What is the Klamath “settlement” or Klamath Restoration Agreement?
The “settlement negotiations,” as they’re commonly called, were triggered by the expiration of PacifiCorp’s operating licenses for its Klamath dams and the subsequent calls for their removal by stakeholders throughout the Klamath basin. For the last three years, nearly 30 groups participated in a series of facilitated meetings in an attempt to reach an agreement on whether or not the dams should be relicensed. In most cases, settlement processes, rather than Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decisions, are the means by which dams are actually removed in the United States. These stakeholder groups represented almost everyone with a stake in the health of the Klamath River, including all four Native Tribes, many government and state agencies, nonprofit conservation groups, and watershed councils. The High Country News feature Peace on the Klamath describes this process from the vantage point of the Yurok Tribe and the Klamath Water Users Association. The Klamath Riverkeeper website fe
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