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To: cva66snipe
Maybe we need to start building hydroelectric plants ....

Good luck with that .... saw a story recently where the Obamanites are spending taxpayer money for surveys ... paying people money to fill them out regarding 4 private hydroelectric dam facilities .... people not affected, who know nothing about the dams. In other words, trying to gin up complaints where there are none so they can move in and close them down, remove the dams .... whatever they're going to do. I'm sure if you dig deep enough in the Obama administration sludge, you'll find a dam-hating enviro-whacko worried about some fish or water bug or something.

11 posted on 03/29/2012 5:55:33 PM PDT by MissMagnolia (Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
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To: MissMagnolia
Maybe we need to start building hydroelectric plants ....

Ain't going to happen: the enviro-Nazis have convinced the sheeple that salmon are more important than power or crops. The dam below is one of many being destroyed. The Klamath River dams are threatened, also.

Condit Dam breached: A slow-motion video offers a different view

15 posted on 03/29/2012 6:30:49 PM PDT by CedarDave (Romney: The Etch A Sketch Candidate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6NArPUFLRI)
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To: MissMagnolia
Really hydroelectric is the least efficient of all and the most destructive. I just posted it too give them a taste of what government has been dishing out since The New Deal.

Many people don't know that the first test of the Endangered Species Act was used to try and stop a runaway federal agency called TVA. TVA wanted to build an extension of sorts Ft Loudon Lake called Tellico Lake and they connected via a canal. Tellico Dam does not generate power it has no generators. It simply increased the pool capacity of Ft Loundon Lake. TVA by it's own admission building Tellico Lake was a monetary and energy looser that would not pay for itself.

The opposition too the lake as such wasn't environmentalist but local land owners of prime farm land and sportsman. There was several dams upstream but the river was good Trout fishing water.

A biologist found what they thought at the time was a fish {Snail Darter} common only too that river and that was the how those opposed chose to try and bring an end too TVA's roughshod you'll do as we say or else tactics.

After several court battles the project finally died out so everyone thought. But Sen Howard Baker and Rep John Duncan Sr ran a midnight bill through to fund completion.

What was done after that should anger anyone who believes in property rights. Landowners who had even a small portion of their property touching the TVA high water boundary were forced to sell the entire parcel. Meaning if you had 500 acres and one tenth an acre was lake front TVA got the 500 as well. TVA then sold it to developers for a song. The original landowners had their land sold for many times over what TVA paid and what developers had paid TVA.

19 posted on 03/29/2012 6:50:46 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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