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Biden admin quietly developing settlement with groups seeking to tear down key power source
Fox News ^ | November 22, 2023 | Thomas Catenacci

Posted on 12/10/2023 9:19:33 PM PST by george76

'Congress alone has the authority' to breach federal dams, lawmakers write in letter to White House..

The Biden administration is quietly discussing a potentially far-reaching settlement with environmental groups that advocate for tearing down four hydroelectric dams in Washington...

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In the filings, jointly submitted by the federal government and eco groups...

However, the filing failed to detail exactly what conditions were included in the secretive package

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We find it necessary to remind you Congress alone has the authority not only to order the breach of the Lower Snake River Dams, but also exclusive authority to direct the study of breaching or to authorize replacement resources," four House Republicans from the Pacific Northwest led by Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., wrote to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)

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This is statutory fact, and we warn the Administration not to attempt to circumvent that fact through clever wordsmithing," the lawmakers continued, noting they have received a "plethora" of complaints from stakeholders and constituents about the federal government's secretive negotiations on the matter.

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The dams.. main benefit has been their reliable clean energy output. provide about 8% of the state's electricity, enough to serve millions of residents, and have a large total capacity of 3,000 megawatts.

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In addition to the impacts on energy and climate ambitions, industry groups have argued that removing the four Snake River dams would disrupt the economy and harm agriculture exports.

The river system notably feeds the largest U.S. wheat export gateway. Aided by the dams, barges traveling along the Columbia River system carry about 60% of Washington's annual wheat exports. A staggering 40% of the nation's total wheat production, valued at billions of dollars, travels through the river system.

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To: Daveinyork

They lie. They want you to use EVs, smart meters, digital money ... that they will then threaten to turn off to control us.


41 posted on 12/11/2023 2:52:53 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Candor7

The dictator in China is at war with America / has his police stations around the country already.


42 posted on 12/11/2023 2:55:15 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: llevrok

Part of the left’s war on family farmers / releasing Huge, imported Canadian wolf packs , too.


43 posted on 12/11/2023 2:58:53 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Sirius Lee

You have hit the crux of the issue. They want 7 billion of us dead. With the advent of AI and soon, robots, there will be little to no need for all of us ‘useless eaters’.

There are a few ways to achieve that: Mass pogroms, famine/disease, or lower the birth rate dramatically.

Mass Pograms are ugly, can cause true insurrection, and doesn’t look so good in the history books.

Famine and disease at least are ‘blameless’, you can escape accountability and claim it is the result of your opponents policies.

But, see, if I was advising the globalists, I’d tell them the third way is the cleanest, least ugly, and to a small extent, even the most morally just. Introduction of some disease or syndrome that blocks conception worldwide would achieve what they wish, albeit at a slower pace.

I guess they’re just impatient.


44 posted on 12/11/2023 3:10:15 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: george76

Along the same thought process as “you’ll have nothing and love it!”. Shortly they’ll be demanding the dismantling of wind and solar power too because they both disturb the environment. The condor Cuisinart will be the first to go. And the shady solar cells destroying the habitats of the endangered desert scorpion black tip species.

This is the journey upon which we’re embarked. I won’t call it a slippery slope because the term’s been deconstructed out of our vocabulary.

Welcome Orwells 1984. We should have used it as a warning and not as a playbook.


45 posted on 12/11/2023 3:33:10 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Samurai_Jack
Welcome Orwells 1984. We should have used it as a warning and not as a playbook.

Correction: WE used it as a warning. THEY used it as a playbook.

I also note that the various dystopian novels are no longer taught in high school. Say what you will about teachers in the 60's, 70's, and 80's.... but they actually TAUGHT.

46 posted on 12/11/2023 3:49:05 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: cuz1961
this is the “ rewilding” the econatzies have been talking about for decades.

You vill live in zee East and eat zee bugs

47 posted on 12/11/2023 3:51:13 AM PST by Pollard (Stick a fork in the USA, it's done!)
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To: Reverend Wright
The Left has captured every major institution in the country.

The GOPe provides no relevant opposition.

Perhaps because "every major institution" includes the RNC/GOP.

48 posted on 12/11/2023 3:54:23 AM PST by Pollard (Stick a fork in the USA, it's done!)
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To: Lazamataz
You have hit the crux of the issue. They want 7 billion of us dead. With the advent of AI and soon, robots, there will be little to no need for all of us ‘useless eaters’.

There are a few ways to achieve that: Mass pogroms, famine/disease, or lower the birth rate dramatically.

(slow version going on for decades) Abortions, destroy the idea of family, careers over family, jabs, overly processed food, obesity. All lower birth rates.

(fast version) WEF has been telegraphing a cyber attack/virus. The modern world can't function without internet. If it lasted a few months, many would die.

Expect something to keep Trump out and kill off a lot of people at the same time, again.

49 posted on 12/11/2023 4:07:15 AM PST by Pollard (Stick a fork in the USA, it's done!)
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To: george76

Yet the lunatic is allowed to continue on his murderous rampage killing America in just four years.


50 posted on 12/11/2023 4:09:10 AM PST by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.v v ely)
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To: Sequoyah101

FLOOD CONTROL

INSURANCE COMPANIES WILL FLEE


51 posted on 12/11/2023 4:51:14 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: george76

These same groups also oppose nuclear power.


52 posted on 12/11/2023 4:53:11 AM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: george76

To resolve the dam issue, destroy the enviro wackos.

Enviro wackos are just not required


53 posted on 12/11/2023 4:53:34 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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Looks like Wheaties may be a thing of the past.


54 posted on 12/11/2023 5:00:07 AM PST by deport
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To: lightman

“An evil man will burn his own country to the ground to rule over the ashes” - Sun Tzu


55 posted on 12/11/2023 5:32:17 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Nateman

It’s not ‘biden’, and people you know support these actions (friends, family, coworkers).

Without support the chins won’t accomplish d!ck with this strategy.

That’s a facet most people choose to ignore...at our peril.


56 posted on 12/11/2023 5:37:48 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Clutch Martin

It’s a god quote. But Sun Tzu never wrote it.


57 posted on 12/11/2023 5:38:24 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: jonrick46
First, they wanted to knock out one dam. Now it is four dams.

On the contrary, Biden is trying to do the same thing to the Tennessee Valley dams. And I think there are some rumblings about taking down Hoover Dam.

58 posted on 12/11/2023 5:40:05 AM PST by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Nateman

In addition to your excellent list, the riots were turned on and off like a water faucet. Plus there was NO law and order program in place to end the riots and take back control from the rioters. Who told all the PDs to stand down and let it burn? Who told the governors to not call out the guard units?

It was all too “coincidental” and “random.”


59 posted on 12/11/2023 5:41:32 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: jonrick46

They have already destroyed two old, small dams on the Olympic Peninsula.

The Biden Crime Syndicate and Dems are all about destroy, destroy, destroy.


60 posted on 12/11/2023 5:44:11 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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