<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp81562ba8yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div class="ydpfa166a83ii ydpfa166a83gt" style="direction: ltr; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="ydpfa166a83a3s ydpfa166a83aXjCH" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 36pt;">MEDIA STATEMENT</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="ydpfa166a83m_-6834084064914878354gmail-docs-internal-guid-b6b6fe9f-7fff-a068-2aa4-1e1c5b4b0895" style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-right: 18pt; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Karuk Tribe ● Yurok Tribe ● Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations ● Trout Unlimited ● California Trout Sustainable Northwest ● American Rivers ● Save California Salmon ● Klamath Riverkeeper </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For Immediate Release</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 30, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Craig Tucker, Karuk Tribe Natural Resources Consultant, 916-207-8294</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nina Erlich-Williams, Public Good PR, 415-577-1153</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GOV NEWSOM URGES WARREN BUFFETT TO STICK WITH KLAMATH DAM AGREEMENT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tribes, Fishermen, Conservationists Applaud Newsom’s Letter to Business Mogul</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sacramento, Calif. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— On July 29</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, California Governor Gavin Newsom sent </span><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ndz8ncdzvv0sny/Governor%27s%20Letter%20on%20Klamath%20River_07-29-2020.pdf?dl=0" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ndz8ncdzvv0sny/Governor%2527s%2520Letter%2520on%2520Klamath%2520River_07-29-2020.pdf?dl%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1596237916243000&usg=AFQjCNFCsCUIiuBA4phXHKgLtI5ZjA9onQ" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a letter</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to Warren Buffett and leaders at Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) urging the company to stick to an agreement to remove four aging Klamath River hydroelectric dams along the California-Oregon border. Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company of PacifiCorp, which owns and operates the dams. PacifiCorp is now threatening to walk away from the agreement and instead pursue the much riskier process of relicensing the dams.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Governor Newsom’s letter reads, in part:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt 49.5pt 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since time immemorial, the indigenous peoples of the Klamath Basin have stewarded the Klamath River, the second-largest river in California and once the third-biggest salmon producing river on the west coast. It served as a centerpiece of community, culture, and sustenance. Then beginning 100 years ago, construction of dams threatened this way of life, devastated salmon runs and altered the characteristics of the river itself. A century later, the river is sick, and the Klamath Basin tribes are suffering. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt 49.5pt 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We stand at an unprecedented moment of reckoning about our past and, more importantly, our future. In this moment, we have the opportunity and obligation to see</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ourselves clearly and decide whether we are living up to the values that I firmly believe all Californians stand for: equity, inclusion and accountability.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In response to Governor Newsom’s letter, the Karuk Tribe, Yurok Tribe, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations and conservation groups American Rivers, California Trout, Klamath Riverkeeper, Trout Unlimited, Save California Salmon and Sustainable Northwest have issued the following statement of support:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“With every year that passes, Klamath River salmon edge closer to extinction. While we are gratified that PacifiCorp remains willing to talk, we can’t afford any more delays in this process. It’s time for Warren Buffett’s PacifiCorp to do the right thing and allow this dam removal agreement to move forward. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It’s not only the right thing to do, it’s in the financial interests of PacifiCorp’s ratepayers and Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholders. The agreement offers PacifiCorp unprecedented liability protections and $250 million in public funding. Walking away from the agreement will put PacifiCorp ratepayers on the hook for all the risks and liabilities associated with fish kills, toxic algae blooms, lawsuits, and violations of Tribal rights. We urge Warren Buffet and PacifiCorp to end the delays and move the dam removal process forward immediately.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Background</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A 2016 agreement proposed to transfer the dams from PacifiCorp to the non-profit </span><a href="http://www.klamathrenewal.org/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.klamathrenewal.org/&source=gmail&ust=1596237916243000&usg=AFQjCNE0e6M2xWXOs-Aq7J72rXp6oSL-7g" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Klamath River Renewal Corporation</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for purposes of removal. The agreement allows PacifiCorp to transfer the dams and contribute $200 million to the KRRC in exchange for a clean break from the project. However, earlier this month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted conditional approval for the project but required PacifiCorp to remain on the license for the dams until they are removed. PacifiCorp is now threatening to back out on the agreement. Parties to the agreement (including Tribes, conservation groups, fishermen, local counties, California and Oregon) view the FERC ruling as PacifiCorp not getting what it wants, but still getting what it needs – the least cost alternative to relicensing the dams.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Klamath communities that depend on salmon fisheries for economic and cultural survival have campaigned for the past two decades to remove the lower four Klamath dams. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The dams provide no irrigation diversions, no drinking water diversions and no significant flood control benefit</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The dams were built for hydropower but managing the aging structures today costs more than they’re worth.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Declining fish populations have led to burdensome regulations for farmers in the Basin while Tribes have curtailed or cancelled fish harvests for the first time in their histories. Most experts view dam removal as the lynchpin for solving the water crisis that plagues the drought-prone basin almost every year. Commercial salmon fishermen from San Francisco to Coos Bay, Oregon depend on Klamath River stocks, and their industry has been hard hit with restrictions on catch due to declining Klamath River salmon populations. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The plan to implement America’s most ambitious salmon restoration project involves $200 million in financing from PacifiCorp, $250 million that was earmarked in a 2014 California water bond, and creation of the non-profit </span><a href="http://www.klamathrenewal.org/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.klamathrenewal.org/&source=gmail&ust=1596237916243000&usg=AFQjCNE0e6M2xWXOs-Aq7J72rXp6oSL-7g" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KRRC</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to take over the dams and manage the removal effort.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Governor Gavin Newsom’s letter is available in full </span><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ndz8ncdzvv0sny/Governor%27s%20Letter%20on%20Klamath%20River_07-29-2020.pdf?dl=0" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ndz8ncdzvv0sny/Governor%2527s%2520Letter%2520on%2520Klamath%2520River_07-29-2020.pdf?dl%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1596237916243000&usg=AFQjCNFCsCUIiuBA4phXHKgLtI5ZjA9onQ" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. For additional information, or to speak with someone from any of the groups listed in this media statement, please contact Craig Tucker at 916-207-8294 or </span><a href="mailto:craig@suitsandsigns.com" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">craig@suitsandsigns.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or Nina Erlich-Williams at 415-577-1153 or </span><a href="mailto:nina@publicgoodpr.com" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nina@publicgoodpr.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"># # #</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></p></div></div></div><div class="ydpfa166a83hq ydpfa166a83gt" style="margin: 15px 0px; clear: both;"><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></div><div class="ydpfa166a83aQH" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></div></div></div></body></html>