On July 16 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) made the decision to allow a partial transfer of the lower 4 Klamath River dams to the Klamath River Renewal Corporation for the purpose of dam removal.

FERC conditioned that PacifiCorp, a company owned by Billionaire Warren Buffett, remained a co-licensee. PacifiCorp now says that FERC’s decision denies its customers the protections it negotiated, and they want to renegotiate, despite having already collected $200 million from their ratepayers and $250 million from California taxpayers for the purpose of dam removal. The Agreement already shields PacifiCorp from risks and liabilities associated with dam removal, making the Agreement already in PacifiCorp’s best financial interests.  

Buffett’s PacifiCorp is threatening to back out of the dam removal agreement. This goes back on two decades of negotiations and betrays the trust of their partners, who include many Tribal nations and Klamath River communities. Threatening to walk out on Klamath River and coastal communities is not the behavior of a socially responsible company. It’s time for PacifiCorp to recommit to dam removal. 

With every year that passes, Klamath River salmon edge closer to extinction. We can’t afford any more delays in this process. It’s time for Warren Buffett’s PacifiCorp to do the right thing and allow this dam removal agreement to move forward. 

SIGN THIS PETITION TO SUPPORT THE MOST AMBITIOUS SALMON RESTORATION PROJECT IN THE WORLD AND TELL WARREN BUFFETT TO RECOMMIT TO DAM REMOVAL!