Seattle City Light, Eight Hundred Ton Gorilla With a Checkbook
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- February 8, 2023
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County Commissioner Peter Browning Deserves Re-Election0
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- September 27, 2024
As residents of Eastern Skagit County, we are very concerned about the extensive influence that Seattle has over our lives and lands. Seattle’s electric utility department, known as Seattle City Light, has long sought to avoid fish passage at its Skagit River dams, seemingly pushing risky habitat projects on Skagit farmland instead that seem unlikely
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Seattle City Light, Eight Hundred Ton Gorilla With a Checkbook0
- Articles, Seattle City Light
- February 8, 2023
Seattle City Light has been an 800-ton gorilla recklessly throwing its weight around our valley for a long time. In 2014 City Light advanced an extremely dangerous initiative to divert the Skagit River directly toward our neighborhood through Barnaby Slough. And now it’s partially funding and providing study, political influence, and science support for a
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City of Seattle: DO THE RIGHT THING! BUILD FISH PASSAGE!0
- Articles, Barnaby Project, O'Brian Reach Study Project, Seattle City Light
- January 13, 2023
A contingent of concerned citizens including farmers, tribal leaders, Skagit County government leaders and others interested in preserving agricultural land, protecting our communities from flooding, and providing salmon with access to the 37% of the Skagit that exists above the dams, descended on the Seattle City Council chambers this morning, along with King5 News, to
READ MOREThe Skagit: A Rural/Indigenous Case Study0
- Articles, Barnaby Project, O'Brian Reach Study Project, Pinned, Seattle City Light
- November 9, 2021
Tribal leaders together with Skagit County leaders have been pushing the City of Seattle and its electric utility department to commit to building fish passage at its dams to provide salmon with access to the 37% of the Skagit River upstream of the dams. Here is an excellent panel discussion that aims to educate folks
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County Commissioner Peter Browning Deserves Re-Election
- News Items, Seattle City Light
- September 27, 2024