The nonprofit Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development (ITSSD) has once again waded into the local and D.C. swamps surrounding the ongoing Klamath Basin dam removal agenda of legacy bureaucrats and self-interested politicians.
Last week, ITSSD notified the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia of its intent to participate as an Amicus Curiae in the action filed in that court this past November by the Siskiyou County Water Users Association (SCWUA). The SCWUA had filed a Petition for Issuance of a Writ of Mandamus endeavoring to persuade the Court to compel the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to make a determination on SCWUA's earlier administrative motion to dismiss the FERC dam license transfer, decommissioning and removal proceedings initiated by PacifiCorp. FERC, of course, filed its opposition to SCWUA's motion claiming it wasn't merited under the facts presented.