Klamath

Farmers, Fishers, Tribes Say “Restore the Klamath!”

Thursday, February 1, 2007
From February 2007 World Rivers Review  A broad coalition has come together to call for removal of four dams and restoration of once-thriving salmon runs in the Klamath River. Sovereign tribes, farmers, fishers and conservationists have found common ground and are fighting for the health of the Klamath and for the economic, social and environmental prosperity of their communities. What was once the third most productive salmon run on the US west coast has dropped by over 90% since four dams were built, culminating in one of the worst runs ever in 2006, according to the Klamath Riverk

Leading Socially Responsible Investor Joins Advocates in Call to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
MONDAY, APRIL 27             Shelley Alpern (Trillium), (617) 292-8026 x. 248 Bama Athreya (ILRF) 202-347-4100 Patrick McCully (International Rivers) 510-848-1155 Leading Socially Responsible Investment Firm Joins Environmental, Human and Labor Rights Advocates in Urging Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders to Back Proposal for Reporting on Social and Environmental Risks Cites Recommendation from Leading Proxy Advisory Firm, Effects of Environmental, Labor, Human Rights Problems on Investments in PacifiCorp, Russell, PetroChina    Boston, MA (April 27, 2009) – Leading sociall

Berkshire Hathaway: Disclosure Needed of Environmental Risks and Other Sustainability Issues

International Rivers and the International Labor Rights Forum are urging shareholders in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Corp. to support a resolution requesting company management to produce a sustainability report. See the letter sent today to the leading shareholder advisory services by International Rivers and ILRF. The letter supports a resolution submitted by an individual shareholder, which calls upon Berkshire Hathaway to join the majority of the world’s biggest companies that already file sustainability reports on the economic, environmental, labor, human rights, social an

Berkshire Hathaway Sustainability Report Resolution

Monday, April 13, 2009
International Rivers, together with the International Labor Rights Forum, is urging shareholders in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Corp. to support a resolution requesting company management to produce a sustainability report.  The letter sent to the leading shareholder advisory services by International Rivers and ILRF can be downloaded below. The letter to shareholders supports a resolution submitted by an individual shareholder, which calls upon Berkshire Hathaway to join the majority of the world’s biggest companies that already file sustainability reports under the guideline

"The Klamath River Basin: Decline and Restoration," by Jacques Leslie

Klamath tribes and allies protest at hydro industry conference in Portland, Oregon. Aug. 2006.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Klamath tribes and allies protest at hydro industry conference in Portland, Oregon. Aug. 2006. Patrick McCully/International Rivers Essay written by California writer Jacques Leslie in 2007 for the forthcoming multimedia exhibit, "Water, Rivers and People." Compared to most other rivers, the Klamath is geographically backwards— it originates in marshes in high Oregon desert and descends through canyons near its Northern California mouth— and its length, a mere 254 miles, is barely a tenth of the Mississippi’s. Thanks to a constantly shifting sand bar at its Pacific Ocean

Interview with Craig Tucker, Klamath Campaign Coordinator, Karuk Tribe

Monday, December 15, 2008
December 2008 World Rivers Review: Special Focus on River Restoration 1.Please provide a list and very short summary of the project(s) you have worked on and their status. Removal of PacifiCorp's lower four Klamath River Dams. Currently a coalition of Tribes, conservation and fishing groups, farmers, and local governments support a basin wide restoration plan that is predicated on the removal of the lower four Klamath Dams. The groups continue to pressure PacifiCorp through lawsuits, grassroots actions, and media to work with affected communities to develop a dam removal plan. Ta

Klamath Dam Removal Takes Step Forward

Tribes have been pressing for the removal of the fish-killing dam for years.
Monday, December 15, 2008
December 2008 World Rivers Review: Special Focus on River Restoration In the Western water wars, it's the equivalent of the Berlin Wall coming down. That's how important the demolition of four dams on the salmon-starved Klamath River will be if a promising agreement is carried out. -San Francisco Chronicle, November 14, 2008 Today, there is light at the end of the tunnel in the long and contentious battle over the management of the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border, where dams and diversions have decimated once-healthy fisheries, left behind poisonous wa

Our Backyard: The Klamath River Needs Your Help

Typically we keep our focus on rivers outside the U.S., but on Septemeber 18 we'll see an important action happening here at home on the West Coast. The Klamath Justice Coalition is organizing the first annual Day of Action Against PacifiCorp: The Most Destructive Power Company in the West.  More on International Rivers work on the Klamath River

The Klamath: No Dam Deal Means No Damn Deal

Toxic algae blooms regularly poison PacifiCorp’s Klamath reservoirs. A lawsuit filed against PacificCorp last year states that the company has been aware of the problem for at least six years but has failed to correct it.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
March 2008 World Rivers Review Water wars in the arid western US are nothing new, but the rules of engagement have changed. The Klamath River basin on the California-Oregon border has been the stage for a decades-long epic battle between farmers, fisherman, government agencies, utilities, and tribes with treaty rights to dwindling salmon populations. More than 26 diverse groups have worked together to negotiate solutions to the most pressing problems the river faces, and are now close to a breakthrough that may breathe new life into the struggling river and its people. The stakehol

"Solving the Klamath Crises" Film at La Peña

Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Contacts Elizabeth Brink, International Rivers, +1 510-848-1155, ebrink@internationalrivers.org A New Lease on Life for the Klamath River: Bring the Hydro Dams Down!The story of the Klamath River is usually told as a zero-sum game that pits Native American tribes against farmers and farmers against environmentalists. But that storyline leaves out the four biggest culprits in the near demise of the Klamath River. Four hydroelectric dams-among them the aptly titled Iron Gate dam-owned by Warren Buffet’s PacifiCorp, have seriously degraded the river’s legendary salmon runs, encouraged toxic b
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