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-Great Cultural Revolution

Dams in Calif to be demolished to help salmon

2023-01-02

Here comes the rain.
[CBSnews] PORTLAND, Ore. -- U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's unanimous vote on the lower Klamath River dams is the last major regulatory hurdle and the biggest milestone for a $500 million demolition proposal championed by Native American tribes and environmentalists for years. The project would return the lower half of California's second-largest river to a free-flowing state for the first time in more than a century..
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this was something of an extortion/bribery victory for the Greens. They promoted various regulations which would have cost hundreds of millions of dollars which the Utility could not pay without raising rates and then as a carrot gave the utility some funding contingent on removing the dams-- by the way, Warren Buffet's group owns a lot of the utility.

Posted by:Cloter Whons3732

#11 I live near the Cuyahoga Valley National Park which is great place to total a vehicle if you like deer meat. Within the valley there are a bunch of dams that have not served a purpose for more than a century. They are too expensive to remove and pose a danger to kayakers that don’t know what they are doing. If the California project includes dams associated with bygone mills, I don’t have a problem with their removal. That said, I assume that all projects in California are dumb and corrupt as a default. I lived in California for eight years.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-01-02 20:40

#10 Fish ladders are racist. Or transphobic. Or ...

Posted by: Waldemar the Limber5043 2023-01-02 17:08

#9 Ima wondering why they don't build fish ladders instead?

Posted by: Raj 2023-01-02 16:58

#8 /\ I suspect total destruction is the only viable option.

Posted by: Besoeker 2023-01-02 15:55

#7 Amid continual roving blackouts and the call for electric cars, CA will never survive. But have at it...

Posted by: 49 Pan 2023-01-02 15:53

#6 #3 makes for good fishing
Posted by: 746 2023-01-02 10:39

...If they're endangered, can't fish 'em.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2023-01-02 13:44

#5 Dam the salmon, Gridley, full speed ahead.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-01-02 13:42

#4 How much hydro-electric do those dams produce? How much flood control?

They really hate humanity but won't lead the way by exterminating themselves and their ilk.

Posted by: AlanC 2023-01-02 11:30

#3 makes for good fishing

Posted by: 746 2023-01-02 10:39

#2 Anti-humanity on open display.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-01-02 06:59

#1 Isn't northern California flooding right now? Bet some dams on the flooding rivers would come in handy right now, not to mention more stored water for the annual man-made drought.

Posted by: Waldemar the Limber5043 2023-01-02 02:40

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