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Comments and researched, verified concerns, aka Property Rights / Klamath Irrigators / Farmers / Families / Dams / Land / Water Letter regarding Project Number P-2082-027
November 7, 2006
To: Magalie R. Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 888 First Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20426
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BCCed to: Let your imagination run wild! This entire email is to be accepted and construed as my official public comments regarding "Project Number P-2082-027." It is of note that my comments are in maroon, while Language Deception rates bold red and what should be obvious facts are in bold black. You will note today's date: November 7, 2006, is well before the comment deadline of November 24, 2006. I am also mailing these comments in their entirety to "Magalie R. Salas" at the postal mailing address above, and the mailed comments, six pages in length, will be postmarked November 8, 2006. Magalie R. Salas is hereby instructed and expected to immediately notify me upon receipt of both my emailed and mailed comments. Chicken Little continues his hue and cry in the 21st century form of Felice Pace, Regina Chichizola, some Karuk and Yurok tribal spokesmen, and countless others that feast upon the bounty served up by the good people that irrigate, farm and ranch in the Klamath Basin / Klamath Project. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you: It's apparently not enough to grow and be kept healthy by the plethora of food and fiber products grown in the Klamath Basin (i.e., the area covered by the Klamath Hydroelectric Project No. 2082-027). The people and organizations clamoring for the "restoration" of the Klamath River by the wholesale slaughter of its dams know not what they are really asking. If these people and organizations suddenly found the shelves in their grocery stores bereft of food, would they suddenly be singing a different tune? You betcha! The Pied Pipers of The Wildlands Project make "restoration," "protection," and other words most Americans are taught from childhood to trust, into cleverly cloaked stalking horses that steal property rights and freedom. Yea, though these Pied Pipers tout "sustainability," their real motive is to make their followers subservient to them and to round up, rope and take control of all the property rights and freedom enjoyed by others, for themselves. A few want the control of the rest, which is nothing new, other than that the planned extermination and extinction of America's middle class, her private property owning, freedom-loving generational resource owners and utilizers. This is not a Republic. It is not America. It is slated to dive into the depths of servitude, with a powerful few controlling the lands, waters, and all other resources that once belonged to a proud and mighty Christian nation known as the United States of America. Are some of you reading this and growing upset? Good! It's certainly a good time to do so, as such schemes have tricked us into allowing our beloved country, along with our property rights and therefore, our freedom, to totter and almost go over the brink into another Dark Age. The Klamath DAMS (FERC, you may call them "developments," but they are DAMS) must STAY. They must be maintained and kept fully functional according to your own FERC "vision:" "Abundant, reliable energy in a fair competitive market" and "mission:" "Regulate and oversee energy industries in the economic, environmental, and safety interests of the American public." These for-the-most-part either young and malleable-minded, or older and either of the mind set of keeping their state or federal -- or grant, i.e., taxpayer-funded -- employment and 'perks,' individuals, have put their self-respect and dignity up for sale as they chorus such Language Deception as: "Removing the Klamath Dams would be the largest dam removal project ever, and thus the largest river restoration project ever" and other equally shrill falsehoods. The new synonym for "dam" is apparently "development," and for "dams" is apparently "developments." Read on for the FERC wording using these new substitutions: Draft Environmental Impact Statement for relicensing of the Klamath
Hydroelectric Project No. 2082-027 Issued: September 25, 2006
Source:
http://www.ferc.gov/industries/hydropower/enviro/eis/09-25-06.asp So, FERC, if you stop calling them "dams," will they stop being dams? Do explain! How can the average layman -- i.e., irrigator, farmer, farmer's wife, farmer's children, farmer's friends, local banker, feed store or other business operator -- intelligently comment on your Draft Environmental Impact Statement for relicensing of the Klamath Hydroelectric Project No. 2082-027 if you change the language with which they are familiar? Would you expect a child to suddenly comprehend Greek in a book that was written in English the previous day? Continuing from this website address / URL: http://www.ferc.gov/industries/hydropower/enviro/eis/09-25-06.asp "Based on our detailed analysis of the environmental benefits and
costs associated with the four alternatives considered in detail in this
draft EIS, we conclude that the best alternative for the Klamath
Hydroelectric Project would be to issue a new license consistent with
the environmental measures specified in the Staff Alternative.
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling/docs-efiled.asp" how can anyone outside the federal government employ, with the possible exception of those involved in litigation, hope to understand and lucidly comment, when the very directions are, verily, a can of worms? Visit the "Comments on this DEIS can be eFiled" http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp to see exactly what I mean! Reading from the FERC 'playbook,' also known as "About FERC: Top Priorities" Top Priorities: These are the most important issues that are either pending before or being implemented by the Commission. Top Priorities include efforts related to industries regulated by the Commission, and actions that are being taken to improve Commission services for the public. Source: http://www.ferc.gov/about/top-priorities.asp and "FERC: Strategic Plan FY 2006-FY 2001:" "FERC Vision: Abundant, reliable energy in a fair competitive market. Source: http://www.ferc.gov/about/strat-docs/strat-plan.asp
Guiding Principles that Strengthen the Commission's Overall Performances
Organizational Excellence: Use resources efficiently and effectively to achieve its strategic priorities.
Goal 1: Energy Infrastructure - Promote the Development of a Strong Energy Infrastructure Objective A: Stimulate Appropriate Infrastructure Development Resolve regulatory and other challenges to needed development Encourage investment and effect timely cost recovery Objective B: Maintain a Reliable and Safe Infrastructure Assure reliability of interstate transmission grid Protect safety at LNG and hydropower facilities Incorporate environmental considerations into Commission decisions
Objective A: Develop Rules that Encourage Fair and Efficient Competitive Markets Employ best practices in market rules Reduce barriers to trade between markets and among regions
Assure proposed mergers and acquisitions are in the public interest Address market power in jurisdictional wholesale markets Objective A: Provide Vigilant Oversight Identify and remedy problems with structure and operations in energy markets Objective B: Provide Firm but Fair Enforcement Establish clear and fair processes Conduct investigations promptly and impose penalties where appropriate Encourage self-policing and -reporting of violations" There must be no heed paid to the expired-since-October 1, 1992, "Endangered Species Act." There must be no question whatsoever that the Klamath Project Dams ("developments") must be relicensed and continue to do their jobs for the people: the people of the Klamath Basin, the people of the United States of America and the people of the world -- who are so much the richer for the blood, sweat and tears equity of the awesome, knowledgeable, hardworking, honorable and honest Klamath Project irrigator and farmer and his family. You can do no less. You must do no less! Signed,
Miss Julie Kay Smithson Property rights and resource provider researcher 213 Thorn Locust Lane London, Ohio 43140 |
