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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">John Osborn <<a href="mailto:John@waterplanet.ws">John@waterplanet.ws</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>News! Columbia River Treaty: U.S. State Department starts listening process, UM to Host 5th International Treaty Ethics Conference</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">April 6, 2018 at 9:58:20 AM MDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">John Osborn <<a href="mailto:john@waterplanet.ws">john@waterplanet.ws</a>><br></span></div><br><div>
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<div class="col-md-12"><i>News Release - Friday, April 6, 2018</i><br>
<h3><font size="+2">Future of Columbia River Basin subject
of upcoming events, film released<br>
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<li><b><font size="+1">April 11: Missoula - <a href="http://www.celp.org/ethics-montana/">One
River, Ethics Matter: Western Montana</a></font></b></li>
<li><b><font size="+1">April 25: Spokane - <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/04/02/2018-06612/town-hall-meeting-on-modernizing-the-columbia-river-treaty-regime">Town
Hall Meeting on modernizing the Columbia River
Regime</a></font></b></li>
<li><b><font size="+1">Film Released: <a href="https://vimeo.com/253339676">Boise: One
River, Ethics Matter</a><br>
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</ul><p><i>Contacts:</i><br>
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<ul>
<li>John Osborn MD (<a href="http://www.celp.org/ethics-treaty-project/">Ethics
& Treaty Project</a>) 509.939-1290 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:john@waterplanet.ws">john@waterplanet.ws</a></li>
<li>Rev. Tom Soeldner (<a href="http://www.celp.org/ethics-treaty-project/">Ethics
& Treaty Project</a>) 509.270-6995 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:waltsoe@gmail.com">waltsoe@gmail.com</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><font color="#330033">Spokane: U.S. State Department to
launch series of meeting to engage communities of the
Columbia River Basin</font><br>
</h3><p>On April 25, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p,m. at the Davenport
Hotel (Isabella Room), the U.S. State Department will
discuss the modernization of the Columbia River Treaty
(CRT) regime, and take questions. Recognizing that people
throughout the region may be unable to attend, State
Department staff will provide a call-in telephone
number. This Town Hall will initiate the Department's
public engagement on the modernization of the CRT regime.
The meeting is open to the public, up to the capacity of
the room. People are encouraged to email their questions
in advance to: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ColumbiaRiverTreaty@state.gov">ColumbiaRiverTreaty@state.gov</a><br>
</p><p>More:<br>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/04/02/2018-06612/town-hall-meeting-on-modernizing-the-columbia-river-treaty-regime">Federal
Register posting</a></li>
<li>contact: Susan May, <em><a date="04/02/2018" href="mailto:ColumbiaRiverTreaty@state.gov">ColumbiaRiverTreaty@state.gov</a>,</em>
202-647-2228</li>
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<h3><font color="#330033">Missoula: UM to Host 5th Annual
International Columbia River Treaty Conference</font></h3>
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<div class="news_top">News Release online: <a href="http://news.umt.edu/2018/03/031418colu.php">view</a><br>
<div class="date"> Ethics Conference <a href="http://www.celp.org/ethics-montana/">Overview</a>
| <a href="http://www.celp.org/ethics-montana/agenda-2/">Agenda</a></div>
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<div class="content"><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><strong>MISSOULA</strong> – As Canada and the United
States start negotiations over the Columbia River Treaty,
the University of Montana will host a conference to
discuss the future of rivers flowing through western
Montana.</p><p>“One River, Ethics Matter” will take place from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in the University Center
Ballroom. The event is hosted by UM’s Center for Natural
Resources & Environmental Policy and the Department of
Geography and is free and open to the public. Lunch is
provided, and an evening reception will follow.
Participants are required to RSVP at <a href="http://bit.ly/2EWa6yi">http://bit.ly/2EWa6yi</a>. </p><p>Tribal, First Nations and religious leaders from the
Upper Columbia River will lead the one-day conference on
ethics and the past and future of the Columbia River. The
conference series is a multiyear undertaking based on the
Columbia River Pastoral Letter issued in 2001 by the 12
Northwest Roman Catholic Bishops of the international
watershed, combined with tools used by hospital ethics
consultation services.</p><p>The conference brings together religious leaders,
indigenous people, educators and writers, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ron Abraham, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, tribal
councilman and elder</li>
<li>Gary Aitken, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, tribal chairman</li>
<li>Barbara Cosens, University Consortium on Columbia
River Governance, University of Idaho College of Law,
professor</li>
<li>Jessica Crist, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Montana Synod, bishop</li>
<li>David James Duncan, writer</li>
<li>Tony Incashola, Salish-Pend d’Oreille Culture
Committee, director</li>
<li>Brian Lipscom, Confederated Salish and Kootenai
Tribes, CEO of Energy Keepers Inc.</li>
<li>D.R. Michel, Upper Columbia United Tribes, executive
director</li>
<li>Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, author of “A River Captured:
The Columbia River Treaty and Catastrophic Change”</li>
<li>David Shively, UM Department of Geography, chair</li>
<li>William Skylstad, Roman Catholic, bishop emeritus</li>
<li>Pat Smith, Northwest Power and Conservation Council,
former Montana delegate</li>
<li>Dan Spencer, UM Environmental Studies program,
professor</li>
<li>Pauline Terbasket, Okanagan Nation Alliance, executive
director</li>
</ul><p>“One River, Ethics Matter” will examine the moral
dimensions of the dam-building era, focusing on U.S.
