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Mike Simpson is making a lot of friends on the political left. He has a new best friend in Earl Blumenauer. Blumenauer is a longtime member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Western Oregon. Born in Portland, he was raised on granola mixed with his mother’s milk. He’s wholly on board with Simpson’s sinister plot to destroy four dams on the lower Snake River. The argument being it’ll restore salmon runs. It ignores the large fishing fleets scooping up salmon in the Pacific Ocean!
This is where Blumenauer and his allies will break with Simpson. Their focus is solar and wind.
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Before President Barack Obama designated Bears Ears National Monument in December 2016, San Juan’s Republican-controlled County Commission was already devising a strategy to get it rescinded.
Phil Lyman, then a commissioner and now a state legislator, had signed a representation agreement between the county and the Louisiana-based Davillier Law Group two months earlier in a closed-door meeting. And as soon as President Donald Trump took his oath of office in early 2017, the attorneys and commissioners went on the offensive.
Maybe Mike Simpson plans to term limit himself. The United States Representative from Eastern and Southern Idaho still isn’t backing away from interest in removing dams from the lower Snake River. The facilities are all in neighboring Oregon but impact would reverberate along the entire basin. It could reduce the volume of water used for irrigation in Idaho. It would also bring about higher prices for electricity.
Simpson explains he believes removal of dams would spur the return of native salmon.
Simpson explains he believes removal of dams would spur the return of native salmon.
Liberal environmentalists like his idea but it’s not going over well with his fellow Republicans and a large portion of his constituency. It was the focus of a telephone town hall meeting the Representative hosted with the Idaho Republican Party. One of my Boise counterparts fielded several calls from participants in the session and they aren’t pleased.