Posted on 02/20/2024 6:15:40 AM PST by artichokegrower
The Klamath River dams have been unplugged. And with the water that was drained from Copco and Iron Gate Lakes came millions of tons of polluted sediments.
Now the remaining polluted clay-mud sediments that have been deposited on the lake bottoms are in plain view.
The rapid unplanned release of fresh water from the lakes, over a very short period of time, has carried massive amounts of polluted sediments into the main-stem of the Klamath River.
(Excerpt) Read more at siskiyou.news ...
This has turned into a massive fish kill thanks to the Sierra Club.
Salmon runs could have been improved markedly by enforcing fisheries limits on foreign (Asian owned) fish harvesting.
One thing you have to understand about your average “environmentalist” on the street is that they don’t really care about the environment. Not really. They just don’t like people. They don’t care about any actual consequences. Just undam the river, because that’s how it was before people came along.
They listen to NPR or watch Nation Geographic, and they see a cute rare owl, and the whole off human civilization could be damned (no pun) in that moment as far as they are concerned. Only that owl matters. So that owl could be snatched from it’s branch by a falcon and dismembered alive by it’s powerful beak, or eaten alive from the inside out by a parasite, but that’s all okay, as brutal as it is, it’s just nature. But if one tree got feld or one drop of rain water got diverted from hitting the ground, huuuuurrrrrrrrrrr! Someone make a law! It’s not really about the owl. It’s about resenting humanity.
You said it in a nutshell with that post, FRiend...
A good analysis.
And sea windmills that are causing endangered whales to die evidently. They don’t give a hoot about animals- they just want power- power to demand, and power to watch the populace jump sky high when ordered to
Thank you for posting this.
My old neighbors near Hornbrook where this is happening are worried and so sad..you just can’t imagine how awful it is looking at what these unconscious traitors have done to our home. Worst part is being constantly hammered by the imported leftists who tell us how grarefull we should be!
This area almost burned up 5 years ago in the Klamathon fire. 2 years later,30 miles away my community was burned out by Portland anarchistsin the Almeda fire..
There’s no place left for us all to go. My son who is in Hornbrook says the river is black and dead.
Leftist policies have destroyed the wealth of my entire family. I was so sure I had us all protected. It’s all gone...76 years of blood sweat and tears.
Best coverage is Captain Bill Simpson.
I lived 12 years in the beautiful place they just destroyed. We fought the envirofreaks that moved in and promoted this tragedy.
I wonder what those leftist neighbors think now as their wells are destroyed and look out at that hellscape of death.
Like a clogged toilet, needs a good flush. But will take fifty years.
Another good article on the disaster:
https://californiaglobe.com/fl/klamath-dam-removal-its-an-environmental-disaster/
Thank you
I didn’t see that one!!
AuntB, you are here to tell the tale.
The average green idiot may see it that way, but the enviro-lawyers and hardcore activists know that there is hay to be made from maintaining small numbers of endangered animals. Here in Oregon, Barred Owls are outcompeting the Northern Spotted Owl, and the greenies seem fine with shooting the Barred Owls to even the playing field. Also, the Snowy Plover, a shorebird with a huge range, expanded into southern Oregon. The ragged edge of their range presented an opportunity for enviros to protect their nesting grounds. One tactic in this effort is to seed the area with poisoned eggs, to kill skunks and crows that prey on the Plover eggs.
Ultimately, it comes down to controlling vast expanses of land, and human activity on that land.
Spoke with friends near Horse Creek. Karen was literally in tears. The river’s running black. It’s toast. Had a mining claim near Seiad. The fish police managed to ban dredging as the floated sediments were deemed hazardous to fish. Seventeen million cubic yards...No Problem.
You have my prayers.
In the mid 1980’s I got to raft down the Klamath from the base of the damn during a time when they were releasing, so it was both a beautiful and wild ride down the valley. I guess you cant experience that anymore.
The rafting guides were warning even then that the enviro-whacks wanted to tear down the damn. What a disaster looking at the pictures and reading the article. Should this be a warning for all the other damn projects the nuts want to erase?
They want to drain Hetch Hetchy and they think it will restore another Yosemite. What it will do is create an environmental disaster zone.
So after millions spent on environmental studies they engineered a disaster that any first year civil engineer could have predicted.
So after millions spent on environmental studies they engineered a disaster that any first year civil engineer could have predicted.
Breaching O’Shaughnessy Dam would go a long way to get rid of what used to be a wonderful city. Now a cesspool.
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