Indian tribes and Canadian First Nations people, rivers
and the life that depends on them, and the compelling need
to add ecosystem-based function to the Columbia River
Treaty.</p><p>Topics will include the Libby dam and its international
impacts to the Kootenai River and Kootenay Lake; the
Hungry Horse dam and efforts to protect resident
fisheries; and the Séliš Ksanka Qlispé Project on the
Flathead River, a federal license now held by the
Confederate Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the first tribal
nation to own and operate a major hydropower facility.</p><p>The conference series is modeled on South Africa’s Truth
and Reconciliation Commission public dialogue in the wake
of apartheid. The Missoula ethics conference follows four
prior conferences in Spokane, Washington; Portland,
Oregon; Boise, Idaho; and Revelstoke, British Columbia.
The previous conferences focused on restoring salmon above
the Grand Coulee dam, floodplain development in the
Portland area, the impacts of Idaho Power Company’s Hells
Canyon complex of dams and the effects of treaty dams in
British Columbia.</p><p>Conference sponsors for 2018 include the Upper Columbia
United Tribes, Universities Consortium on Columbia River
Governance, the Canadian Water Resources Association, the
Sierra Club’s Montana, Idaho and Washington chapters, the
Columbia Institute for Water Policy, the Center for
Environmental Law & Policy, Rachael and John Osborn,
UM’s Environmental Studies program, UM’s Native American
Studies Department, the Flathead Lake Biological Station
and UM’s Department of Geography.</p><p>To read more about the Ethics & Treaty Project from
the Center for Environmental Law & Policy, visit <a href="http://www.celp.org/ethics-treaty-project/">http://www.celp.org/ethics-treaty-project/</a>.
For more information about “One River, Ethics Matter,”
visit <a href="http://www.celp.org/ethics-montana/">http://www.celp.org/ethics-montana/</a>
or email Sophia Cinnamon, UM environmental studies
graduate student and chair of the conference planning
committee, at <a href="mailto:sophia.cinnamon@umontana.edu">sophia.cinnamon@umontana.edu</a>.</p><p>Other contacts are David Shively, UM Department of
Geography chair, at <a href="mailto:david.shively@mso.umt.edu">david.shively@mso.umt.edu</a><span>;
Rich Janssen, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Department of Natural Resources director, at </span><a href="mailto:richard.janssen@cskt.org">richard.janssen@cskt.org</a><span>;
Rev. W. Thomas Soeldner, Ethics & Treaty Project
coordinator, at </span><a href="mailto:waltsoe@gmail.com">waltsoe@gmail.com</a><span>;
and John Osborn, Ethics & Treaty Project
coordinator, at </span><a href="mailto:john@waterplanet.ws">john@waterplanet.ws</a><span>.
</span></p>
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<div class="contact"><p> <strong>Contact:</strong> Sophia Cinnamon, UM
environmental studies graduate student, <a href="mailto:sophia.cinnamon@umontana.edu">sophia.cinnamon@umontana.edu</a>.
</p>
<h3><font color="#330033">Film released: Boise: One River,
Ethics Matter<br>
</font></h3><p>On March 14, 2016, religious and tribal leaders from the
Snake River Basin and the larger Columbia Basin led a
one-day conference on ethics and the future of the
Columbia River and its major tributary, the Snake River.
The conference was spurred by two events: re-negotiation
of the U.S.-Canada Columbia River Treaty, and re-licensing
of Idaho Power Company’s Hells Canyon Complex of dams. On
the eve of the upcoming ethics conference in Missoula, the
film from the Boise conference is now completed and
released<br>
</p><p><i>Links:</i><br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Film: <a href="https://vimeo.com/253339676">Boise:
One River – Ethics Matter</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.celp.org/ethics-boise/">Boise
Conference Overview</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.celp.org/ethics-treaty-project/ethics-boise-agenda/">Agenda</a></li>
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