on projects to save salmon runs, not the BPA.
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