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Klamath resident will testify
before Congress
A Klamath Basin resident will testify before a congressional
committee in Washington, D.C., today for the second time
this week.
Dan Keppen, executive director of Family Farm Alliance, didn’t plan to testify today, but agreed when asked by Rep. Greg Walden because he was already in D.C. to testify to the Senate Water and Power Subcommittee on a bill regarding irrigation levees.
“It’s a 2-for-1 week,” he said.
Keppen will speak at 10:30 a.m. today Pacific daylight time before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
The Family Farm Alliance released a report several months ago detailing how climate change is impacting farming and ranching in extreme conditions, such as the Basin’s high desert climate.
“If anyone can speak with authority about the importance of water in the West for farms and communities, it’s Dan Keppen,” Walden said in a press release. “After all, few people were more involved in helping find solutions to the 2001 water cut off in the Basin than Dan.”
Family Farm Alliance members have testified before congressional committees 15 times in the past years on issues affecting agriculture in the West. Today’s testimony will be the ninth time for Keppen.
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