Why did Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger help Warren Buffett use taxpayer money to get rid of barriers?
A view of the Klamath River on July 19, 2023. Now that four dams are gone, a few salmon have been spotted above the dam sites.Sixty years ago, I was a reporter for the Klamath Falls Herald and News and with my family lived in a small house on the , which meanders through 257 miles of sparsely populated, mountainous land in Southern Oregon and Northern California before flowing into the Pacific Ocean.
At the time, Upper Klamath Lake and the Klamath River were primarily seen locally as sources of water for expansion of the Klamath Basin’s agricultural industry, particularly alfalfa and potatoes. COPCO, as the utility was known, and its dams were eventually absorbed into Pacific Power and Light Co., which even later became Pacificorp and was acquired by billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway holding company.
Their cause drew political support in California and Oregon, and when Buffett’s pal, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, became California’s governor two decades ago, he placed Why should California’s taxpayers help Buffett get rid of dams that probably could not be relicensed anyway?
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