Energy Development

KS Wild monitors energy projects affecting public lands such as gas pipelines and dams.

The energy industry has access to many of America's most beautiful, remote and sensitive public lands. Across the West, federal agencies are rushing to lease these areas for oil and gas development, industrializing millions of acres of previously wild and open land. The dense web of power lines, pipelines, waste pits, roads and processing plants springing up across the West is driving deer, bears and other wildlife from their native ranges.

The U.S. has not yet developed a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) port on the West Coast. However, there are a number of proposals form companies stretching from southern California to Washington vying for the West Coast’s first LNG project. KS Wild is working with concerned citizens to prevent the impacts of the proposed LNG port at Coos Bay and an associated 223-mile pipeline traversing mountains, forests, and rivers in Southwest Oregon. Click here for more information.

The Department of Energy and cooperating agencies have released their draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the West-Wide Energy Corridors!  Comments are due by February 14th, 2008. Click here for more information.

The Klamath River was taken hostage decades ago by a series of dams that generate electricity for Pacific Power. The result has devastated native fish runs, creating record lows for salmon and other fish, instigated toxic algae blooms and contributed to the largest fish kill in American history. The mismanagement of Klamath fish runs has seriously impacted Native American communities and the commercial fishing industry. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is currently in the process of re-licensing the Pacific Power dams for another 50 years. Now is the time to remove these fish-killing dams and help restore this mighty river system. Click here for more information.