KALAMA — Developers appear to be calling it quits on a long-planned and controversial proposal to build a $2 billion methanol plant on the banks of the lower Columbia River.
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A century ago, the Similkameen River was dammed, and the salmon that ran the cold, clear water of the upper river suffered a similar fate.
Now, 101 years after its construction and 60 years since it ceased generating power, a movement to remove the Enloe Dam from the place where it interrupts the river, about six kilometres northwest of Oroville in Washington state, is gathering support.
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On Wednesday, B.C. conservationists applauded provincial Environment Minister George Heyman for penning a letter to Washington’s director of ecology, Laura Watson, to express B.C.’s support for decommissioning the derelict dam, in which he noted removing the obstacle has the “potential to provide vital fish passage and new habitat for our declining salmon and steelhead populations.”
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