Opposition to Kiamichi hydro project grows

For more than a year, residents along the Kiamichi River in Southwestern Latimer County and Northeast Pushmataha County have been opposing a state and federal hydro-electric project on the upper Kiamichi River. As it turns out, there were two Texas companies seeking to gain federal and state permits for similar hydro-projects on the upper Kiamichi River basin. Upon the realization that there…