The Eel River dams will never produce hydropower again. The unreliable water supply they allow to the Russian River will fail as geology and physics proceed. Pacific Gas and Electric’s (PG&E) Potter Valley Project has failed, forever, at the primary purpose for...
Re: Opposition to AB 564 and Section 34011.2 of AB 8 Dear Chair Gipson, Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry, and Assemblymember Haney, On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we write in respectful opposition to AB 564 (Haney) and the proposed Section 34011.2 of AB...
Dear Senate President Pro Tempore McGuire, Friends of the Eel River strongly opposes SB 607 (Wiener). One of the most important aspects of the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, is that it provides a means for everyday citizens and advocacy groups...
Nearly every year for the past decade, PG&E has requested permission from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, to adjust diversions at the Potter Valley Project from the Eel River into the Russian River. This is because the Project has failed in...
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) warns that when we experience the next Cascadia subduction zone earthquake, land near the coast may rise or fall significantly over a short period of time — think plus or minus five...
