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The Real Cost of Lower Snake River Dams by Monica Tomosy Bend Bulletin, August 28, 2022

BPA rate pressure is reduced following Remove Snake River Embankments
of MO3 (Multi-Objective 3) Columbia River System Operations Environmental Impact Statemet.

Behold the guest column filled with self-serving misinformation by the CEO of Central Electric Cooperative, Monica Tomosy. His July 31 piece on the Lower Snake River Dams (LSRDs) claims dams face "extinction"; quite the attempt at jujitsu! What is going on right now is a massive propaganda campaign by the northwest hydropower establishment. They don't want citizens to know how much these four dams really cost, and that we pay for it, one way or another.

Dams are expensive to maintain. Our "low rates" are low because taxpayers are subsidizing the costs. Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has already borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government just to keep LSRDs solvent, and soon, the LSRD turbines need to be replaced. Those future costs have not arrived yet. It is unrealistic for LSRDs to continue to operate without BPA going further in debt to the U.S. Treasury: No tears shed by public utility district execs there.

Related Pages:
A Carbon Free, Renewable Resource Faces Extinction by Dave Markham, Bend Bulletin, 8/2/22
Governor Brown Chooses Litigation Over Collaboration by Markham & Schneider, Bend Bulletin, 12/29/20