Trump pulls US from plan to recover salmon population, calling it ‘radical’ | Trump administration
Donald Trump The US federal government withdrew from a historic agreement to recover Salmon In the northwest of the Pacific Ocean, describing the “Radical Environment” plan.
A Presidential memo Trump issued it on Thursday removes the United States from an average deal Joe Biden With Washington, Oregon and four original American tribes, they restore salmon and develop the clean energy of the tribes.
The tribes have claimed for decades that four electrical dams are on Northwest of the snake river Ownership Shed Population. The government had committed to analyzing the effect of dams.
This agreement has now been deleted by the American President, with the indication that “he continues to give priority to energy infrastructure in our nation and use natural resources to reduce the cost of living for all Americans due to concerns of speculative climate change.”
The region’s tribes condemned the decision. Gerald Lewis, President of the Yakama Tribal Council, said that Trump’s move “is repeating the historical style of the federal government from the broken promises of tribes, and contradicts the commitment of President Trump announced to develop local energy.”
The deal, known as the Flexible Colombia Basin Convention, was reached in late 2023, and it was announced by the Biden and Circuit Administration and preserved the province as historical. It allowed the suspension of decades ago to litigate the harm made by the operation of the federal dams in the northwest of fish.
Accordingly, the federal government said it plans to spend more than a billion dollars over a decade to help recover the exhausted salmon. The government also said it would build enough new clean energy projects in the northwest of the Pacific Ocean to replace the hydroelectric energy resulting from the lower snake-ice-fly dams, a few geese, archaeological granite and lower granite-must agree to remove it.
Conservation groups and Democratic members in Congress and Northern Western tribes criticized Trump’s work.
“Donald Trump does not know the first thing about the northwest and our way of life – so of course, it suddenly raises a historical agreement that finally puts us on a road to restore salmon, while maintaining the stable dam operations of farmers and producers, river users, ports and others throughout the northwest,” Patee Murray, one of the Senator in the United States. “This decision is very wrong and cannot be the most vision stories.”
The Colombia River basin, a Tenasan -size area, was one day the greatest river system that produces salmon in the world, with at least 16 stocks of salmon and steel. Today, four and seven listed under the endangered species law are extinct. Another type of iconic but threatened northern northwestern species, a group of Orca, or deadly whales, too It depends on salmon.
The construction of the first dams on the major Colombia River, including the Cole Cole and Bonville dams in the 1930s, provides functions during the great depression, as well as electrical energy and navigation.
But the dams are also the main perpetrator behind the reception of salmon, and fishermen concluded that the breach of dams in eastern Washington on the snake, the largest tributary in Colombia, will be the best hope for its recovery.
The tribes, which reserved the right to hunting in their usual and usual lands when they waived huge amounts of land in their treaties in the nineteenth century with the United States, were warned as much as they were in the late thirties of the last century may disappear, as fish are no longer able to reach the drain lands.
Republicans in the northwest in Congress opposed the agreement to a large extent, and they warned that this would harm the economy of the region, although in 2021, Mike Simpson, a Republican representative in Idaho, suggested that the dirt walls be removed on both sides of the four low dams to allow the river freely, and spend $ 33 billion to replace the benefits accurately.
The tribes and the Earthjustice environmental company said they would continue to rebuild salmon stocks.
Unfortunately, this decision is short seen in this important agreement is the latest in a series of anti -government measures and the fight against science coming from Trump administrationA great lawyer on the ground, Amanda Juden, said.
The Associated Press contributed to the reports
