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    The Council works to protect and enhance fish and wildlife in the Columbia River Basin. Its Fish & Wildlife Program guides project funding by the Bonneville Power Administration.

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  1. What’s Next for Solar Generation?

    May 16, 2019 Steve Simmons
    The equipment and installation costs for these systems continue to decline, making them even more attractive for consumers who want to generate their own onsite clean electricity – referred to as "behind the meter" solar

  2. Registration Opens For September International Columbia River Conference

    Mar 14, 2019
    The conference in Kimberley, British Columbia, will address key issues including the Columbia River Treaty and climate change, and is being co-hosted by the Columbia Basin Trust and the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.

  3. Council Receives Recommendations to Revise the Fish and Wildlife Program

    Jan 16, 2019 John Harrison
    51 recommendations, 888 pages. The Council has received 51 sets of recommendations in response to its request for revisions t

  4. BPA Identifies First Potential Cuts in Budget for Council's Fish and Wildlife Program

    Jul 16, 2018 John Harrison
    The Bonneville Power Administration is identifying potential cuts in the budget of the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program, including so far to water acquisitions and a net-pen salmon production program.

  5. Fish and Wildlife Program Amendment

    May 10, 2018 John Harrison
    Every five years the Council revises its Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program, beginning with a call for amendment recommendations.

  6. Tough Task

    Jan 16, 2018 John Harrison
    Deciding when to build new power plants is a tough decision and should not be based on a political goal, departing Council chair Henry Lorenzen says.

  7. Key Questions for the Next Fish and Wildlife Program

    Oct 11, 2017 John Harrison
    The Council asks the Independent Scientific Advisory Board for advice regarding the next revision of the fish and wildlife program, set to begin next spring.

  8. Program Amendment

    Oct 2, 2017 John Harrison
    It's time to start thinking about the next revision of the Fish and Wildlife Program. A review of the current Program by independent scientists will help inform the direction of that revision.

  9. Megawatt? A Powerful Question.

    Oct 20, 2016 John Ollis
    What's a megawatt and what can it do? We explain.

  10. Storable Power

    Oct 17, 2016 John Harrison
    Energy storage technologies that hold power and release it when needed can make renewable generation more valuable.

  11. Implementing the 2014 Fish and Wildlife Program

    Dec 9, 2014 John Harrison
    In October, the Council approved the latest version of its Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program, revised every five years. Now the Council is beginning to discuss how

  12. The public weighs in on draft fish and wildlife program

    Jun 20, 2014 John Harrison
    The future management of fish hatcheries, reintroduction of salmon and steelhead above Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams, and the cost of fish and wildlife mitigation are attr

  13. Council releases draft 2014 Fish and Wildlife Program for review

    May 7, 2014 John Harrison
    A revision of the largest regional fish and wildlife recovery program in the nation includes actions to improve ecosystem function, protect wild salmon and steelhead, eradicate

  14. Draft 2014 Fish and Wildlife Program is taking shape

    Apr 9, 2014 John Harrison
    At its April meeting, the Council began deliberations on the Draft 2014 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program in preparation for releasing it for 60 days of public comment by the end of the m

  15. Council's fish and wildlife program benefits Oregon chub, proposed for delisting

    Feb 14, 2014 John Harrison
    The Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program has a small but important role in a proposal to remove Oregon chub from the federal endangered species list, the f

  16. Issues For Next Fish And Wildlife Program Include Dams, Hatcheries, Invasive Species

    Dec 18, 2013 John Harrison
    On the Kootenay River, the second powerhouse at Brilliant Dam, left, was built to accommodate a fish ladder. The dam is near the confluence with the Columbia at Castlegar, Brit

  17. BC seeks comments on draft Columbia River Treaty recommendations

    Oct 22, 2013 John Harrison
    Bill Bennett This past weekend at the annual symposium of British Columbia’s Columbia Basin Trust, which focused on community change through collaborative action, Bill Bennet

  18. Protected areas draw interest in Fish and Wildlife Program review

    Oct 8, 2013 John Harrison
    The protected areas rule in the fish and wildlife program prohibits new hydropower dams in order to protect fish, wildlife and habitat.  This is a salmon-bearing tributary of

  19. Recommendations pour in to amend fish and wildlife program

    Sep 24, 2013 John Harrison
    These sockeye salmon have returned to Redfish Lake in Idaho to spawn, produced and supported through a project in the Council's fish and wildlire program. The Northwest Power a

  20. Council begins review of regional fish and wildlife program

    Mar 27, 2013 John Harrison
                 The Council this week begins a once-every-five-years process of reviewing the largest regional fish and wildlife program in the nation, one that last year paid for nearly $250

  21. Revisiting the Columbia River Treaty

    Feb 24, 2011 Carol Winkel
    In the upcoming Council Quarterly, we interview Stephen R. Oliver, vice president of generation asset management for the Bonneville Power Administration and the co-coordinator of the U.S. Entity for

  22. Interest grows in future dam operations as Columbia River Treaty deadline approaches

    Nov 10, 2010 John Harrison
    Electric utilities, academics, tribes, and government agencies in the United States and Canada are beginning to think about the future of the Columbia River Treaty, the 1964 agreement between the two
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