Dams power down in the largest US dam removal

mynorthwest.com ^ | May 28, 2011 | PHUONG LE

[matt1234]

More madness from the ecoNazies.

Salmon is supposedly endangered, but you can buy it in grocery stores 365 days a year here in the Northwest.

[culpeper]

Just can’t keep the environazis happy.

[Dixie Yooper]

If the last of the salmon that had the instinct to swim up this river to spawn, died over 90 years ago, what fish are going to appreciate this?

[org.whodat]

Why did they not follow the law and build the fish ladders?????

[BenLurkin]

Insanity

[org.whodat]

They return to the place of their birth, new egg’s will return to the river, but why they did not do both is strange.

[digger48]

you can buy it in grocery stores 365 days a year here in the Northwest.

I live in the middle of a cornfield in Indiana, and I'm pretty sure that I could find fresh salmon within 10 miles of me 365 days a year too.

[MichaelP]

We don't need the power. We need more of that omega 3...

Mike

[dalereed]

“Why did they not follow the law and build the fish ladders?????”

Raise the damn things in tanks and dam all the rivers!

[ngat]

The spawn of the ones that will now spawn upriver of the dam they are about to remove.

[Cobra64]

We don't need the power. We need more of that omega 3

Don't worry, the administration will conduct a 50 billion dollar study to determine the viability of turning fish oil into fuel.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Well, the liberal view is that dams are bad, dams are bad for the environment, dams don’t generate power in a clean green manner, etc. So dams have to go.

Sadly, this is what happens when liberals are in charge of making policy and making decisions which impact society.

[major-pelham]

So stupid....drive around New England...the United States was founded and built on hydropower whether to turn simple water wheels or turbo generators. Appeasing the unappeasable is not a sustainable strategy.

[w1andsodidwe]

I always remember in Stockton California after an exceptionally wet winter, the Calaveras River was teaming with Salmon. Salmon had never been seen in that river before, so they say. The newspaper interviewed the head of California Fish and Game. He said he had no idea why such a thing would happen. I read the article and my reaction was that the idiot government wonk should be immediately fired.

The myth is that salmon always return to their birth place to spawn, and because of that "religious" belief, there is never any real investigation of facts or allowance for any alternate scenario.

[Cheetahcat]

Idiots,Leading Imbeciles there is no salmon shortage,there is a lack of domestic drilling that needs addressed NOW!

[org.whodat]

That is correct, let's put the trillion dollar sports fishing industry out of business. Crony capitalism at its finest.

[dalereed]

Go soak your worms in the ocean!

[Hardraade]

Power is not needed. Marxism and islam need darkness.

[org.whodat]

http://zebra.sc.edu/smell/nitin/nitin.html

[dhs12345]

Nuclear power? No way!
Coal/Nat Gas? Nope.
Hydroelectric? No.

What's left to allow us to charge our electric cars? Wind/solar? Lol.