Jacques Leslie
Contributing Opinion Writer at Los Angeles Times
LATimes contributing opinion writer. Named "Enemy of the Week" by American Spectator. Wrote Deep Water (on dams) & The Mark (Vietnam war correspondent memoir).
Articles
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1 week ago |
thebrunswicknews.com | Jacques Leslie
The Trump administration ruined what should have been a good spring in the Klamath River basin. By abruptly laying off federal personnel and freezing payments for already authorized programs and projects, the administration replaced a budding sense of hopefulness in the basin with fear and uncertainty, and tore at fragile bonds years in the making among upper basin ranchers and farmers, federal, state and local governments, nonprofits and Native tribes.
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1 week ago |
miamiherald.com | Jacques Leslie
The Trump administration ruined what should have been a good spring in the Klamath River basin. By abruptly laying off federal personnel and freezing payments for already authorized programs and projects, the administration replaced a budding sense of hopefulness in the basin with fear and uncertainty, and tore at fragile bonds years in the making among upper basin ranchers and farmers, federal, state and local governments, nonprofits and Native tribes.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Jacques Leslie
The Trump administration ruined what should have been a good spring in the Klamath River basin. By abruptly laying off federal personnel and freezing payments for already authorized programs and projects, the administration replaced a budding sense of hopefulness in the basin with fear and uncertainty, and tore at fragile bonds years in the making among upper basin ranchers and farmers, federal, state and local governments, nonprofits and Native tribes.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Jacques Leslie |Jordan Gale
Completion of the world's largest dam removal project - which demolished four Klamath River hydroelectric dams on both sides of the California-Oregon border - has been celebrated as a monumental achievement, signaling the emerging political power of Native American tribes and the river-protection movement. True enough.
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Jan 14, 2025 |
climatechangenews.com | Jacques Leslie
This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360. After a decade of declining to finance large hydroelectric dams, the World Bank is getting back into the business in a big way. Throughout the last half of the 20th century, the bank was the world’s leading supporter of big hydro. But over the last two decades, it followed a zigzag pattern as dam supporters and critics inside the institution took turns determining hydro policy.
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