Gov. Newsom asks Warren Buffett to back removal of Northern California dam
(World News Science)

By ROBERT JABLON | The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom has appealed directly to investor Warren Buffett to support demolishing four hydroelectric dams on a river along the Oregon-California border to save salmon populations that have dwindled to almost nothing. Newsom on Wednesday sent a letter to Buffett urging him to back the Klamath River project, which would be the largest dam removal in U.S. history. The dams are owned by PacificCorp, an Oregon-based utility that is part of Buffett`s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. conglomerate. The $450 million project would reshape California`s second-largest river and empty giant reservoirs. It could also revive plummeting salmon populations...