LNG Update

Hello OCAPers and anti-LNGers:

This is an urgent call to action!

As many of you know, for the past several months the Water Resources
Department (WRD) has been considering an application from
NorthernStar/Bradwood Landing to take 15 Billion Gallons of water from the
Columbia River in it's first year. The WRD will also be responsible for
issuing permits for the continual use of 12 Billion gallons of water during
every year of Bradwood LNG operation. As a part of that application the
Oregon Department of Fish &Wildlife must make a determination on the impact
of that water right to fish in the affected area of the river.

*We believe that the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW) is poised
and ready to claim that NorthernStar's removal of billions of gallons of
water will not have a detrimental impact to fish. They are making this
evaluation based on inadequate information about the method by which that
water will be screened in an area that is crucial habitat for salmon.* The
information provided to that agency is that same information currently being
challenged by the State of Oregon, State of Washington, Columbia Riverkeeper
and Columbia Inter-Tribal Fish Commission as being incomplete in the EIS for
Bradwood Landing. The possibility of this move by the ODFW is completely out
of synch with Governor Kulongoski and the State of Oregon that are
petitioning for a rehearing by FERC based on the fact that the analsyis done
for this project is incomplete.

Please read the action alert and sample email below and contact the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife today! They could make this decision at any
time within the next couple of weeks and they need to hear from you!
*Contact information for key decision makers are included in the alert
below.*

Thanks to all of you for responding to this call to action and for your
tireless efforts to protect our waterways and fish habitat from this
devastating project!
-Olivia Schmidt
Columbia Riverkeeper
(971)533-2390
oliviariver@gmail.com