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Weekly Standard ^ | Dec 3, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 12 | ELI LEHRER

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I saw that some days ago.

[wita]

You must be kidding. We have torn out three in Washington and are planning more while they are going after several in Oregon and California, also.

Actually no I wasn’t kidding, nor was I aware that things had progressed so far already.

[backwoods-engineer]

Will not be done. Greenies hate dams, and want to destroy them all. Greenies hate electricity, except for them.

[cripplecreek]

Yeah, I think I'll take his unfounded wild-eyed leftwing speculations over the word of health officials. Right.

What makes him left wing?

The fact is that many if not most of these old impoundments have industrial toxins in the sediment from years gone by. I live downstream from an old Ford plating plant and there's mercury in the sediments of this lake. Its fine as long as its undisturbed.

[Baynative]

When the destruction of the Elwha River dam in western Washington began the liberals celebrated more than when we won WWII. It was almost a revenge atmosphere for them, as if they were getting even with the rest of the population for taking an opposite view from theirs.

I remember thinking; "It would really be something if they care as much for unborn children as they do fish."

During the debate on removal the state department of ecology decided that generating energy from the power of a natural river was neither clean nor renewable!

Elwha Dam Removal

U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., left, shares a laugh with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, right, as they walk across the Elwha Dam following a ceremony to mark the beginning of the removal of the Elwha Dam and the restoration of the Elwha River, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, near Port Angeles, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks,....I like tight harmony.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good narrative....makes sense.