Calling it "junk science," aluminum company attorneys on Monday
pressed their appeal challenging the Bonneville Power Administration’s
acceptance of a hydrosystem spill, flow augmentation and fish transportation
regime aimed at buoying salmon and steelhead populations in the Columbia-Snake
river basin.
Arguments in the case were heard in Portland before the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The petition focuses on the 1995 Biological Opinion for Snake …