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Bentz Releases Statement Following Today's WWF Hearing on the Snake River Dams

December 12, 2023

Washington, D.C. - “Today’s Congressional hearing called out the Biden Administration for engaging in secret discussions to breach the four lower Snake River dams, to impose upon the people of the northwest billions in costs to replace thousands of megawatts of clean reliable power generated by these dams, and, if that was not enough, to force the people of the Northwest to inequitably pay billions in higher utility rates under the guise of building fish runs to levels not seen in centuries.” – Congressman Cliff Bentz

Click here to watch today's hearing.(link is external)