by Lamprey | May 13, 2020 | Dam Removal, FOER, News
For Release: Weds May 13, 2020 For more information: Alicia Hamann, Executive Director, alicia@eelriver.org Scott Greacen, Conservation Director, scott@eelriver.org Today’s filing proposes to remove Scott Dam, which would allow Eel River fish passage to their...
by Lamprey | Feb 19, 2020 | Action, Dam Removal
In response to preventable disasters like the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion, Pacific Gas and Electric has insisted that they are committed to high safety standards. It’s now a decade, and several other disasters, later and the company has yet to prove that they...
by Lamprey | Mar 13, 2019 | Comments, FOER
Amidst the tumultuous relicensing, auction, bankruptcy, and withdrawal developments for the Eel River dams, attention has largely centered around the most problematic of the two – Scott Dam, which is structurally unsound and has zero fish passage. However, while...
by Lamprey | Jan 29, 2019 | Dam Removal, FOER
We have great news for the Eel River and its fisheries. Days before entering bankruptcy, utility giant PG&E withdrew its application to relicense the Potter Valley Project and ended its attempt to sell the project, which includes two dams on the upper mainstem Eel...
by Lamprey | Jan 25, 2019 | Dam Removal, FOER, News
(Eureka) Friends of the Eel River welcomes today’s announcement by PG&E that the utility is withdrawing its formal notice of intent to seek relicensing of the Potter Valley Project (PVP) before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and ceasing its...
