Energy Beyond Hydropower

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Energy Beyond Hydropower

• Atlas Chapter 13
• Figure 13.1 Energy Consumption
• No PNW sources of natural gas or crude oil
• Refining crude oil 4 north Puget Sound
  refineries historic use of Canadian crude
  imported crude (Alaska, Far East)
• Changing supply situation, Alaskan Oil

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Prudoe Bay
Trans- Alaska Pipeline
West coast oil movements, Canadian
production, Alberta, McKenzie River Delta Natural
gas from North Slope
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Other Energy Sources

• Wind
• Solar
• Natural Gas generators
• Current Northwest Power Conservation
• Council Assessment

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A wind-farm like being built very rapidly in the
Northwest, but this picture was taken near
Jaisilimar India.. could be Vantage
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Alaska Natural Gas CurrentTransCanadaPipeline
Proposal
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Power Fish Current Initiatives

• Source Federal Caucus on www
• Biological Assessment (COE, BPA, Brec)
• COE studies - Lower Snake Salmon Migration
  John Day Drawdown
• Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem
• Multi-Species Framework
• 2003 The collision of values - producing
  power and earning and implementing fish
  programs

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The Biological Assessment -Hydro

• A vision by the action agencies - e.g. those
  engaged in hydropower
• Required under ESA must report to FWS NMFS
• BA requires (short-run) (1) flow
  augmentation, (2) reservoir operation to protect
  Kootenai River while sturgeon minimize river
  fluctuations, (3) improved spill measures, (4)
  Fish transportation, (5) predator control
• Long run (1) Breaching studies, (2) Water
  quality studies, (3) Passage Improvements
• BA Construct for Achieving Survival Improvements
  - delayed transport mortality multiple bypass
  effects

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Lower Snake River Juvenile Salmon Migration
Feasibility Study

• Studies ways to improve migration conditions.
  Alternatives are
• (1) No action
• (2) Maximum transport of juvenile fish
• (3) Same as (2) but surface bypass for Lower
  Granite Dam, minimizing stress on fish
• (4) Breaching 4 dams, recreating 140 miles of
  free-flowing river.

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Lower Snake Study, cont.

• Effects on salmon and steelhead
• Reliance on NMFS studies - PATH (Plan for
  Analyzing and Testing Hypotheses), and CRI
  (Critical Risk Initiative)
• Economic and Social Studies
• Tribal Circumstances and Perspective
• Engineering Analysis of Dam Breaching

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John Day Dam Drawdown Study

• To study (in phase I) drawing down the first dam
  below the Snake-Columbia
• Options include full draw-down and partial
• COE report

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Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management
Project

• Undertaken due to Presidential directive
• DEIS out, but due to controversies,
  Supplemental DEIS now being prepared
• Covers 140 million acres of the PNW, 2/3 of our
  land area, of which 64 million acres are managed
  by USFS BLM
• Key objective- to determine the role of federal
  lands in habitat recovery efforts

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Alternatives in ICBEMP

• S1 No action
• S2 A short - run strategy to protect aquatic
  and terrestrial habitats
• S3 A long- run strategy with higher levels of
  restoration, and flexibility, remedies to help
  impacted communities, and commitment to
  maintaining predictable and sustainable products
  and services from forests and rangelands.

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The Multi-Species Framework Project

• An NWPPC project
• Goal to link wildlife restoration policy to a
  scientific foundation.
• Seven alternatives for the future
• See NWPPC website for details
• ? Integration of all these efforts?
• ? Interaction of the 3 key branches of our
  government (judicial, legislative, executive), at
  both the federal and state levels.????

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2010 Fish versus Power

• Implementing the Federal Caucus
  Comprehensive Columbia-Snake River Salmon
  Plan (Dec. 2000)
• - habitat improvements away from dams
• - changes in hatchery systems
• - no breaching in the short-run of Snake R.
  dams
• Key is flow management - e.g. reducing power
  generation to provide water for fish. Revenue
  implications for BPA.

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Fish versus Power 2010, cont.

• Two Biological Opinions undergird this plan,
  by NMFS, and USFWS now remanded and replaced
  by new Biological Opinion
• NMFS - (1) sets goals to improve salmon survival
  in locations away from dams, and for fish
  passage, and (2) establishes performance
  standards for federal agencies. Built-in review
  timetables.
• The All-H Paper (Basin-Wide Salmon
  Recovery Strategy) - habitat, hatcheries,
  harvest, hydropower.
• USFWS - addresses bull trout white sturgeon

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From the 2008 FCRPS Biological Opinion
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• From Executive
• Summary of 2008
• Biological Opinion
• Of NOAA Fisheries,
• Adopted by the
• Sovereign parties in
• Expected to be
• In place for at least
• 10 years.