As readers of this blog know, I am a longtime critic of the Deschutes River Alliance, whom I like to refer to as the “tin foil hat crowd”. I have dozens of posts over many years rebutting their unproven and unsound claims. Their current executive director is an excellent marketer, however, and she has once again proven that by getting Willamette Week to write an unbalanced and poorly researched article that repeats the DRA’s claims. (This story was reprinted in The Source Weekly.)

There was no word of government agency analyses or independent scientists or discussion of the many studies that disprove the DRA’s claims. There was no mention of the many environmental NGOs who do not agree with the DRA. There was no discussion of the studies of the impact of the SWW operation on fish health, or the new study on fish health being conducted. There was no discussion of the impact of global warming on the river. Etc., etc., etc. It was a truly one-sided article. I could go on in depth, but it’s just the same old story from the DRA being repeated by a manipulated and apparently biased reporter. Of course, this article will have no impact at all on the operation of the PRB complex. The agencies in charge have stopped listening to the DRA, after many attempts to work with them, but the article will help keep donations to the DRA coming in. After all, salaries need to be paid.