USGS detailed the copper destroyed up to 90% of the invertebrates in the area, putting at stake food resources for future fish populations. Over 7,000 lbs of copper settled into the riverbed, potentially remaining toxic #idpol Treatments didn’t eliminate the mussels www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
What?! I had no idea this was their plan! Asshats.
Idaho utterly mishandled this from day one. It would have been a cheap buy for Idaho Power to be more aggressive in Idaho's quarantine. I have no sympathy for what they'll suffer except its the rate payer who will suffer.
“We understood the terrible gravity of what we had to undertake, but we also know ultimately what’s at stake,” Chanel Tewalt, Idaho State Department of Agriculture. #idpol