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Klamath power subsidy
For nearly a century, families across Oregon and California paid higher electric bills to subsidize fish-killing irrigation practices in the Klamath Basin.
No more cut-rate power: Klamath farmers eventually will pay market rate (Eugene Register Guard, 04/17/06)
Ratepayer Rip-Off--This 2002 Oregon Wild report blew the whistle on the exclusive $10 million per year water-pumping power subsidy enjoyed by irrigators in the Klamath River Basin, but paid for unknowingly by other electricity customers in Oregon and California.
The Environmental Working Group has more information on how below-cost electricity rates have fueled environmentally abusive agricultural practices.