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Dammed to Extinction: A COINversation
June 14, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
From COINversations and Indivisible:
Dinner and a Movie, Anyone? June 14th, 6-8 pm – online
For our next COINversation COIN will screen the documentary, Dammed To Extinction, about the plight of the Snake River salmon and the role dams have played in their decline.
Enjoy your dinner during the screening, and a panel discussion with a call to action will follow!
Please register and submit questions for panelists here. bit.ly/COINJun14
Panelists for the Q&A will include:
Steven Hawley is a journalist from Hood River, Oregon. He’s the author of Recovering a Lost River and the writer and co-producer of Dammed to Extinction, a 2019 documentary that depicts the plight of salmon-dependent killer whales.
Jim Waddell: Jim is a civil engineer with a 35 year career in the US Army Corps of Engineers. After senior policy positions in Corps Headquarters, he then held the highest civilian position in the Corps Walla Walla District as Deputy District Engineer for Program Management overseeing seven major hydro dams including the Lower Snake River dams. As founder and director of Dam Sense, he continues analysis and educating with concise knowledge about these dams with a background not found elsewhere. During his distinguished career, he was the Senior Policy Analyist for the Environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Jim has comprehensive and practical knowledge of how Army Corps and federal business is done. Jim also serves in an elected position as a Public Utility Commissioner in Clallam County Washington.
Scott Levy: Scott is an activist and volunteer. BS Mechanical Engineering UC Berkley, filmmaker, adventurist, outdoor enthusiast. Scott has dedicated the last 23 years of his life to studying the effects of the lower Snake River dams on our environment and the consequent climate change effects. Mitigation for their removal is easy. Repairing a collapsing ecosystem is not.
Heather Nicholson: Heather is an electric cooperative co-owner in the San Juan Islands. She is engaged civically and with other advocates on the solvability of breaching the lower Snake dams which is the most significant and required action to stop the extinction of critically endangered whales and their wild Chinook salmon food source.