Posted on 07/31/2020 12:17:58 PM PDT by george76
Gov. Gavin Newsom has appealed directly to investor Warren Buffett to support demolishing four hydroelectric dams on a river along the Oregon-California border
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which would be the largest dam removal in U.S. history.
The dams are owned by PacificCorp, an Oregon-based utility that is part of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. conglomerate.
The $450 million project would reshape California’s second-largest river and empty giant reservoirs.
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Newsom supports a 2016 agreement under which PacifiCorp would transfer its federal hydroelectric licenses for the dams to a nonprofit coalition, the Klamath River Renewal Corp., that was formed to oversee the demolition.
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But two weeks ago, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made a decision that could threaten the deal. The agency approved the license transfer on condition that PacifiCorp remain a co-licensee with the Klamath River Renewal Corp.
The agency said it believes the nonprofit is capable of carrying out the project, and it is concerned that the corporation “has limited finances and no experience with hydropower dam operation or dam removal.”
“Costs could escalate beyond the level anticipated and unexpected technical issues could arise. Were the Renewal Corp. to be the sole licensee, it might ultimately be faced with matters that it is not equipped to handle,” the agency said.
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The dams are the southernmost of six built in southern Oregon and California’s far north beginning in 1918 to provide electrical power. They are also part of an irrigation system serving vast farming areas.
The four dams to be demolished lack concrete chutes called fish ladders through which fish can pass to reach upstream spawning areas. Renewing the licenses would require hundreds of millions of dollars in federally mandated modifications, including adding fish ladders.
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You have to pour some water on it.
Thank you.
Some obviously make it. Don’t be obtuse
Eddie twosome Newsom is bilking the tax payers like no other CA governor before him. This is no different, he’s trying to create another pool of public money to loot so he has to leave the total expense of the dams removal open ended.
Hi sasquatch! Good to see you still lurking and posting. Especially on this thread!!!
I don’t know about this dam but the docent at the Coulee dam in WA, told us that the salmon had been in decline before the dam was built. It is apparent that they (the environmentalists ) are looking at the wrong end of the rivers for the fish decline. The declines seem to be be due to development at the mouths of the rivers which dries up the delta and causes a decline in the herring or other small fish that the salmon feed on and which draw the salmon into the rivers.
Or they could just rear down all those town around SanFrancisco Bay and restore the deltas to there previously pristine state. LOL!
humm. three of the most evil entities on the planet conspiring: buffet, newsome, and the US deep state. what could go wrong?
They want you to starve, freeze on the dark.
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