Eel River News
Honoring Our Fearless Founder, Nadananda
The founder of our organization, Patricia Nadananda Hamilton is a champion for the Wild and Free Eel River. Seeing the Eel and its fisheries in decline in the early 1990s, she began organizing for an Eel River freed of PG&E’s Potter Valley Project dams and restored…
An Agreement for Post-Dam Removal Diversions From the Eel
Just a week after PG&E’s draft plan for dam removal was made public, so too was a plan for post-dam removal diversions from the Eel to Russian River.
A Deal for the Eel? — EcoNews Report #264
This week on the EcoNews Report our host Alicia Hamann from Friends of the Eel River talks about the flurry of recent developments on Eel River dam removal. On January 31 PG&E released their final draft license surrender application, a document that outlines some...
PG&E’s Draft Dam Removal Plan Finally Released
PG&E released their draft license surrender application on Friday, January 31. This is the latest step in the long process of evaluating the best options for Eel River dam removal. Following the release of this draft, PG&E will accept comments from...
Dissecting Trump’s First Week — EcoNews Report #262
President Trump has entered his second term with a wave of executive orders and other executive actions. These have pulled the U.S. from international climate accords, blamed Southern California fires on “radical environmentalism”—he means us!—and portended a gutting…
Hope – EcoNews Report #257
Environmentalists have a reputation for being a bit too doom-and-gloom. But what gives us hope? Jen Kalt of Humboldt Waterkeeper, Alicia Hamann of Friends of the Eel River, Colin Fiske of the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities and Tom Wheeler of the…
Earthquake – EcoNews Report #256
What’s the difference between a strike-slip fault and a subduction zone? Can a 7.0-magnitude earthquake generate a tsunami? And what on earth was going on with all that weird footage of Humboldt Bay last week, in the wake of the quake? Jay Patton, of Cal Poly….
Our River Needs You
Well friends, I write this the day after the election and two months after the birth of my second baby. As so many of us are, I am wrestling with hope and despair. New life brings such promise, yet grave new dangers face families like mine. Our work gives me hope. But...
Pre-Election Jitters with Rep. Jared Huffman – EcoNews Report #251
Congressman Huffman is back on the show. With a major election in just a few days, what is the Congressman up to? When he isn’t calling voters in swing states — has anyone in Nevada received a call from a “Jared from California”? — he is sponsoring new legislation to…
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