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Thumbs up to county on getting back to the table
Klamath Falls Herald and News Editorial
April 11, 2009
 
    Thumbs Up: Thank goodness the Klamath County commissioners have an agent back at the table with Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement stakeholders. Commissioner John Elliott will again sit in on negotiations concerning the agreement having to do with so much that’s important to the county and Basin: water rights, power rates, dam removal and compensation considerations.

    Elliott represented the county at stakeholder meetings for a couple of years as the agreement was hashed out. Then recently, as it became apparent that the agreement really could grow legs, and that PacifiCorp might actually participate in talks about removing dams, the county counsel advised there might be issues because participants were being asked to keep information confidential.

    Commissioners feared that could run afoul of open government laws. Since then, it’s been decided that the commissioners could have a representative present at the talks without violating the rules, as long as commissioners weren’t making decisions in private, etc. Good.

    What we’re not impressed with is the notion, which commissioners have taken up, that the agreement should be amended to include articles on increasing water storage. Perhaps they are using that as a handy explanation for remaining on the fence (which, let’s face it, is just as good a place as any for commissioners to sit).
 
    The issue of water storage has been a major issue with people who want any variety of reasons for holding off support or for opposing the measure, but it’s about as logical as advising someone not to buy an auto insurance policy because it doesn’t protect their home from lightning. It’s all about one thing, but they are totally different things. To be sure, the KBRA covers just about everything but water storage ... but that’s no logic for throwing that 50-year process into the mix.
 

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