URBAN NGO SILENCES RURAL VOTERS: San Francisco-based org blocked Lake County from dam removal talks

Cal Trout single-handedly kept the county where Scott Dam and Lake Pillsbury are located from a seat at the table in talks to take over the Potter Valley Project from PG&E.

Cal Trout, a green group based in San Francisco, blocked Lake County from talks to assume local management over two fated dams, Supervisor Eddie “E.J.” Crandell revealed in an interview released Wednesday.

“They said no, but the others said yes, and we weren’t allowed to be at the table,” says Crandell, chairman of the Lake County Board of Supervisors an…