Dogged Seattle TV news investigators are reporting that the operator of three dams on the Skagit River has agreed to spend nearly $1 billion to install fish passage around the North Cascades ...

In a reversal from the city’s prior arguments against fish passage, the utility has agreed to spend $1 billion on that ...

Seattle City Light has proposed an agreement to continue to use hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River to power the city’s electricity for up to the next 50 years. But the full details of the ...

Treaty tribes and state and federal agencies have already approved a proposed agreement, which would commit Seattle’s public utility to spending up to $979 million on fish passage and $200 million on ...

Skagit County is considering approving the about 1,000-page settlement agreement that would set up the relicensing of the three Skagit River dams.

For years, Seattle City Light insisted its hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River were not harming salmon.

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Skagit County and treaty tribes are among the parties that pushed the utility on the fish passage issue, which City Light had resisted in the past. The almost-billion-dollar price tag on the salmon ...