The Hydropower Toolkit (2005), published by the Hydropower Reform Coalition (HRC), was written by Natural Heritage Institute (NHI) staff Richard Roos-Collins (Senior Attorney) and Julie Gantenbein (Attorney). These primary authors were assisted by Danielle Droitsch (HRC Policy Director (2003-2004)), Andrew Fahlund (HRC Chairman), Alice Hill and John Seebach (HRC National Coordinators), Rebecca Sherman (HRC Pacific Northwest Coordinator), and Laura Norlander (California HRC Director). They were further assisted by Shane Conway, Terri Cordrey, and Kat Ridolfi (NHI paralegals), Nathan G. Alley (NHI Attorney), Barbara Vallarino (American Rivers' law clerk (2003)), and other members of the HRC Steering Committee.
The HRC gratefully acknowledges the many individuals in the broader hydropower community who graciously provided their peer reviews of the non-strategic parts of the Toolkit. Listed alphabetically, they include: David Diamond, Office of Policy Analysis, U.S. Department of Interior; Melanie Harris, NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Department of Commerce; Joan Harn, National Park Service, U.S. Department of Interior; Mona Janopaul, U.S. Forest Service; Brett Joseph, Office of General Counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce; Cassie Thomas, National Park Service; and Randy Thoreson, National Park Service. Of course, these reviewers provided such reviews in their individual capacities.
The HRC is solely responsible for each statement, and any error, in this Toolkit.
This Toolkit is intended as a public service. It does not represent the legal opinion of the HRC as a whole or any member thereof on any issue disputed in a licensing or related proceeding. It is not offered or intended as legal advice to any reader who participates in such a proceeding.
