Headlined: President Praises Dams in Northwest
From the washington post:Bush reinserted himself into a struggle over the future of salmon in the Columbia River basin, whose population has been severely depleted in the decades since the dams were built.
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Bush essentially renewed the stance he took as a presidential candidate in 2000, when he vowed to oppose any effort to breach the dams as a way of replenishing the salmon that have been vital to the economy and culture of the Pacific Northwest.
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The president arrived here three months after a federal judge in Oregon ordered the administration to revise its policies for trying to save salmon from extinction in the Columbia-Snake system, ruling that its current strategy for preserving a dozen endangered species was "improper."
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the premise that "we can have dams and we can have salmon . . . is wrong. We need to make a choice, and I think the better choice is salmon."
| Posted by dustin on August 23, 2003 with category tags of politics |
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