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-BPNUCC for a decade cowed the Northwest Power Council from dealing substantively with 

 juvenile fish passage at main-stem Snake and Columbia River dams which is the linchpin of salmon 

 recovery. The Council finally was humiliated by its obvious failure and by public pressure into 

 adopting the only rational way of dealing with this pivotal problem - periodically drawing down 

 John Day Reservoir on the lower Columbia and the four lower Snake River reservoirs. BPNUCC 

 responded with renewed doomsday deceptions, and, like their ideological brethren the tobacco 

 lobbyists, resorted to the last refuge of environmental scoundrels by calling for "better science," i.e., 

 more years of study, i.e., delay, in hopeless pursuit of unobtainable absolute scientific certainty. 



--Bonneville has used its power over the purse strings to intimidate and cower the region's fishery 

 agencies and tribes; this documentable cormption of fisheries management is unparaUeled in 

 Northwest history. Bonneville even politically threatens its sister agency Bureau of Reclamation to 

 keep it in ideological lockstep. 



-Bonneville and its pork barrel constituents are using on the Congress and people of the Northwest 

 tactics like the CIA would use to disrupt the political process of some Third World nation. They've 

 spent tens of millions of taxpayer and ratepayer doUars on egregious disinformation and scare tactics 

 designed to dupe and intimidate political decision makers and the public, and worse, to pit citizens 

 against one another, all to create political gridlock over necessary changes in the federal 

 hydrosystem.' 



-Bonneville has squandered tens of millions of doUars: chasing make-believe salmon poachers with 

 the S.S. Cockamamie [Corliss]^; paying for ecologically medieval "predator [squawfish] control;" 

 torturing data until it confesses the results Bonneville wants; creating a costly, redundant fish and 

 wildlife bureaucracy; and cooking the books to inflate the costs of complying with congressional 

 mandates for salmon recovery' while pathetically blaming the weather and salmon recovery for 

 revenue shortfalls actually due to nuclear power plant gambling debts, below cost power sales. 



1 High-level BPA officials, notably including Deputy Administrator Jack Robertson, persistenUy regale the pubUc and 

 news media with doomsday predictions, e.g., shutting down the federal hydrosystem, draconian rate increases (you 

 bet!], the prospect of multiple coal-fiied and nuclear power plants, increases in poUution and global warming, and that 

 "...the Utile old ladies in the 1-5 conidor could be at risk of being without heat during the next Arctic chill event." The 

 fact that anyone falls for this brand of inteUectual flamlence proves the old adage that if you practice to dupe and 

 deceive, tell whoppers, don't mess around at the margin of truthfulness. 



2 This BonneviUe made-for-prime-time special night radar and high-speed pursuit craft-equipped showboat gives 

 hilarious expression to the old adage 'The law locks up both man and woman who steals the goose from off the 

 common. Yet leaves the greater felon loose, who steals the common from the goose." While BonneviUe spends 

 miUions to capture a single salmon poacher [or was it two?]. National Marine Fisheries Service gives BonnevUle and 

 the Corps a no-jeopardy niUng and a permit to kiU up to 92% of Usted juvenile Snake River salmon passing through 

 the system. Now that should breed real respect for law and order. 



