Ted Stevens: “We have just seen the situation that has developed because of our lack of access to the land mass of Turkey.”

Then-U.S. Senator, Ted Stevens, encouraged the community to actively explore and develop our first hydro facility, Delta Creek.

[I]n 1995, 60 factory trawlers discarded nearly as much fish in the Bering Sea as was kept in the New England lobster fishery, the Atlantic mackerel fishery, the Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishery, the Pacific sablefish fishery, and the North…

[t]he waste in that area was as great as the total catch of all the major fisheries off our shores. These 60 factory trawlers threw overboard--dead and unused--about one out of every four fish they caught.

The innovations here at Chena... are truly an inspiration for a host of renewable projects.