A glance again at 2025 ought to change any minds nonetheless set in opposition to breaching the 4 Decrease Snake River Dams.
Orca mom Tahlequah ushered in 2025 by pushing one other lifeless calf by means of the Salish Sea. Our southern resident orcas stay on the point of extinction, as do the Snake River Chinook salmon on which they rely for meals. We can not sit by and watch this, after we know what would assist them essentially the most: breaching the 4 Decrease Snake River Dams.
In 2025, the hydro system panicked over the discount in water circulation attributable to local weather change. The 4% of the grid that the 4 Decrease Snake River Dams present is simply going to say no. The prices, in cash and wildlife deaths, exceed the advantages of those 4 dams.
In 2025, usually the slack water behind the 4 Decrease Snake River Dams reached temperatures dangerous or lethal to salmon. This development, attributable to local weather change, will solely worsen.
We’re at an inflection level. In 2026, breaching the 4 Decrease Snake River Dams should be accepted as an exigent necessity. We will save our salmon and our ecosystem, whereas making our electrical grid extra resilient within the face of local weather change.
Marjorie Millner, Vancouver
